Week 3 - Further research into what I'm doing

After having some inspiration spark from a previous visiting illustrator I decided to look more into the patters on a choker itself and how I can simplify the complicated lace designs. So I took one of my own chokers (on that had a little symbolic cat on the front) and used the lace around the neck as a design for the cat itself. 

I decided to go with creating dragons for my illustrations for the exhibition as laced patterns the laced patterns shown, can resemble dragons scales in a very similar way. The lace patterns I will be creating are simplified, making them look more like dragon scales. I decided to use a laced pattern from of my chokers I used for the previous illustration, (the cat shown above) and simplified it, this was the result.

I feel as if that simplifying my choker designs and creating something that resembles the lace works more effectively than try to do something that is complicated that requires a lot of detail, because having a detailed lace pattern takes away from the illustration itself and focuses on the pattern rather than what you want the audience to see. This is why I want not only the laced pattern to have attention, but I also want my audience to be interested in the illustration itself, and I want them to be curious to why I used these particular illustrations rather than using something random.