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 I realised, I was not going in a steady direction with my 'Joan of arc' work, for this reason I decided to kind of start again. So I made this Mood board,  I needed to understand the key themes and the storyline succinctly  I also looked at other artists designs for joan of arc online.

 Venom Lemon, I drew over my venom lemon with pen, then I used a watercolour pen on adobe fresco to emphasise the droopy eeriness in venoms eyes. I also layered some of the photos together using the 'Dazz cam' app so two venoms could exist in one frame. from this and the spiderman post I noticed I was gaining new followers at different hours throughout the day.

 I put some of the images into photoshop, to begin my joan of arc editing with the second image, I decided to remove the objects on the right to create a further emphasis on the cloud and the platform in the image. I managed to remove most of the side obstacles and I placed a silluette as a plan of where to place my 'joan'. I also made the skies lighter as it would make 'joan' potentially be the main focus. But they are still wide as I want them to be seen, they are a metaphorical link to the spirits that guided Joan of arc. Using another image I took , and an online fire png, I created this other edit, the huge blossoming fire reflects the blaze from Joan's sacrifice.

 For the joan of arc project, I have been a bit unsure of how to begin designing. One of the technique's I saw Dean use was to take pictures of great surrounding's to archive for later so I've been taking a lot more images lately. I took a trip to the seaside and took some landscape images, I plan to work over them in photoshop. I am planning to post my second picture and video reel on Instagram, it will be of a venom lemon. This is an image of the lemon after I painted it and altered it in adobe fresco.  

  Using the Led lights I had around my bedroom, I filmed my fist reel. I took many pictures of the lemons under the different light colours and combined the pictures together to create fast paced a moving image video. I also cropped some images so when they played together some would appear as if I zoomed in on them. I uploaded the video on instagram and used the spiderman-3 theme song. I used the hashtags, instagood , art , spidermanlemon and spiderman I also uploaded a single image alongside it.

 Now that I had my idea, my next conquest... The name. I first created a business account on Instagram, with a long username called 'sweetbitterlemon' which for all reasons was not a good name at all. Only chose it since 'bittersweet' was gone , a lazy decision at that. A few days passed , and I decided to over look the name so I could make it short and straight to the point. I thought i am drawing on lemons , so i could use the word scribe. I first thought along the lines of  'lemonscribe' untill    I shortened it down to lemscribe  

  EUREKA THATS IT! Lewin Day, 2020,LED Hacks   I had a discussion with friend about how to choose a lemon topic, they advised that it should be something I can realistically produce every week, and not too hard to make. From this point I realised, drawing people each week drinking lemonade using professional drawing will take ages! Until Eureka! What if I drew characters onto lemons instead?   That same day I went straight to Aldi later and bought a bunch of lemons.   I decided for my focus to be marvel since they have a large fanbase and I am a big fan so it would be fun.

      I am still unsure of what to do exactly for my lemon project, I have been thinking of an idea where I draw famous characters each drinking a glass of lemonade. This could also be actors too; I could perhaps also make meme like captions to go with each picture. I have also thought maybe I should draw the characters to avoid copyright issues since I am uploading the posts publicly.