For the pet portrait I did my dog, Zoe. The normal photos I take of her tend to be random snapchat or of her sleeping, neither of which were going to have a good composition for this project. One afternoon I did a little pet photo shoot to get a different composition than some of the existing pictures I have of her, which consisted of me rolling around in the grass while my dog just sat their enjoying the attention. I did my piece in prisma to try to capture the texture of her fur better. Before I started I decided to add some purple and teals into her coat because being white it would have been harder to capture all the texture. I ended up using more purple than I intended, but it helped me capture the shadows in the picture and the darker tones around her eyes and mouth. I did practice a lot off to the side especially for the facial features and practicing the fur texture. I found when doing the fur I always had to keep my pencils very shape or all the colors started to blend together more losing the texture. For the grass I asked Kearstyn for tips since in her reflection piece she did a soccer field. She told me to just capture the darks and the lights of the different layers of grass which really helped. I decided to just leave the sky plain since the front of the piece had a lot of detail, but I wished I would have at least added some cloud coverage to add some more depth.
Overall, I like how this piece turned out. I love the highlight of her nose and the detail in the grass and the fur. When I first started with the fur I thought this project was never going to end, but once I did the nose first I was able to get a groove. There are a few things I would change like the sky and add a little more variance in fur length and direction. This being only my second prisma drawing really allowed me to see a big difference between my watch drawing and the pet portrait, and I hope to continue to improve on my prisma technique.