week 6 - abstraction thumbnails

for next illustration class we were to take an object, preferably one we would draw in our upcoming project, and do a bunch of thumbnail sketches, abstracting it in different ways. i chose a planet, as my next assignment is all set in outer space. it was kinda tough coming up with different ways to abstract a planet, because it's really just a sphere and a ring. i did a bunch, scanned them in and compiled them below.

this exercise really did help for the next assignment, though, as it gave me some ideas for how i'm going to draw personified galaxies.