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Yesterday after talking to a few tutors, I have started to draw the ideas into a bigger scale. I didn’t really get what is further development until I followed tutor’s suggestion and scaled the thumbnail. Some problems appear when I draw them on A4 paper. I have to consider the type of line I want: Sketchy? Thicker or keep it thin? Style of image? Some part that wouldn’t be noticed when it is in thumbnail size. And I have to consider the balance between the image and the space left on the T-shirt. As suggested, I have catalogued my ideas into 3 ranges:

Range 1: It is a group of natural objects. Trees, sprout, cloud, and dragonfly. Drawing on a plain paper, I try not to make it too sketchy, in a way that I haven’t done much. On the side there are also some different styles ad forms that could replace the main ones. The trees are too big in the beginning, then it is too small. The two in the middle are more appealed. My friend says that with a smaller image, it looks better when it is on the side instead of centre. So sprout could also be scaled again or placed away from centre. It could also be placed on a pocket if there is one. With the cloud I tied harder to thicken and complete the line, considering the style that TLC has is thicker. (I very like its presentation that the out line is think and even, the shading is drawn with thinner line. ) I am not really satisfied with the dragonfly when it is bigger…so I drew twice. Then I noticed that the reflection on the water also need to be clarified since the design will be hand screen printed.

: Tree 1

: Tree 2. This one is more appealed than the smaller one

: Tree 3

: Tree 4

: Sprout

: Cloud

: Dragonfly 1

: Dragonfly 2

Range 2: It is a range of landscape related images. I tried a few styles on the waterfall, but eventually go for the second one. Although the outline here is built with drawing repeatedly, I suppose the line would be dense black line. The bicycle between the coconut trees is appealed because that it tells a sense of “there is people but yet is not.” Here I also have to figure out how the drop shadow will be presented. The starry sky seems to be difficult as well (I couldn’t do it well with a thin pen).

: Waterfall 1. This is actually just a warm up before I started drawing

: Waterfall 2

: Waterfall 3. One of the tutor prefers this one. It seems easier to focus on the centre-the waterfall. Because the line around the centre is sharper, and the objects that is closed to us doesn’t seems to be focused.