"This is where the fun begins."
Wow. Sorry for the insane delay between this post and the previous one. Life has been extremely busy recently - for the past fortnight I've been training very hard for my black belt grading which I completed on Sunday 24th April. That means it's time for a very long blog post! You might want to put the kettle on... Anyway, with the scissors, glue bottle and tree finished, I've moved on to the most complicated part of my deforestation piece - the banknotes. I started with the rear of a 2000 issue £10 note (due to the leaves on its left side in association with Charles Darwin's voyages), and the tracing process has proved to be quite a challenge! As always, I started with a high-res image of the object as my bottom layer in Illustrator. Rear of a 2000-issue £10 banknote [1] So you can see what I had to work with. I decided to omit most of the more intricate details such as the HMS Beagle, the compass design, the sun motif and the lower left-hand co...