I investigated all sorts of avenues for this. Actors, art movements, fashion, inventions - you name it!
A couple of ideas were bound to be popular on the challenge page and I don't think I'd be able to add anything new or different to the collection of beautiful art that was appearing.
So inventions was what I plumped for. Having ruled out sliced bread (clearly a great invention but not very exciting to draw), I went of bubble gum.
Drawn with pen and scanned into photoshop, I then cut and copied and fiddled with the 15 different candies I drew to produce this pattern. All colour added digitally.
I may have got carried away and produced a pattern larger than absolutely necessary!
For this 'Japan challenge', I am tempted to draw a doodle character in a kimono, but for now it is something new.
I don't know much about Japan but I wanted to avoid being too obvious. So I have combined two very obvious Japanese symbols with a Japanese art form.
It is called Notan. It represents light and dark, ying and yang.
Now, I am not very adept at paper cutting AND I couldn't find my best scissors, but here is my best efforts with the time and resources I had this week.
*Whoohooo! In the picks :)
