When I first start a new project I start with doing a few drawings of my main subjects, in this case animals, as I wont yet know how the final outcome will look but the animals i draw i know ill have in my work, as I have picked them from the photographs I took from the museums I visited. I like to draw out the animals first because I prefer to work from my drawings then the photographs as my drawings give me more of an idea of the colours I need and how the animals will actually look within my painting.
These are two of my drawings I’ve done, and I’m still doing more drawings for all the animals I want in my final painting. I have done other drawings such as a beaver, hedgehogs, a parrot and an owl. The drawings do take some time to complete, mainly its because my hand starts to ache from holding the colouring pencils for a long time, but sometimes I feel like I’m going to ruin the drawing if I continue so I leave it, sometimes I will start another drawing then come back to the other and other times I will wait till I’ve finished the first drawing before starting another. The drawings themselves are artworks in their own right, each one is special and individual, even though they are just the start of the main painting i plan on doing and i do them to help with the final outcome, they can be seen as pieces of art themselves.
