Daily Blog Post #15

one of the things that attracts me the most are abstract designs. anything from textures to circles and arrows and anything 3D. i usually have very dark abstract wallpapers and i have also tried drawing my own. so i decided to look at some abstract art in google images. i saw many that attracted me, but very few that i had the slightest idea of how to create. i saw a simpler one that i decided to use as somewhat of a guide but most of the work i did was my own.

yesterday i set up a light kind of pastel yellow color for the background with darker stripes. then i mostly used the cirle tool and star tool and line tool to create figures scattered all over the background. then i added arrowheads to the lines to make them look like arrows as well as some really random swirls. the first picture is what i completed yesterday.

today i decreased and increased the size of the arrows to add a little variety. then i colorized the circles. i wanted some contrast so i used dark red and gray colors and some really dark mustard type color to go with the background. with the circles colored, the back still looked somewhat empty, so i decided to add some texture which had been my initial thought, but i totally forgot. i used texture symbols. some that looks kind of like a texturized wall as well a some splatters. i messed around with the blending modes. the last touch was a flare from the flare tool. the huge flare was kind of an accident because the mouse moved, but it ended up looking like a galaxy i think.