I had been waiting for the opportunity to draw a picture of my dog, Olivia, and I was so excited when I found out an animal portrait was our next project. Choosing a picture was harder than I thought it was going to be because I take lots of pictures of her. I figured out that the more posed, "artsy" pictures were not what I was looking for, instead I found myself liking the random off guard pictures that I take of her. I knew I wanted my medium to be prismas because I like the way you can really add details and that they blend so easily together. The photograph I drew this from was a random photo that I took in my kitchen one day after school. At first I didn't like it because she wasn't looking at the camera and you couldn't see her body but then I started to like the composition of it, it made you wonder what she was looking at. I worked the hardest on the eye, I was not initially satisfied with the way it had turned out but then after working on it for a while I ended up liking it a lot. the hardest part was getting the shading of the fur done accurately. I'm still not done with it, I'd like to add some more colors on the fur to make it a more yellow color and I'm still not completely satisfied with the way the wooden cabinet looks like behind her. Overall I am really happy with the way this looks, I did a drawing of Olivia for one of my summer pieces and I can definitely see the growth between the two pieces, I have learned how to use and blend the prismas much better now. I also learned how to better scale the pictures I draw more accurately.
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