For this project, we had to do a portrait of our pets, or if we did not have a pet, a portrait of a friends pet. I decided to a portrait of my cat Simba, mostly because i had more pictures of him and his fur would be more fun to have to do versus a my dogs hair which is very short. I had a lot of trouble trying to figure out what i would like to do it in, and i ended up getting stuck between wanting to do it either in prismas or paint it in oils on canvas. Ultimately i prismas, more because i am more comfortable in them and i have never done an animal with prisma color colored pencils before. I chose the toned- tan paper that i for my sketchbook to do this project. Concepts for prisma color colored pencils that are really hard for me to grasp are the fact about layering, and i dont know, its weird to me still that my cat is orange, but yet i did not use a single orange colored pencil the whole entire project; i just used different shades of browns and yellows and it made the fur the same color as his. My favorite thing to do was his eyes because i really enjoy making things reflective and the eyes are the most reflective part of the project. Even though in the real picture the wall is actually a yellowish tan color, i decided to make the background a torquise blue color because the yellow wall was just too similar to the colors that i had already been using. I do wish that i had done the background first so that it actually did look more like it actually is in the background and maybe the shadows from the cat that are cast on the wall might have looked better. Overall, im satisfied with how this project turned out although not one of my favorites but i am happy with this.
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March 2016
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