Week 6 - #2

Finally, my iPad drawing of the fairy queen in the fairy glen is finished! Only 30 hours later! This week was tedious as I had the task of filling in the patterns of the foreground bushes and grass/dirt ground. I ended up not using my photo reference very much for this task as the photo only offered solid colors and I know for an etching I need to use patterns. I decided to add pure black shadows to the bushes/flowers in the foreground because I felt I had to include a few more instances of pure black to match the door to the fairy burial mound and the celtic cross design. I felt this gave the composition its final touches.

I am very pleased with the end result of this drawing, I am proud of myself for making it more stylized than the original photograph reference because my whole artistic career I have been hyper focused on making things photorealistic. I just knew that that technique wouldn’t serve for this project, and I had to learn from the historical examples of etchings using line drawings.