Man-Cave Hybrid Drawing

This is a rough sketch of a small imaginary room with rudimentary elements such as the door, window, couch, and coffee table. From here I scanned the picture into Adobe Illustrator.

While in Adobe Illustrator I traced the key elements using the Wacom tablet and included the walls without the drafting grid.

This is the actual trace, minus the grid, that I used as a template in Adobe Photoshop and placed found images.

I retrieved different images from the internet based on a triadic color scheme of red, green, lt blue, and warm lt orange brown. The result is the hybrid drawing with a man-cave theme; notice the unicorn in the background?

My Process of Abstract Thinking

After studying Dale Chihuly I chose an orange lily for my inspiration object because his work made me think organic and in color. The line and structure he uses is wild and free, yet somehow captured and tamed for art.
I began my analysis by identifying the principles and elements of design in the orange lily that are innate in nature. What follows in consequetive posts are the processes by which I derived the concept of an abstract seat and shelter for a person.

The second object analysis became a more formal drawing of my inspiration object complete with transverse and sagittal sections of the orange lily.

I sketched out what I took to be the components of Dale Chihuly's artwork and considered how I could relate these same concepts in my abstractions.

Replace a Crayon for a Paint Brush

This is my first Adobe Illustrator picture and, apparently, an attempt at art. I'm not sure which effect would be worse, using the paint brush to color in all the minute details of the barn or make silly circles and rays out of the wagonwheel gate then proceed to tell everyone that I'm a cucumber. It's all pretty juvenile, but we all gotta start somewhere.