I found the images on Pinterest months ago, and knew that's what I wanted to use. I didn't cut clean around the girl because I wanted it to look separate. The background and girl were both printed on cardstock; I had to brighten the image of the woods because on the first printing you couldn't tell what it was. I roughed up the edges by rubbing them on the sidewalk and scraping them with my fingernails; you can't really tell in the photo, but I like the texture it gives to it. I used my metallic markers to draw the glowing light/door thing at the end of the path. Then I went to work on the thorns, which took the longest of the whole process. I practiced on a scrap paper at first because I wanted them to look "just right," but I couldn't get them to that point, and I finally just decided to go with what I knew how to draw and adapt it. I've been drawing vines a lot over the past few months, so I did that, but instead of leaves and flowers, I add thorns. After doing it all with just the silver marker, it didn't look quite the way I wanted it to, so I went back and did all the detail work with one of Mitchell's fancy Micron pens that he gave me. Doing all those vines and thorns was pretty therapeutic. By the time I finished that, I knew what I wanted to call it. I looked up "fancy lettering" on Pinterest, then I just kind of improvised until I liked the way it all looked. The last thing I added was the stripes/arrows down the sides. On them, I wrote out the things the thorns represent, the things the light at the end represents, and how I feel as I'm "running" toward the end. I feel really good about it all, and I'm excited that I was able to create something that has so much personal meaning to it.
I'm considering attempting another collage of the same "type" for my next project. I'll probably decided as the day goes on.
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