When I started the first thing that came to me was time, time is always moving forward. So my first element was the clock face. I didn't was just a digital or watch style face so I looked to clock towers to use in my illustration. With the clock face figured out I wanted to explore other every day symbols we see that tell us to move forward. The yellow arrows painted on the roads was my next element followed by the fast forward button arrows. Which brings us to the first step of the design, rough line work.
As the clock face was the first thing to come to me I wanted it to be the stand out element. To accomplish this I made it my darkest element and used 6B graphite to colour it in.
At this point I realized that I didn't want the clock face to be covering all of the other elements in the design so I took a needable eraser and pulled off a layer of the graphite where the fast forward arrows intersected with the clock. Then I started to add some colour to my shapes.
For my colour scheme I decided to use the yellow for the road arrow and a blue for the fast forward arrows so that I could combine the two to use green for my back ground element.
For my back ground element I wanted to use a repeating green arrow because direction signs all over the world use the green arrow to tell which way we should proceed forward. The fun part of this is that by measuring out the arrows so that they are uniform in both size and spacing once the final rendering is complete we will be able to see a contrast to the theme of the design which is "forward," as the negative space in the background design will form into a repeating arrow the same size and spacing as the green arrows that is moving in the opposite direction. Which I feel compliments the over all design of the finished piece for "forward."
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