This is one of the few pieces that I started AND turned in on time. Ironically, though it was very time consuming. I took it home twice and finished it on the day it was due. I won't go through my process because of how much it took, but I will say that I had to cut each hole that the thread goes through. Maybe you can imagine how long that must have taken, let alone thread each piece through. In the end, I'm really glad I had the patience for it. I really like the way it looks minus a few mistakes. Firstly, I really hate how the hair looks. The strands look like cartoons when I really wanted it to look at least a little bit realistic. Secondly, I hate the one gear piece that's red because it looks messy. I really should have made a second shape like that and redrawn in but I was too lazy for it (I really have to fix my laziness!) Overall, the other gears look nice and I cut out the pieces well. They really fit into each other. The eyes look the way I wanted them to and each thread locks in place! I definitely think this one came out really successful.
I really love how this turned out. I've always wanted to sketch something on a plain scratchboard and when I was told it was our next project I was overly excited. I instantly thought of doing a horse, but what I didn't know was what view of the horse I was going to scratch out. I knew I had pictures in my phone of horses at my barn, so I went into my gallery and started scrolling. Horse butt? Nope. Horse eye? Nope. Side view? Nope. Frontal view? Hmmm.......I think yes! I took the pic I had and started sketching on a practice sheet of scratchboard. I couldn't quite get the shape or the view right, so I took what I had and brought it to the big board. I sketched with an eraser and when I finally thought I had everything good, I started the final one. I definitely took more time on this one than the practice one, but I'm glad I got all the details in. I kinda wish I didn't crosshatch it, but I think it still turned out pretty well.
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