Rhino sketches (Practice) Project 3 progress

In this picture I'm practicing drawing Rhinos in different angles and added some level of detail so you can hopefully tell its a Rhino.

Project 3 proposal

For project 3 I finally decided to make my topic a 2 parter kind of. Its going to be about the white rhino who recently passed away and how poaching should stop to prevent any other animals from going extinct. I was having trouble figuring out what thinking skill the topic would fit into, but I realized it would fit Synthesizing really well since killing animals can lead to environmental changes and its honestly just cruel.

Project 2 proposal

For my project I decided to go with Contextualizing for the thinking skill and figure skating for my topic. Im going to be drawing the project on my phone with an app, if anyone else wants to use it, its called Medibang.  Back to the topic idea I wanted to integrate my art style into it and a watercolor kind of look. I also don't want to be focusing on figure skating. I want to focus mostly on a figure skater, Yuzuru Hanyu.

Project 2

My thinking skill is contextualizing and I choose this because for my topic, a lot can affect a figure skaters' performance. Mental state's can affect their performances in negative ways as they might be too hard on themselves and not focus on their performance. Sometimes, they might have a lot of pressure and that can affect them too. injuries also play a huge part In it all. (Yuzuru Hanyu was figure skating at the olympics despite being injured!). So I was having trouble figuring out what exactly I wanted to do for my topic idea so I decided to gather any ideas I had and write them down on paper. I had one of my favorite video games, Fire emblem, Mythology in general, and figure skating!  if I chose figure skating i'd focus on one of my favorite figure skaters, Yuzuru Hanyu who is amazing!! I honestly always wanted to be a figure skater when I was little but I wasn't able to in the end due to many things.
I obviously decided to go with figure skating since its something that is really amazing and means a lot to me in some or many ways.

I chose to draw Yuzuru Hanyu because he's an extremely graceful and talented figure skater who is inspiring to me.

He started skating in 1988 (He was 4 at the time!!). He started skating because his older sister inspired him.
He became the first male Japanese figure skater to win an Olympic gold medal when he claimed victory in the men's single skating at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi!
He was also the first to perform a clean Quadruple loop in competition which is amazing. 
If I'm being honest, I think anything and everything he does is amazing.
He often gets Winnie the Pooh bears thrown onto the ice after he has performed because as a child he had a Winnie the Pooh tissue box cover good luck charm. His teddy bear also has it's own Twitter account!! which is so cool and funny. in a good way.


so I decided to draw this picture 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/344173596516637069/

So I first decided to sketch out the body shape like if he was going to shoot a bow and arrow  except his right hand is raised above his head which made things a bit difficult.

I then roughly added the details so I would know where and how I wanted everything to look when I line art it or make it more clear.

I made it more clear and better looking and shaded in the hair a bit since it kind of looked off not shaded or colored in.

I "Finished" the drawing but I decided to change it a bit since I didn't really like the look of how colorless this turned out to be.

And this is the finished product! I decided to make the floor look like an ice rink

and used the eraser option and lowered how big it is to give it that effect. I still added the water color effect since it really has a beautiful look and adds to the picture.

Im pretty sad I didn't add Winnie the pooh, since its his good luck charm, beside him or near him somewhere.

Animal Abuse project

     

                                         Animal Abuse

The topic for my project is animal abuse. My reasoning for choosing a really important topic was because I love animals and think they're so amazing and deserve to be treated with love and respect and should be protected from any harm or ill intent. It might sound cheesy but its true. 

I decided to paint a golden retriever named Chance who, on November 14, 2016, was shot in the left rear leg and his front left leg was caught in a trap. sadly the leg that was shot has/had to be amputated and his toe in his front left leg has/had to be amputated as well.  Its really sad to hear and terrible how someone could even do something like this but even Chance went through something as terrible as that, he's been nothing but friendly and sweet to those in Lorain County Animal Emergency Center. 

Progress: 

I sketched the picture out first then began adding paint and made the frontal side area dark for shading reasons and painted the blanket with the colors I've seen but it didn't seem right so in the end I attempted to get a yellowish green so it would look like the picture. I also made a shading effect on the disc to make it actually seem like its curled.

 

in the picture above I added the cage background and finished painting the rest of the disc around Chance and the blanket covering the yellowish green mattress.

This is the finished project! 

Research: Its been found that cruelty to animals is strongly correlated with other crimes which could be harm against other people. The animals whose abuse is often reported are dogs, cats, horses, livestock. Based on the 1,423 U.S cruelty cases on  pet-abuse.com’s 2011 victimized species, 70.1% involved dogs, 20.9% involved cats, and 24.1% involved other animals.

I strongly advise you learn more at http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/abuse_neglect/facts/animal_cruelty_facts_statistics.html

Please help in any way you can and stop any harm befall any animal. Thank you.

While I do have areas I can improve upon, I really like how it turned out and I hope this inspires you to stop any animal abuse you may know of or see.  Thank you for reading this far!

Topic and Thinking Skill

The Topic I'm choosing is Animal Abuse and I chose this topic because I think its really important and its really sad how many animals go live in very poor living conditions and are mistreated.  I think the Cause and Effect thinking skill would fit this topic since an abuser could have been neglected or abused when they were younger. or maybe its still happening to them? there could be reason but it obviously doesn't make it ok.

So I decided to draw/paint our dog, Mocha! Mostly because we love her so much and

She's super adorable! but I also wanted to draw her because she loves when we take pictures of her.

edit: BUT NOT BECAUSE ABUSE OR ANYTHING!!
we'd never do that. but instead I have recently decided to paint a picture based on a dog named chance who recently has been abused. more will be told on my work progress.

Sketches