Alpaca Project

Rough Drafting

Final Piece

My main reason for creating this piece was to give to my friend. I also wanted to work in colored pencils as I have not really used colored pencils much before. I also wanted to work with very contrasting colors as I used neutral tones for the alpacas and more cool vibrant blues in the background. I started by creating the lighter tan alpaca. I started with a quick outline of where it was going to go. After this I started working on the face. I worked on the ears and then the nose was next. After this, I outlined where the eyes were and then  created the fur around it. The very last thing I did on the face was the eyes. Once I was satisfied with the face I started on the body. I used the same technique as I did for the fur on the face. very quick pencil strokes with various shades of light tan as well as some darker browns to add some texture and values.  After I was completely done with the light tan alpaca, I started with the darker brown alpaca. Again, started with the face using the same routine. This alpaca was a little harder to do because he many more more colors and facial features than the other one. The fur on the alpacas neck was also a little different so I used a different technique for the neck. In this piece, I think the most prominent element that I used was texture. This was found throughout the fur of the alpacas. Also I used a lot of colors. In the background, I used different values of blue to make gradient. Another element that I used was line. This was found in the alpaca fur as well. In my piece, I tried to show the right proportions. It took a while to find how far the eyes were, how the face looked and the body shape and how the fur would go on to look realistic. Contrast was also shown in my piece through the bright color of the background to the more neutral alpacas.