The final piece above is how my project turned out. I can’t say I’m too pleased with it but I don’t hate some parts. For some reason this project was just not one I ended up liking in the end, but I loved the process of working on it. I think I did well with making the standing cats legs look monstorous and accomplished the “where the wild things are” look I was going for. However, I hate how the cat turned out, all the white space, and wanted more from the blanket.
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This was my first sketch and where the idea for the final came from. I started sketching things in my purse at first such as sunglasses and a spell bottle. Then I moved onto drawing from pictures on my phone (which are mostly cats) I took an image of my cat standing on her back legs and tried drawing the fuzzy monster. I also drawed one of her toys which I thought could be fun to add but composition wise wasn’t too sure where to place. Then found a picture of my families cat, a beautiful wonderful boy. I loved how this sketch of him turned out. I wish it had gone as well in the final because he looks so fuzzy and cute. I also liked how the blanket tucked into his chin. The bottom left hand corner also has a rough outline of how I wanted the final composition.
Since the two images I drew from were not originally together, I played around with where each cat would be in propotion to the other. I almost went with the cat face directly in front of the cat legs, since I thought it may look as if the cat laying down was annoyed at the playing cat. However, I prefered the composition instead with her big legs off to the side and in front and the little sleepy cat next to her.
On this page I played around some with the textures that were involved with the piece. I wasn’t trying to be too detailed and instead was just getting ideas of what sorts of methods I’d try to use to get the texture I wanted.
On this page I really tried to get into textures with the piece. For the cat legs I wanted a very fluffy fierce look which I think I was able to bring out with the small strokes. For the nose I wanted soft fur up top, but then small stippling for his nose since it does it does have all the little holes for sweat. For the eye I was aiming to get the different waves of light in his eye so I really aimed on layering. For the blanket I wanted it to look soft but still have weight up at the top where the cat would be laying. And for the cats forehead I really wanted a fuzzy look but to still show how sleek and short haired the cat is.
Overall, though I didn’t like my final piece I really enjoyed doing this project. I think I would like to try again with my composition one day and see if I can get the cat on the blankets face looking closer to the ones in my sketches. I think I got nervouse with his proportions and blended a bit too much when I needed more clear strokes to show his fur patches. I’m hoping to use this to try to remember to stick to and aim more for recreation to what I’ve done in my sketching and preliminary work instead of trying to just remember what I did and be influenced by it.