Going into today’s workshop, I had no vision of what I wanted my final DIY illustration to look like. I ended up using this time to play around with different images through collage, with no end goal besides just having some fun and spurring the creative process of thinking of an idea for my final illustration. I ended up making this:

My first thought after re-examining my collage was that there is tons of white space on the page, which is mostly a product of not “finishing” (although I didn’t really have a plan of what to put in the white space). It was fun to look through the older magazines (I think they were called “ideas”?). Most of the images I cut out are from those magazines–I really liked the older more pop-art style of them, but I also added some random images from various advertisements. I think I had the most fun with the image of the people staring (to the right). The image came from an Easter Church scene, and I though it was pretty funny/creepy how they were all just staring in the same direction. I found some flowers that matched the coloring from the following page, and I decided to cover some of the faces in the crowd with flowers. This wasn’t really for a specific reason/meaning but I just thought it looked cool. I think overall I had a fun experience with collage, although I probably won’t use this in my final project,  because it wasn’t really inspired by a story about play.