Hello Skillshare,

I wanted to create some simple collages based on the theme of gardening. These illustrations are aimed at a lifestyle magazine and a general article about tips for gardening.

I started with the lists below.

I'm interested to see how my collage style which is mostly hands on (not digital as I'm old school) would work with this brief. I like decorative illustrations so this is a challenge illustrating nouns in a straight-forward manner but you can see I've tried to make worms and seeds decorative.

I have dipped in and out of the videos so not sure if I've followed the brief to the letter, I've made up my own sizes and formats that might be typical of an editorial.

I did a quick search on the internet and have illustrated these tips so far:

The importance of good soil

Sowing seeds

To pot or not?

Plant Food/Feed

This is the project so far...

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I have revised the noun spots and completed these six quite quickly and tried to keep the fun there in making them and I also set myself a tight deadline so I didn't overwork them. The nouns are worms, dandelion, plant food, watering can, grass, potted plant. I am also experimenting with lettering at the moment in my illustrations and haven't found a way of doing it that I'm happy with but I'm trying cut out letters at the moment to reflect the playful collage look.

I'm now working on part two the concepts...

I found the concept spot illustrations challenging to keep them simple and get the idea across. I found it was good to set myself a tight deadline and see what I came up with. I realise that I didn't plan this project that well, colours, sizes etc. so not sure if the full set look like they belong. I learnt that it is quite hard to keep a cohesive look, I had to edit some of mine as colours and backgrounds didn't look right together.

I wanted to see if my collage style suited editorial, I think it can but I do need more practice in working on editorial briefs so will do some more projects.

I also realised I have a big fear of illustrating people, I am going to set myself a project on that. I managed to avoid it but I don't like the dismembered floating hand.

It was a great project to challenge myself and I allowed myself to experiment with textures and paper collage.

I forgot to say what I'm illustrating:

1. Plant for wildlife/bees

2. Hydrate plants in the morning

3. Deadhead fading blooms

4. Move potted plants into shady areas out of hot sun

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