For the wolf image, I wanted to draw my own to ensure it fit around the space I was going to create in my final piece. I began looking at simple face length portrait sketches of wolves to replicate. The top one is a cubist impression, so I did my own and compared it with the wolf sketch I replicated below, which is much more realistic. At this point, I was unsure where I was going to take my wolf piece; whether it would be abstract or realist. After comparing the two results, I decided the realistic one was of better quality and evolved my final piece around that. As much as I wanted to include a certain cultural style for the wolves, the only one is Native American art. However I feel it is too distinguished and would draw less attention from the scenario and focus more on the artwork its self. So I decided to choose a simple sketch and let the rest of the scenery that I'd recreate in photoshop speak for the piece, ambiance-wise.
For the kangaroo piece, I was inspired by aboriginal dot work. As part of this conversation brief is to demonstrate several forms of communication, I realized art was one of them. I therefore decided to research artwork themes that correspond with the topics i'd chosen (wolves peacocks and kangaroos) such as the culture and nationality associated with them. Kangaroos are native to Australia, so I began researching aboriginal artwork. For the kangaroos, the communication was males "boxing" for a female, so I had to replicate two different looking kangaroos to represent genders. As there would be two of the male, I decided to create a more minimal and simple design for them, as they would also be in the mid-ground (therefore further away) as the female would look on from the foreground, closer to the eye. So I chose a piece more detailed for the female. The colours between the two are very similar as I didn't want completely different styles of dot work, but I came across two that were similar but different colours; the males would be black and white and the female would be black, white as well as orange; just to segregate them so a viewer can easily distinguish what's happening in this scene.This was the easiest out of the three animals to choose an artistic style for, as they are a strong icon recognized by the western world and they represent each other; not just one to the other.
For the peacocks, the idea was to focus on the term "peacocking", which in the animal kingdom is providing an aesthetic display in order to mate. Peacocks do this like no other species with their tail feathers. As they are stunningly unique, I wanted the piece to focus on them and began looking at peacock artwork. The more I looked, the more I found abstract art consisting of distorting the nature of the feathers in some way.
I found this << and saw they'd turned the feathers into paisley patterns. As peacocks are the national species of India, this inspired me to look at Indian patterns to represent the feathers, which is when I came across henna tattoo patterns and got the idea to fill them in with colours and gradients consisting of typical peacock colours like blues, turquoise and greens. After looking at many, I strategically chose patterns that slightly resembled the paisley patterns I found earlier as I felt they represented feathers whilst maintaining an abstract look.
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