Silly Airships

So airship this week sounds fun! I thought I would throw in some additional challenges for myself this week. the first one was to use a software that I neglect rather often and that is Illustrator along with that challenge I thought I would record the creation of the image as well, so that is am other thing to do is to get that sorted out and edited down.

As you can see its more of a silly go at this type of thing using bright colours to show that and happiness to it as well. Created through the use of shapes and different gradient effects on it. It has been a while since I have last used Illustrator properly but this week been dabbling with it early on and thought I would give it a good shot. Just need to find some magazines I have that have some tutorials for using this software and practice them to get a better hang of it.

I'm Flying High

This week we have a theme to work on. This to to create a bit of a challenge for all the artists involved. This week's challenge is aircraft/ flight. The idea is that the artist has to interpret that however they want. And as long as it is creative, there are no holds barred.

I decided I wanted a little bit of fun with this challenge, so I created a hot air balloon. Which was a lot of fun to make.

It is a little thing I made with paper and wool, reminiscent of the things I made at Primary School. I have name him Joe, and he is currently stuck on my wall. I created a small box out of paper, and the 'balloon' is basically a circle drawn round a CD. The balloon is spray painted, and the basket is coloured with pen. It was all stuck together with double sided tape, where I stuck it on the wall to photograph.

Then, when transferred into Photoshop, I used a photo I had taken of the sky, to use as a background. There was a lot of erasing involved, but it was pretty painless.

I wanted something I could physically make, and with the balloon I achieved that. I did find the task a bit of a challenge at first, because aircraft and the like, isn't something I ever really draw. Which is why, after a passing glance at Art Attack, on Playhouse Disney, I decided to make something. And the whole process was fun, and that is why I create things. For fun. It certainly made things easier once I decided how to make this challenge fun.

See you in a week. :)