PlanningI LOVE MY DOG SOOOOOO MUCH!!!! Since I love my dog so much it makes me so happy to do her portrait, but nervous at the same time. It makes me nervous because what if the piece doesn't come out well, like it would upset me so much that I couldn't make a good portrait of her. Planning for this piece wasn't hard when finding pictures, but it took a lot of photos and sketches to pick the one I liked the most. After sketching, I finally decided on doing the one where its a side profile of her on her dog bed. Next thing to decide was the medium I was going to do the portrait in. Last year I had done this project in prismacolor and I liked but I wanted to do something different and besides the project before this I had done in prismacolor. Another girl in the class mentioned that I should do it as a scratch board, but I had never done scratch board before. Mrs Rossi gave a scrap piece to practice, and I quickly learned that I needed to make smaller and thinner lines. Mrs. Rossi suggested that I use a white color pencil on black paper. I think that really helped me define the areas of my dog that needed the whitest shade and even how to create more value in the fur. ProgressOh boy, this piece took a very long time to complete. The first issue I had was drawing the outline onto the board in proper proportions. Finally I got some transfer paper and copied the image over and filled in a few missing spaces. I thought it would be a good idea to start with the really white part of the piece of her head and work out from there. My major concern was going to scratch too much off and flatten the piece. This piece never bothered, or bored me, rather it felt therapeutic as long as I couldn't hear the scratching noise. As for the background I wanted it to be semi-detailed, but I didn't want it to have the same texture as Lucky. I used loose cross hatching lines to draw out the background, but in some areas I scratched out the shadows rather than the highlights. Overall I really like this piece I love the texture and realism that I achieved. I like the color choice of black and white scratch board. Things I didn't like so much is that you can't really tell that my dog has multiple colors like dark and golden brown as well as white and black, you can see the difference in shades, but not enough to imagine different colors.
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