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Lurking through the forest with sharp teeth and a thirst for blood, the lizard mutant is the last thing you want to encounter. For this character creation project in my Anatomy Drawing class, I aimed to create a sense of action with diagonal lines through the composition made by the limbs and face of the character, as well as the horizon and framing objects, all of which engage the edges of the piece. A complementary color scheme is used to create visual impact and texture on the lizard-man was created selectively to focus the viewer’s attention on areas such as the face. The build of the figure had to closely resemble that of the model used to take reference photos. In the future, I hope to create characters of wild proportions and designs.

As a climber scales a treacherous rock face, he is greeted by a massive faun eager to converse with him among the otherwise lonely landscape. The faun, with his grand ego as suggested by an elegant pose, pays little concern to the terror he has brought upon the climber, now paralyzed in fear and clinging to the cliff for dear life. This piece was made for the animal-man project in my sophomore-fall Anatomy Drawing class. It was done in soft pastel on a spray-primed piece of cardboard. The size of this piece greatly surpasses that of any I’ve done before and I adapted to the challenge with a stylistic departure from my other work. As opposed to a volume-driven approach consisting of light and shadow shapes across a large value range, I opted for a soft and graphic employment of solid colors with gradual hue shifts, contained within visible line work. This led me to be more conscious of color cohesion and color theories pertaining to depth and interest, such as atmospheric occlusion, than I have in the past.