For my final hybrid collages, I tried to work off of the digital collages I had done last week, using similar geometric shapes in patterns, to create depth and an abstract field. I started with the skyline piece, which started first as a simple skyline cut from a vector found online on a background of books I had liked, and then thought about what would make an appropriate background to highlight the idea I was trying to capture-that Austin was a vibrant and bustling city, and much like a collage itself-a mashing up of many different cultures and ideas that blend harmoniously together. I took a cut of beams shooting up diagonally from the center and inserted it into five photographs all which strongly featured light, making it look like the beams of light so commonly seen in cities. Then I started on the monkey piece,and went through my pictures looking for something interesting and captivating, which led me to that picture. I selected it, and decided to place it off-kilter in the middle and had the idea to draw in the rest of the outline in hand drawn, sketch-like pencil. I added the lips, another favorite of mine, and made bubbles of red clippings coming out of the pipe to keep with the lightheartedness. When I went back to the first after completing the second piece I realized the shapes were too continuous and needed to be broken up in order to integrate with the large white space at the top, so I deleted horizontal sections getting smaller and farther apart as they reached the bottom to do this. Then, it gave the appearance that these beams were traveling downward, not upward, and I decided to use the same technique of adding in pencil lines to complete the beams as skyscrapers of their own.