Studio Brief 2- A Tale in the Sting- Animal Research

Animal Research

As my idea involves a black dog weighing down its owner to show depression getting stronger for the sufferer, i am going to have to do a lot of character designs showing how the character develops, in size, age and how it gets angrier or grumpier with the owner. This is a hard task to do in the time frame but as an added task i have made myself, would be i have never really attempted to draw animals at all, i have steered clear so they always seemed too difficult but i am going to push myself in an attempt to show how the black dog is a good term from Winston Churchill to represent depression.

When i first thought of where to get ideas for learning how to draw dogs was from 101 Dalmatians and how they needed to draw them from puppies to adults which is what i need to do so i started researching into how they designed them from the start to the finished designs.

 Here you can see where they looked at all the angles and points of views of the puppies so they knew when it came to animating, what they looked like from various angles and some of the positions they needed to animate.

This image above is one i thought was good for the angle as i am drawing a small puppy pulling on the owners trouser leg so i needed to see what they looked like sitting down.

Here i also thought i could use the two to learn the basic shapes people use when first starting to learn how to draw an animal as i need to learn how the body moves with their legs and how they flow as a whole being. This is why i will use these for initial sketches to build up the characters and rough forms.