house warming

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This little ditty is for my Illustration Methods class dictated by Matt Curtius. The assignment was to make something symbolic rather than narrative (next assignment). I chose the term "house" to work my sketches off of. So, for this concept, I wanted to hint at means of saving money on gas/decreasing carbon footprint/having a house warming party(?) without having any real resolve (i.e symbolism). I just keep my heat at 50 and wear some pretty ugly sweaters.

There's only three real elements to this drawing, material wise:

screwing around with this quick acrylic on water color paper texture:


editing scans from this 25 cent book:


and repeating an old pattern from a repeat-pattern




Crit tomorrow!
warm regards