Our first major project in Advanced Higher Graphics is to illustrate a magazine article.  However, before completing our articles on the computer, we had to create a visual by hand of what it would look like. Our teacher suggested we used pastels to create our images as they are different to what we are used to and create very strong images.  For my opening double page spread to my article, I took an image and manipulated it by using a vector trace in Inkscape to simplify the colours and then copied it using pastels. This imaged was later scanned and used in my final article on computer using Serif Pageplus. The image of the shoe on the front cover is also done using pastels, however I decided not to use this image for my final article.