Background
It started out as something that you draw to pass the time waiting for dinner to be ready - and as everybody told me I should finish it, I did The name comes from a similar piece I did at school, hence the appended Mk2 (Mark: two) - unfortunately, that somehow got lost.
Technique
This was done on an ordinary piece of A4 paper with my daughter's crayola crayons - those are really awesome! I just regret that I didn't use some quality paper, as it shows a lot in the grainy texture... Also, it is clearly visible that the top part of the drawing is the starting point, as it is not as refined as the bottom in which I had perfected the technique of filling the shapes (and had moved to using a glass surface to lay the paper on). In the whole, it took me about 6 hours to complete on and off through one week. Finding the shapes and especially coloring them with the 7 available colors and making sure the same never touch wasn't that easy. There is only the sun in the upper right corner where I did not abide by that rule because it just looks better
Thanks, I'm glad you like it I have started trying out a few techniques to do something similar in Illustrator - quite a bit more complex, but I'm doubtful as to the outcome: sometimes you just can't top the things you do spontaneously like this piece... Let's see and find out!
I love this style and the white border really helps set the shapes apart. The color choices you made are nice as well, I am not sure I would have thought of using the brown the way you did, but it really helps bring the yellow and orange down so they are not so loud.
Yes indeed, crayons are awesome - except that due to their size I had to sharpen them quite a lot to be able to draw the borders... I love their texture and feel. I tried to use well balanced colours, but the yellow was too bright - I had to draw over it slightly with orange to bring it down, and then when I scanned it it was bright yellow again That's the only color I had to post-edit.
they have those new crayola stick things I have been meaning to try they look like they might hold a point better. The crayola colored pencils are also pretty decent the only problem is they don't have alot of variety.
Yellow can be tricky to work with it turned out all right though.
I have been to a big shop in germany a while ago where they had a whole floor crammed with pencils, crayons and the like. It was like paradise There are a lot of things I would like to try out and if I had the money I would probably claim that entire floor for myself
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I love this style and the white border really helps set the shapes apart. The color choices you made are nice as well, I am not sure I would have thought of using the brown the way you did, but it really helps bring the yellow and orange down so they are not so loud.
Thanks for the nice comment!
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Yellow can be tricky to work with it turned out all right though.
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