Personal Development: 30 Day Challenge - Day 14

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Coming up to day 14 and the prompt was ‘time’ considering I had already created an hourglass for one of my prompts I decided to create a more literal concept, designing a pocket watch.

Initially I had trouble creating the numerals so that they followed the circular frame correctly, but overall I am really happy with how this design turned out. I found by leaving an edge of highlight between the areas of shadow on the left hand side, it created a much more realistic perception of depth within the clocks frame. I shall try to remember this within my future designs to help ensure they are as effective as this design.

I really enjoyed the process of creating this illustration, however if I were to repeat this in the future I would love to have explored the inclusion of some form of chain protruding out of the oval background, as I feel this would help create a much more fluid design, although I still like the illustration without this component.

I really like my choice of colours for this design as well as I wanted to create a slightly aged appearance which I feel I managed to achieve by using a slightly rustic / aged gold theme. This worked really well with both the object and the theme as it implies that time is endless and ageless.

I am extremely proud of how many days I have managed to complete so far, so often I become distracted and don’t end up completing these types of challenges but having almost made it halfway I wanted to take a moment to appreciate my dedication and strive for improvement.

I feel this challenge, although focused on a particular style of illustration, has helped me in a variety of ways as I have had to discover how to draw instantly without using black outlines as a guideline, as well as having to come up with interesting themes and concepts and many more. I would like to continue with these types of challenges in the future should I manage to complete this one as I feel it has helped me in my traditional skill set. I would love to explore a more environmental based challenge as this is something I definitely haven’t focused on before. I feel my illustrations often appear like spot illustrations rather than completed designs as I don’t utilise environments to further develop my concepts, which I would like to work on moving forward.

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