Orange Snap Dragon
***Challenge spoiler*** If you’re participating in the flower wagon challenge, you may not want to see my progress.
When starting to work on the final snap dragon, I initially used the same colors as those in the photo: yellow and orange.
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However, I thought the pure yellow stuck out too much, so I switched it to more of a yellow-orange. And this is what I got:
At this point, I was basically through designing. Assessing my progress, I could see that, just as I had feared, the flower petals didn’t show up that well. I didn’t want this to look like three blobs of color, after all!
I had several ideas for fixing this problem, and I began to audition them. Soon, I’ll show you what I did.
Ellen Lindner
