Right!
Over the past few months I have been working on a very big project in college.
I wrote the project brief myself, it can be downloaded here if you’re interested.
The basic overview is this;
I, as you know, am a huge fan of vector art and create a lot of it.
Vectors are fantastic because you can make them any size without losing quality as you resize them.
With this in mind; bugs are small! If I vector bugs and make them big, that’s just…kinda dumb really, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Anyways it turned out very well!
I started off with a practice vector;

I took plenty of photos of bugs, thanks to one of the college life models. He brought in several boxes of his perserved insects and arachnids for me to photograph.
I then moved on to moths pretty swiftly, as moths are amazing.
I started with this moth:

I didn’t take the photo I used, so I couldn’t use this vector in my final designs.
These are the three designs I decided on in the end:

For several reasons I didn’t use the third vector, as is, in my display. Firstly, it was far too expensive to get three A2 canvases printed.
Secondly it didn’t FIT.
Instead I decided to create three posters to display beneath my other two canvases, allowing me to incorporate my third moth.
These are as follows;

I still didn’t finish here, though. I developed these even further and ended up with this:

I am rather pleased with these.

I cut out several copies of some of the moths from this;

It was tedious and I almost stabbed myself with scissors several times due to despair.
FINALLY though I finished and I pinned them (in perserved-moth style) to the exhibition board!

Here’s how it looks:

THE END.

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