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Polygonal Dog Collage

This collage started as an idea for a small scale project to do over the course of a couple weeks before quickly turning into my biggest project I'd take on all semester. The inspiration came from a project we once did in class where we'd take an image of an animal and recreate it by drawing a bunch of triangles over it to fill in the shape, then add color and end up with a polygonal animal. To raise the stakes a bit, I thought it would be fun and make for a cool looking result if I tried to do that same thing but replacing the flat colors of the original project idea with images of the actual animal inside each triangle. I picked a dog because I felt the variety of colors in breeds would work well with the different areas of it I'd end up coloring. I drew the triangles over the dog's shape and determined which areas would be filled with which colors. The main body is golden, the ear a darker brown, the eyes and mouth black, the tongue pink, and the teeth white. I knew this project may take a bit longer than others when I started, but I soon realized I had severely underestimated how much time and effort would be needed to gather roughly 160 quality dog images and individually fit them into the triangles I had drawn. This process went well over a month of working in class time to complete, but I'm very happy with how the collage turned out, and adapting by learning tricks and shortcuts in the program as I went along made it possible to bring the project to completion. Through this long project I feel that I've gotten better with time management, work ethic, and using my resources available to the best of my ability.
Polygonal Dog Collage
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Polygonal Dog Collage

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