Stencil

For my cover stencil I chose a heart. Although the final product turned out extremely crappy, I was more satisfied with the fact that I know how to create a stencil now. I think what happened was that I was not applying enough pressure with the x-acto knife so I had to manually tear off the stencil in some areas. I chose the heart as the cover art because I did not want make my first stencil to be something complicated. It was my first time learning about the whole idea of "bridges" and "rivers" so I was very confused. I did not want to have a hard time in class, so I picked something very basic in order to help myself in understanding the technique first before I tried anything more intricate. I saw some students chose designs that looked very detailed and big and although their final work turned out to be tremendously beautiful, I felt that I was not ready to tackle on such complicated designs. I chose to color the stencil in with gold because I feel that gold is the type of color that practically screams for attention since it is bright and alluring. However, once I rolled the color on my sketchbook, the design did not give justice to the attractiveness of the color. If I was more familiar and felt braver, then I would have chosen something more meaningful. So I do not feel very proud of my design but I do feel proud that now I am familiar with the process and I would be more willing to choose something that is not as basic as a heart.