Illustration finals

These are the final paintings for illustrations that I painted. I first of established a dew designs that I could make, which lead me to what you see below. The yellow painting of the heart, is my absolute final design. I originally wanted to base the designs off of a name called "hole in your soul" however after designing the design with the monster-human-like-creatures and the then creating some other designs I my sketchbook, I soon changed that to a wider variety so I didn't 'stump' my thought process. I had sivved through a lot of designs and thoughts to come to this point, but I decided to stay with the concept of "whole thinking with an open mind."

 

 Before actually completing a final piece, I had an idea whilst falling to sleep and quickly sketched it out. This is the quick sketch I did on my iPad for convenience reasons. I thought that by combining painting and pointilism, it would make it contrast well and then the heart in the centre to be an indication to always see the possibilities that you can achieve.

This was my design before I had finalised it. I decided to paint the back yellow because it would be pleasant and radiant to almost represent "radiate love." I used card to raise the heart to represent its importance and then the eye-hole parallel dimension to show the importance of looking into your own heart, finding what you'd really like and to peruse it. The parallel dimension is to show that there's always multiple sides to something, endless possibilities and it's important to look into that. 

I used pointillism because that's my own little passion, which is another reason I did painting in the background. The painting is with acrylic paint, with Jackson pollock style splatters go show "getting stuck in" to life and making the most. I wanted this piece to be very enthusiastic, simple-yet-exciting.

Here is a painting I did whilst trying to figure out what I wanted to do for a style. I originally named the piece "gift from nature" because you are indeed that. Being yourself and remembering you're a blessing is definitely something this piece represents, which was the intention! I used acrylic paint to complete the piece and I still have the parallel dimension there to represent always looking at life in a different light.

I completed this design by using paint and it was when I was planning on perusing a compilation of paintings to represent radiating love and passion. I wanted his one to show embracing life as it is; nature filled and an adventure. The flowers and leaves are built up slightly by using messy acrylic paint. This piece was very fun to do and you can tell by the paint strokes that I enjoyed doing it greatly. 

This photo is slightly before finishing which the only difference is that there is an eye in the the centre. This was an automatic painting, one that I completely just painted almost mindlessly. This is only of my favourites; it shows love and compassion between individuals. If you look closely, it subtly shows two people gripping each other passionately, which my aim was again showing radiating love. Radiating compassion and love is also shown by the yellow that is being released from the two individuals, which I did to show how being compassionate can impact another's life and those around you positively. 

These are my final paintings. They all represent radiating love. However, I changed my final (the yellow tear drop shaped piece) to a tear drop because I represented love, passion and life through the others, all how everything is positive, but nothing about being sad. I thought, by changing the final of this into a tear drop that it would show that, even the happiest of times can have an unhappy ending. But by contrast I thought that it would show that you can pick yourself up again and find the balance between the two. I also added the eye in the one with people because it shows seeing the positive in life. 

If I was to do this again I would do the final on a much bigger scale and I would definitely consider doing something more like the two people again as that is one of my favourite pieces and I think it shows more of what in trying to represent.