I wanted to challenge myself and work with more detailed backgrounds as it's something I don't practice very much and should, specifically with interiors! But I also wanted to keep an element of the symbolic and surreal, in the hope that it would make the illustration less obvious.
My biggest struggle was presenting the multiple themes of loneliness, competition and working into one image. One point that the article interestingly makes is that loneliness is not necessarily caused by technology, as many current articles like to point out, and I found it hard to represent the idea of 'working' without it looking like someone was attached to the technology itself rather than the work behind it. I also struggled to present the idea of competitiveness- an activity involving multiple people whilst also portraying the isolation of loneliness. Shamefully, I ignored this theme in favour for others instead, for lack of time.
I would sometimes use the same theme or idea in different dimensions, to see which they suited better. Also, on occasion I would create two or more ideas I liked in one dimension, but unable to use more than one idea in one composition I would see if one could fit to another composition. I found working to specific dimensions useful. The restraint acted as a starting point to fit my ideas around. Without them more time would have been spent working out my own dimensions when with this the choice had already been made.
I made almost all of my roughs in pencil, with little regard to media or colour scheme. Using pencil meant I was able to quickly capture ideas but now I will have to experiment with media and colour as a separate task.
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