At the beginning of the project I given a letter that I had to draw in a creative way, I was given the letter Y. To establish this idea I first made a list of words that began with Y. I then drew 20 thumbnail sketches to give me an idea of how my final would look. At first I played around with the idea of doing a ying-yang, but I didn't like how I drew it. I then decided to draw a tree branch in the shape of a Y. The idea was complemented by my peers, so I decided to begin my final on such. To represent the tree branch as a Y, I first looked up pictures of tree branches, and found one that resembled a Y. I then copyed the structure of the branch, and added smaller braches on it to make the Y look less like a letter but like a actual tree branch. The most challenging aspect of this project was deciding on the background. At first I wanted to make it just black, but that would not emphasize the letter as much. So I decided to make the background a light brown color, and to make the branch pop by highlighting it green. I used chalk pastel for the background, and color pencil for the branch. Im satisfied with my project, because I think it appropriately emphasizes my letter while making it not look like a just wrote out the letter. If I could change anything I would change the background color to a shade of purple, because I don't like the vibe that is represented with the shade of brown.
