In this project we had to pick a picture we took of something with an interesting perspective and shade it using pencil. At first I really didn't know what to do for this project so out of desperation for inspiration I just took some pictures one of my cats while he was sleep-purring because I thought it was pretty cute. He was originally one of the stray cats that liked to hang around my neighborhood. During this summer I kept seeing some stray cats walking around in my backyard so I started leaving food out around my backyard. After about a week this little guy comes up to me and starts meow-screaming and rubbing up against me and demanding attention. We ended up adopting him a few weeks after that. He's now my indoor/outdoor cat who's really sweet and loves to have his tummy rubbed, sleep all day, and basically scream all night.
Okay I think I should start talking about the project now (heh whoops)
So at first when I decided to use this picture for the project I was kinda iffy about doing fur because I'm not very experienced with it and it's a weird texture (for me at least) to draw. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out, mainly the fur direction on and around the legs! Although, I feel like the stomach came out a little weird, I think I may have shaded the area around there a little too much. The background shading isn't very good either in my opinion. The plank at the end of the bed looks weird perspective-wise as well which I wish I knew how to fix. But overall it turned out pretty great considering the fact I lost a lot of my drawing pencils and had to stick with one or two of them to do this project.
I tried my best to get the fur values correct and blend it to make it look fuzzy and soft and not like some weird porcupine thing. I also had to try to make sure that the legs didn't look blended together into one huge mega-leg. I also had to be careful that the shadows on the sheets didn't look like part of the cat's fur. Another hard thing about doing fur is making sure that the sketch outline on the cat doesn't overlap or show through the fur, making it look like an outline. I tried to make sure to outline the cat with fur to show that it still stood up. Like you don't want it to stand up too much in certain places so you have to shade/draw it in a certain way, I'm not sure of a good way to explain this.
Okay I think I should start talking about the project now (heh whoops)
So at first when I decided to use this picture for the project I was kinda iffy about doing fur because I'm not very experienced with it and it's a weird texture (for me at least) to draw. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out, mainly the fur direction on and around the legs! Although, I feel like the stomach came out a little weird, I think I may have shaded the area around there a little too much. The background shading isn't very good either in my opinion. The plank at the end of the bed looks weird perspective-wise as well which I wish I knew how to fix. But overall it turned out pretty great considering the fact I lost a lot of my drawing pencils and had to stick with one or two of them to do this project.
I tried my best to get the fur values correct and blend it to make it look fuzzy and soft and not like some weird porcupine thing. I also had to try to make sure that the legs didn't look blended together into one huge mega-leg. I also had to be careful that the shadows on the sheets didn't look like part of the cat's fur. Another hard thing about doing fur is making sure that the sketch outline on the cat doesn't overlap or show through the fur, making it look like an outline. I tried to make sure to outline the cat with fur to show that it still stood up. Like you don't want it to stand up too much in certain places so you have to shade/draw it in a certain way, I'm not sure of a good way to explain this.