Toy Animal Study Finished Project

Hello everyone! Before I get down to business, I'd like to celebrate the fact that this is my 50th post! If you've been keeping up with my blog for a while, thank you for the support! If you're new, thanks for taking a look and I hope you'll stick with me as I record my artistic journey!

So, now to the art. I've been working on this piece for the past few weeks and I think it turned out really well!

Here's the first stage of the final piece, where I sketched out the toy animal and broke it down into it's basic shapes. Most of the time I spent on this drawing was during this phase, because it's more important to get the correct proportions and alignment than anything else. Once that is all set, adding value is easy.

Once the proportions are correct and the planes are all mapped out, adding value is very simple. A key part of this project was using value to create an area of emphasis, so I built up a lot of value in the head of the bottom figure and left the other two figures less developed. I also shaded in the background in select areas so that it was very clear where the area of emphasis was. Overall, I feel that I accomplished what I was going for with this piece. (Sorry that this image is so much more red than the last one. The pictures were taken at two different times with different lighting, and my camera kept trying to correct the photo since it was so dominantly warm)