when i started brainstorming for my fourth concentration piece, it was during the five day weekend we got from the snow days. I watched my fair share of movies that weekend, but the one that really inspired me was finding nemo actually. I decided a really cool way to incorporate design into my animal portraits was doing turtles and i could easily incorporate designs into the shells and scales of their bodies. I did not realize how time consuming this really would be as i had to do ever little scale and part of the shells, as well as the background, so this was by far my most complex and detailed projected i have completed i think. The most challenging part for me was trying to create the difference between the smaller further away turtle and the coral it is swimming by. I had to keep darkening over and over and over and i went through about two sharpie pens i think on this one piece but i am very happy with the way that this turned out. The one thing i would change is maybe just darken up the larger turtle just a little but more to just give it a little more contrast between the background but otherwise i really enjoyed doing this piece (Except the stippling in the background) and it is one of my favorites.
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