Design Competition - Healing Art

The contest I chose is The Healing Power of Art. I realize that my work may not exactly be what the contest is intended, as I am assuming they want more spiritual and perhaps religious art, but I chose to do something that closely relates to what my peace was. When my son was born 6 months ago, he had many problems and was in NICU for a week. The stress and anxiety I felt during that time was difficult, the most difficult days of my life, and the only solace I felt was to stand in the empty nursery that my newborn son had yet to come home to.

This is what I call "The Night Before"

I began by tracing the outline of a rug that I was modeling in 3d. I created a simple teddy bear rug design that I would eventually apply in the 3d software. This teddy bear design is my own, created with the elliptical tools in Illustrator.

 I then opened this up in Photoshop, and filled in the colors and used the FX function to add a more rug-like texture.

 I then traced a train image in Illustrator, which will serve as a decorate wall hanging in my nursery.

 Again, I opened this up in Photoshop and filled in the colors. In Photoshop, I also created a blue and white stripe wallpaper, and also created a cherry wood texture using a photograph I took of my coffee table.









This is my preliminary nursery, note the train decoration and the teddy bear rug. It is intentionally dark, and the only light is the light coming in from through the window.

I will be using Illustrator and Photoshop to add a few more things, such as patterns for bedding, more decorations, crown moulding, curtains, etc. I may also add a lamp and end table, as well as a few more baby toys.