The project assignment for this piece was nature turns mechanical. My first idea was to do a mechanical soldier. I loved the design of the breast plate and hoped to be able to replicate the design but when I was trying it on my draft, I couldn't capture the metal the way I wanted. Scraping that idea, I ran with my next idea. Originally the picture was just a close up view of legs walking. The legs have a mechanical interior as if you were seeing into the inner mechanisms of the leg. I then decided to add a mechanical dog next to the legs. The legs were a lot harder than I had initially anticipated. I started off just coloring in the leg with the skin color prisma and got frustrated when the lines wouldn't blend away. Michelle, the girl who sits next to me, advised me to use small circular motions when blending and blocking color; this made a world of a difference. I like how the dog turned out, especially the red in the ear of the dog. I struggled to make the dogs stand out in the foreground. Because of the black in between the bars, the black pulled the dog back into the middle ground when the dog is suppose to be walking beside the person.The grass in the middle ground was hard because I didn't want to blend the colors together but I wanted to cover all of the paper. Also, the blades of grass were taller than the edge of the water so it overlapped, but the dark blue over powered the green. To highlight the grass blades, I took a white gel pen and highlighted the taller blades of grass. I also used the white gel pen to accent the highlights in the metal. I purposely made the streaks in the medal while applying the gel pen and prismas to resemble stainless steel. I love the hills in the background because I feel like the green ties in with the middle ground grass really well. I saved the sky for last thinking it would be relatively easy, however it was arguably the second hardest part of the piece (the first most definitely being the skin). I think I did achieve my goal though of blending the colors smoothly. If I were to do this project again, I would draw the metal bars in the legs with a ruler. I tend to show some characteristics of being a perfectionist and all I see when I look at the bars is that the lines aren't straight. Also, I would work from the background to the foreground because I feel I could've gotten cleaner lines with the legs and dog. Overall I am very happy with this piece because I feel that I was able to achieve bright and bold colors that I have never been able to achieve with prismas before.
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