A subjective drawing

The aim of this exercise was to produce an illustration that illustrates an object, whilst highlighting a quality of the object. For this exercise I chose a packet of polo mints and wanted to highlight their ‘mintiness’. For the final illustration I combined collage using found materials with markerpen and fineliner.

I began by creating a moodboard to investigate different materials, which included, plastics, found papers from magazines and wrapping papers, different paints and pens on different papers. I gradually developed the idea of having a silhouette of the polo tube on a piece of green wrapping paper decorated with mint leaves in pen. I used tracing paper for the silhouette as I wanted to be able to see the decoration underneath. Finally once I’d completed the image I liked the idea of the leaves going beyond the edge of the image in order to highlight them further.

I like the simplicity of the final piece however, I think that it is a little boring. I think that it might have been more interesting to choose a different shape for the background block of colour and also to vary the size of the drawn leaves for example by making some of them bigger.