This drawing illustrates a creature swimming across a bridge into the city of Atlantis. When creating this artwork, I had imagined a story about a man who was being fired from his newspaper job. In this story, he was going to work but was suddenly fired from his newspaper job as a reporter. He was called to write the paper in order to show that he was an employee worth keeping. After he submitted the papers he ended up losing his job but found his happiness from writing as a result. In my drawing, I incorporated parts of the story by adding newspaper buildings, newspapers, and buildings representing the city of Seattle, where the story takes place.
Adobe Illustrator allowed me to display my creativity through artwork, and while it may have been only my first time using the program, near everyday use helped expand my skills with the Illustrator. In my creature, I included parts of an eagle, giraffe, dolphin, cougar, and scorpion. The eagle was demonstrated by a beak that was positioned on the side of the cougar head. The neck was drawn as the neck of a giraffe and was connected to a dolphin tail. Lastly, there are scorpion claws that are drawn to connected to the stomach of the creature. My color choices included red, brown, black, and grey. My initial drawing was not going to be a monster, but after analyzing the finished creature it had a monster look to it so I decided to use that as my theme. The characteristics of the creature are confident, tall, trustworthy, outgoing, independent. For my background, I chose the setting of a bridge going into the backdrop of an underwater city, specifically Atlantis. Some buildings are styled in the design of waves and sunken ships. This was drawn with a one-point perspective, and it is clearly evident in the bridge that leads to the city. If given the opportunity to try drawing the image again, I would focus on the creature and making it seem threatening and dangerous.
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