I was really stuck and hated this image I made for The Witch of Blackbird Pond cover before I went away to France. I'm happy I stopped working on the concept because I would've never foreseen the fact that I would go away and come back inspired by the photographs of Erwin Blumenfeld and Man Ray.
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It's been a weird summer. Everyone in my family has been growing. We each have our own way of keeping our feet on the ground and our head in the clouds, but I've never seen us all do it at once, and in different directions.
I wanted a new and creative photo involving words for my about page on All the Words of a Language site (you know my regular website). With a white board marker, my lil lil sis had written on her mirror the lyrics to the McDonald's filet of fish commercial so she could remember it and I thought, "mmmm I LIKE THAT!" I put my own twist on it; write lyrics from The Shins and bring the mirror outside (wow I'm so clever!). It was a lot better in concept than in execution. 
These suck because: I didn't consider texture. There's too much. Desaturating couldn't even help that. There's not enough white space to balance the darks. There's not enough darks at all. A simpler background might have helped the tension in texture of the dress and grass but that mirror was too heavy to move. Speaking of which, perspective was tricky to play with because of the reflections in the mirror. Texture then created no contrast in color. In desperation I went blur tool happy in photoshap. Personal Lesson: photoshap can't save crap because it was crap to begin with. Balance texture with white space (don't take white space as literal white space). Try again.
I'm Racheal Anilyse! Art is how I communicate. It's my language. I'm an illustrator, graphic designer + indie publisher.
I am the creator of Underground Art School, I am a contributor on the art + illustration blog Pikaland and I am currently working on a career in children's books.
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