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When I started this project my motivation was to create art that contained different expressions of culture. My problem was, how was I going to combine things and make them connect in a way that people would actually even care about it. So I thought about holidays and how to make them come alive. Then I talked to one of my friends, Sabrina and she said something about cooking. It was as if we got the idea at once to combine her recipes with my illustrations, just to add some zest to it, in the means of pushing it further. As a result of wanting to create illustrations I spent about twenty hours of drawing and fourteen hours of editing, it wasn't so tedious all the time.
These illustrations were a year long process. My senior project was to create something that I would be proud of at the end of the year. I chose to create illustrations to accompany recipes with a friend of mine. As individuals our projects must be able to stand on it's own, so in this viewing you will only see the drawings I drew. My first idea what to create a book that involved different culture and traditions. For each month there are different holidays or traditions around the world that people do not know about, my fascination was to combine them in one publication. I draw these images in a 9 by 12 sketch book with a pencil and then edited them in photo shop to make them black and white. Some of there images were from the internet because there were certain images I that had to be drawn to accompany a particular tradition. For the month of March I had to draw the Welsh Dragon, I could not draw another dragon that was not the symbol of the Welsh. Even though some of the drawing had to be drawn exactly from the tradition or holiday, some of the drawings I drew from my mind that I felt went will with each page.
These illustrations were a year long process. My senior project was to create something that I would be proud of at the end of the year. I chose to create illustrations to accompany recipes with a friend of mine. As individuals our projects must be able to stand on it's own, so in this viewing you will only see the drawings I drew. My first idea what to create a book that involved different culture and traditions. For each month there are different holidays or traditions around the world that people do not know about, my fascination was to combine them in one publication. I draw these images in a 9 by 12 sketch book with a pencil and then edited them in photo shop to make them black and white. Some of there images were from the internet because there were certain images I that had to be drawn to accompany a particular tradition. For the month of March I had to draw the Welsh Dragon, I could not draw another dragon that was not the symbol of the Welsh. Even though some of the drawing had to be drawn exactly from the tradition or holiday, some of the drawings I drew from my mind that I felt went will with each page.