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.
For my third concentration piece, i decided to move away from doing pen with this one since i have been working with it so much. I thought it would be cool if i tried out doing a portrait since i have never really done a just pencil only project before. I used my cat as my model and my reference for this piece and took a picture of him laying on our hard wood floors. Overall, i believe that this piece was pretty successful especially it being my first pencil project. Things that i definitely need to change however are to go in and add more contrast between the cat and the wall behind it because i am noticing that it kind of fades into the wall. Also, i know that i drew out all of the wood grain but i could still add more detailing and more shadows to the floor to help it to look more dimensional and therefore more realistic. I drew this piece out on drawing board which, to be honest, i think after this project i am not the biggest fan of so maybe next time i will just use regular drawing paper because to me it felt a lot harder to try and create the values on the drawing board versus when i was just practicing it on the paper. I am satisfied with this, although not my favorite, and it was a good change to do pencil for a piece and is something i would use as a medium in my concentration pieces again possibly.
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