Cinnamon Project

For this piece, I was inspired by the short story "Cinnamon" by Neil Gaiman. The character that stood out to me the most in the story was the parrot, so I decided to focus my work on it. I first drew a parrot and then scanned the drawing onto my computer. I then used Photoshop to color in the parrot drawing and to emphasize the bright colors that are often associated with parrots. The coloring took up the bulk of my time since it was a tedious job to color in the lines with the computer mouse. I wanted to incorporate a quote from the story, but the quote was too long to fit on the canvas. I decided to use the title of the story instead. I thought that just the parrot and title was too plain of an image, so I used a pixelate filter and then changed the square pixels into circular ones. I thought the end result looked like a cross stitch pattern, which I feel fits in well with the story. Overall I am very satisfied with the end result of my project and I am glad that I got opportunity to learn new skills with the Photoshop software.