Golden Eagle #7

Golden Eagles are my favorite bird, they are huge, majestic and crazy to look at. I used to think my favorite was the bald eagle but then I saw the golden eagle and was like never mind, this bird is so cool!! I tried to capture the movement of the bird soaring through the air and I tried to keep the mechanical aspect yet I struggled because I really wanted to show the light feathers of the bird. I think I need to go back to the mechanical look, I am starting to go more natural looking and less mechanical. I was working on my cross hatching technique throughout this piece, I really enjoyed how it turned out. The back wing ended up a little too short, it makes the bird appear cut off. I think for another project I will be doing a bird as well, and the next time I will make it more mechanical. I am thinking about doing a pelican. I overall like how this project turned out, yet I struggled in completing the face in I way I liked. I wish I had more time to practice drawing and sketching the bird, I need to practice the profile of the beak and face, it ended up looking different than most Golden eagle pictures.

giraffe #6

I learned a lot about myself through this project and really enjoyed yet I had some struggles in it also. I had a really hard time figuring out what the layout for this piece would look like. I wasn’t sure how zoomed in on the giraffes I should be and I am afraid I zoomed too far in. The giraffes in comparison with the other pieces I have made have soft and rough fur. This was a challenge for me because I hadn’t drawn a critter with multiple types of fur so it was hard for me to decide how to draw the mechanical aspect. I decided to do really small detail on the inside of the spots and make the spots big metal plates that had shading on them to make it look like metal. I had fun doing these giraffes, the only problem was that people didn’t know they were giraffes, people said deer, moose, and other animals of similar face structures. It was a little discouraging because I wasn’t sure how to make them look more giraffe like. I understand that I didn’t draw them perfect yet I enjoyed drawling them and enjoyed the composition.

Bear #5

So for this project I really wanted to do a bear. I struggled a lot with finding the right picture and layout. I really wanted to show the bear’s cute cuddly appearance and its wild side. I found it really difficult to show the perspective for the bear and the background. If you can’t tell yet I really like having a blank background, not really sure why. It’s most likely a combination of me not wanting to mess up the project, being just too lazy to add anything else, and I just like having the focus on one thing with no background distractions.

I liked doing the bear, I was really excited when I got to add some Native American designs into yet I struggled with the depth. In the photo, the bear had some very obvious parts to where things were raised and lowered and to my mistake I started adding these dark lines that showed the change in elevation yet created a rather choppy piece. I did this over the snow days so I didn’t stop to look back at my progress a lot, I was more focusing on getting it done which I believe affected the overall look. If I could do this project over again I would focus on perspective and make sure that the patterns were flowing into each other, not backing into the other one.  This piece is a lot different from my wolf, the wolf has movement and is very abstract, rather with the bear I feel like it is too stagnant and blending mechanical with organic designs which did not have the outcome I was intending.