Tell an untold story

We was given the task to choose a second destination. I didn't go to a location because I was inspired by a grumpy fox I bumped into late at night. I have a love for farm and urban animals. I chose to go with my inspiration and to make more a body of work based on nature. 

•  I started my sketch book work by going to the local woods behind my accommodation. I could have drawn lots of trees and bush but I felt I was just drawing that for the sake of filing pages in my book I wanted to draw things that truly inspired me to draw them.

• the depth of the oath way inspired me to draw this one. If you looked closely and long enough you could see the trees was slightly different colour by distance. I exaggerated this and documented it. 

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• the knotts and the perspective of look up at the tree made me wonder if I could express that in my sketch book.

• bumping into animals was beging to become a challange, so documented the sounds I could here from my room window and used photos that I had collected from my stay here in leeds . 

• I couldn't see an owl but I could hear them.

• magpie and hesghog drawings from photos 

• this is the image I have in my mind of the fox that was slightly aggressive and protective. 

• my window back on to feilds and woodland from my window I see foxes running in and out of the woods. By chance I saw a fox scrounging. I had to keep whistling for about 30 seconds to draw it. I added the grey wash after my observational drawing 

• hare drawings are drawn from Google images. Before this I researched what urban animals there are in leeds 

-badger 

-fox 

-hate

-hesghog 

-rats 

And birds too many to List. 

 

• after collecting a body of work, I was at a lose end of how I could make my animals into a book. After speaking to my tutor he gave me the direction to develop a book about urban animals, maybe a picture book of a list of illustration of urban animals with in Leeds or to focus on one and document its behaviour and personalitys or how a urban animal differs from a country animal. All positive and exciting leads.