Senior Square

What role does persistence play in refining and developing your ideas?
What was successful about your project and what needed more work and WHY?

     Even if an idea doesn't get used the first way I thought about it, it usually somehow ends up in the finished piece in some form. It's just kinda a balance of the evolution of the idea and figuring what works and what I like. Certain parts I become sure of, then they become like anchors that the rest of the piece falls into place around-like the koi, lettering, and blossoms here.  

     Persistence comes into play with not giving up on an idea or the project altogether. There are certain points in this project that I would've wanted to give up(even just after sketching the first couple things-the large paper is a little daunting). Sometimes the colors weren't what I exactly had in mind or somethings got switched around. I wanted the corner by the koi fish to be hectic looking and colorful. Instead of being saturated patterns of color, it started becoming more pastel-which worked.

      Persistence is just working with it until its finished-even if you aren't liking it just to see the finished product isn't as bad as I thought it'd be. . . And not getting lazy about it.

I wish I had figured out a better color for poor, little Philbert(the tiny dinosaur). Sticking to my original idea of keeping the corner the koi is in more geometric/patterns might've looked neater and be a little easier to look at. Finding a way to keep Anthofer from blending into everything else would've been great, too, so it could be more easily seen. With a few references, the saxophone actually looks pretty good.

I really like my leaves/blossoms and the lettering. The most effort probably went into them and the lettering. There are 17 blossoms for the year I graduate and three left white. I also like how 'Jo' turned out(I hide my middle name it). Most of it, I'm pretty happy with and is related to my life. Somehow.