CDHGraphicDesign

I’m at the scary part of my project, where I feel more insecure about my talents and choices. I Love colors and working with colors, but my strongest side when it comes to colors is when I use acrylic paint. I know how to blend and how to make it harmonic.

For this project I went out of my comfort zone and choose markers. Im now asking myself:

“why, why did you do that?”, well I guess I have a need to challenge my self and evolve.

To do things that im not 100% comfortable with gives me a thrill. Also, it sometimes gives me stomach ache.

When I first started with the markers I felt like this was going the right way, and then I got to a point where the colors did not blend the way I wanted them to. Also I started this project on a type of paper who is more of a sketch type of paper and not a multimedia type. Multimedia papers are thicker and can stand a lot more.


Here you can see how the markers did not blend very well.
Had I used color pencils or paint it would have been easier to make it blend harmonically.

I have to be careful with this thin type of paper and not ruin my work. After practicing a lot with the Kamvas lately I find myself looking for the “regret” button every time I do something I wish to erase. But with real pencils I do need my eraser and it can make awful marks on the paper.

After sitting outside for a while yesterday wondering how to fix this, make this illustration as good as I want it to be with all the colors . I decided to ask for help. I wanted to ask in the forum at our learning platform, but I didn’t bring my Mac outside. So, I contacted my good friend who is awesome with markers and colors. I call her coloring-genius, because she is.

She helped me a lot, with brainstorming around my next move and that really helped me. That’s a real good friend, right there.

We actually met while studying healthcare together, and she was my solid lab partner. Thank you, Kjersti. For always being there, helping – even if it is to draw blood sample or coloring a digital forest.

So, after writing this post im sitting down to really get in to fixing my project with good ideas and hopefully get it right.

Due- date 29/8 10:00 am, and I need to write a report as well. I want to deliver in good time, but my perfectionist-self might make this a close call.


“Working by the lake”


Best regards, CDH