Talked to my mom abit about my project and she told me more about why we have potted plants around the house near door or at the window. “Different plants are for warding off spirits or to balance the energy of the house,” she said. I got onto the idea of creating a balance in my motifs.

Thus, I spent a bit of time researching into which flora or fauna had superstitions attached to them, and the shortlisted animals/plants are as follow:

Unlucky/Other world animals: Raven, Moth, Black cat, Snake
Lucky plants: Money plant, Snake plant, Jade Plant

First, I found photos online to copy its form. To achieve the images, I printed them out on A4 paper and traced the outline and basic shapes, then adding on my own textures and fine lines as inspired by Mazzoni’s drawings. Next, I scan them into my computer at 400 dpi and images trace the files to edit and clean up the lines. This whole process was to retain a hand drawn effect, but also making it easy to clean up the images.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also wanted to experiment with more textures than just lines and managed to come up with a few gray swatches using a water tub, gauche, some paper, and alot of testing. Here are the results:

 

They don’t look much, but with a bit of cleaning up and photo editing etc, these are a few works I’ve come up.

           

 

(Post to be finished)