I create original art with my positioning. I didn't have a representative theme behind being behind the bookshelves, but I hadn't seen it before and I thought it'd look interesting. Presented with google results entailing 26,700,000 results, I couldn't find anything similar. It isn't particularly symbolic but I'm confident in saying that I had neither thought of nor seen something like it before making it.
I developed my art skills in using the tortillian. (I'm likely spelling that wrong, I've only heard it used in spoken dialogue thus far.) This would be my first time using the device. Overall I'm fond of it. The ability to make a uniform shade across an area without resorting to manual scribbling is helpful, thought the inability to sharpen or hone the point in any way limits its effectiveness in smaller, tighter areas. I solve problems with my use of coloring on the books. With the original photograph the backs were bright white because of the flash of the camera that took the picture used as a frame of reference. If I were to make it more realistic you'd see nothing but the silhouette of something vaguely resembling books thanks to there being no nearby light sources, reducing it to a series of black boxes. I decided to take something of a central path. I varied the colors of the papers and covers to give them a kind of independence from each other but kept a buffer shadow between each book. The tiered shadow on the top of the middle book leading into the significantly brighter back is unrealistic and would've seemed jarring were it only described in words, though upon the drawing's completion I'm rather happy I did it. Darkening the back would've made the center book feel out of place, and if I had the rest follow suit the books would be reduced to boring silhouettes. This has been my favorite project as of yet.
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