Bermudaful!

This is easily one of the most tedious pieces of art I’ve ever done. As a student I was broke… So I went to Staples, bought the cheapest cardboard box with a lid. Next I went to Home Depot, bought a piece of acrylic and a cheap light. I put it all together and made a light box. Something about tracing images by taping pieces of paper to a window just wasn’t cutting it anymore – I wanted to work at night!

So, I tediously traced a posterized aerial photo of Bermuda with my makeshift lightbox and 0.05 point fine liner. Next I scanned the tediously traced paper and turns out it wasn’t all that tedious. I spent hours… and I mean hours… making it even more detailed in Adobe Illustrator. Once I was satisfied that I couldn’t possibly make this outline any more detailed, the shading started. Hot swapping between the color picker and fill tools in Illustrator the obscene amount of black lines slowly came to life.

Fast forward a solid year and we had a fully colored piece! (there was a lot of stopping and going on this project) But I wasn’t done there. I came across Poster Jack and decided to (now less broke and no longer a student) to print this as an acrylic print.

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