Sketch 8- Combophoto
I really enjoyed browsing Stephen McMennamy’s gallery of combo-photos. His artistic combinations are made in a seamless manner that almost trick the eye and brain. Each piece is unique, satisfying, and very fun. One of his photos had bones involved which sparked my idea for this assignment. At first I thought I would make pencils the bones in a cartoon skeleton image. That initial idea posed a challenge as skeleton images on their own have tons of details that I would not be able to match even with different sizes of long pencils. So, the X-ray idea came to mind. For some reason I also began to think pretzel rods would be more fun than pencils. It was challenging to cover the original X-ray in this cartoon image and even more difficult to shape, size, and angle each pretzel to make up a rib cage. I was not able to add other bones and details; I stuck with the bare minimum. Without professional tools, I also was unable to crop the pretzel rods perfectly as background space is shown. In general, however, I definitely appreciate the simplicity and playfulness of my final product for this combo-photo sketch assignment.