thistle flower arrangement

Alright, I’m starting off this blog with some digital art I did recently.

On the left we have the original photograph that I took and then to the right we have the digital drawing version that I did in Photoshop a few days later.

Honestly, I love it. I love how the olive oil bottle turned out as well as the flowers. I think I need to do something with the background though… It’s fine and all but it seems very plain. Maybe I could change the colours… Or add more details…. maybe some texture to the surface, make it into a wooden table… some wallpaper or brick for the background… we’ll see.

I’m also thinking that on it’s own it’s fine, but, if I isolated the bottle and flowers, picked it up and placed it into a scene… I think it would really thrive. I can just imagine a room filled with stacks of books, papers and pens everywhere, maybe a half-finished plate of food balanced on the arm of an armchair in an office, all very Ghibli-esque… with this flower and ‘vase’ resting on an office table or somewhere else in the scene… yeah… I’m liking this the more I think about it!

On another note, I’m thinking that that top thistle would make a lovely print, a small one, to get me back into the swing of printmaking again.

(I know the drawing itself is not perfect. If you zoom in you can see where I did not quite colour in between the lines and where I’ve done rough lines rather than precise and perfect ones. But I think imperfections like this make a piece of art very human. In a time where AI is growing in power and it has become more difficult to differentiate between computer-generated and real-person-generated art, I think ‘flaws’ should be encouraged. It shows that a human made this —it’s real. Even if I did draw it on a computer.)