It is clear to see here that I have not completely followed the idea which I have previously published. However, in this stamp I have taken aspects from all of my different pieces of work and research in the months previous to it. I have still kept the idea that I would have Ronaldo as my focal point in my first stamp, and that I have done. Though this version differs from my original plan as I had been previously been creating a full colour trace of the top half of his body in Adobe Illustrator and in this version I have created a silhouette of his whole body. I did this after I realised that it would make it stand out more rather than having it in colour along with the rest of the stamp and the other image which I would create beside it. The colours which I have used in my stamp are significant to Brazil as I have used: green, blue, yellow and orange. I researched the colours of Brazil which include the colours of the flag and the colour of kits which sports teams wear. Yellow, green and blue are used for the Brazilian flag and football team's kit and I incorporated orange as it is a colour which is similar to yellow so looks good in a gradient with it, as well as it being a warm colour to represent the warm temperatures and sun in Rio de Janeiro. Despite it differing from my last idea it still ties in with all of the work I have already done as my first sketches show that I originally planned to have sketches on all of my stamps, although I just planned for them all to be of different sports in the Olympics rather than here I have merged my two previous ideas in to one, as I still have Ronaldo as my focal point in this first stamp, though I have created him as a silhouette instead as I was going to do anyway in my first idea, but instead just of someone kicking a ball and not specifically Ronaldo. Besides him I have traced around an image which I have taken myself. This image is of an Iguana which I saw on my trip to Tropical World and got a good photo of. I used the same techniques to create this image as I did with the Ronaldo which I created as practise in Adobe Illustrator leading up to my final piece. As you will be able to tell from my previous blogs, I have been researching the work on artist, Pablo Jeffer da Silva. I have viewed many pieces of his work so that I am able to get a feel for the sort of techniques which he consistently uses in his illustrations. I have incorporated some of his techniques into my own stamps by using the flare tool in each of them. In this stamp specifically you will be able to see that I have used the tool twice; first just below the Queen's head in the top right hand corner and second to the left of the Rio 2016 logo. Another technique of his which I have tried to incorporate into my own work is the gradient tool. Again, in this stamp specifically you can see that I have used it for the whole of the background for it. And also, I created my own Rio 2016 logo to use in my stamps and I have used the gradient effect once again in that. Aside from that I have also tried to make it look like a real Olympic stamp by using a silhouette of the Queen's head in the top right corner and in the bottom right there are the Olympic rings.
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