The Days of 2019
Each year, I create a piece of art to tell a story about my life throughout that year and further grow my audience on social media. For 2019, I wanted to use a new medium and create something animated to show the passage of time. I decided to experiment with markers and illustrate what I did every day to create a time-lapse animation.
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I created an outline of myself in the center of the page to serve as a master copy to trace for each drawing. It traveled thousands of miles with me throughout the year and sustained more wear and tear than any of my other drawings.
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Keeping myself in the center of the frame for each drawing proved to be an interesting constraint. I ensured each drawing still felt balanced by providing more detail in the background where there weren't colored figures present.
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On some days, I experimented with contrasting values by shading the background with a solid color.
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