Statistically, 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience mental health problems over the course of one year. This means that most people will experience it during their lives: be it affecting them, or someone they are close to. Dogs are incredibly happy animals, just watching them makes you feel happy. When you have a dog of your own, its a whole other matter. If you've had a bad day and you go back home feeling sad and defeated, having a happy little ball of fur flying up to greet you like he hasn't seen you in weeks is the best thing ever. Those feelings of sadness are instantly lifted, because someone is overjoyed that your back home. This is the reason why everyone in the world should experience the love of dogs. Everyone would be so happy and positive all the time.
Here I'm going to post some initial sketches of some ideas for my drawing:
Here I'm going to post some initial sketches of some ideas for my drawing:
This was my first idea. I had the dog as a sort of robot of happiness. It's keeping hold of the world, and the little exclamation marks show that there are problems that the dog needs to attend to. It's a very unusual dog so as to match Semenov's style. I took inspiration from Semenov's robot drawing, and used that for a "happiness" meter on the dogs chest. Instead of using realistic looking dog eyes, I went for bigger ones to try and get the "cuteness" that Semenov has in his work. | This was my second idea. I have a dog sat on top of the world, half of the world will be really dark and then the other half will be colourful with happier looking faces and such. However I think I'll need to change the dog so that it looks a bit more creepy so as to match Semenov's style better. I'm still keeping the little robotic "happiness" meter on the dogs front as I think this is really effective, and also it relates well to Semenov's style. |
The reason why I chose to do my drawing digitally is because that is the medium that Semenov uses. I could have done a drawing, however I find that for something like this a digital drawing would be better as you can add effects and such which are hard to achieve with a traditional drawing on paper. I think that a sculpture would also have worked really well for this, but due to me not having any clay, I don't think I could have got it in time to create something effective. If I had had more time to do this project then I would have definitely done a sculpture as I could see my initial ideas looking quite good as sculptures - especially the second one, as I could use some string to suspend it in the air so that it looks like the dog really is sat on the earth.
This is a photo of my working area, as I thought it might be interesting to show where I have been doing my drawings. The software I've been using is Manga Studio 5. | This is the sketch of my final design. I'm now going to spend the next few hours turning it into a piece of art (well hopefully). I'm hoping that I'll have this done in time, as I had to start my drawing late on due to having no internet from Friday until now, which has meant me having to do my research on a separate laptop at my uncle's house. |
This is the finished design, I didn't really know what I was doing with the colouring of the dog, which is why it took me so long. What I'm going to do next it add a background and change the colour saturation to make it more like Semenov's artwork. | This is the world finished. I might add a bit more depth to the pink in the middle, but other than that I am pretty satisfied. |
The finished design
This is my final finished project. I think it's kind of similar to Semenov's style, as the dog looks quite creepy while still being cute. My design is a lot brighter than Semenov's works as I needed half the world to be really colourful so as to show off the power that the dog has. The pink in the middle is supposed to be a sort of cloud spreading across the dark side of the world to make it all bright again. The reason I went for pink is because its very bright and is often associated with good magic in fairy tales. If I'd had more time to do this project I would have taken more time on the colouring of the dog and on the background, or I may have done something entirely different.