WWF Competition Piece - Painted Dog

 

WWF Competition Piece


Correy Taylor
Painted Dog, 2021
Digital piece
29.7cm x 21cm

I have created a digital competition entry for the David Attenborough Film Competition. The brief for this competition entry was to not only watch David Attenborough's Netflix Documentary, 'A Life on Our Planet' and to re-imagine a future world with our knowledge of sustainability and over-consumption from the documentary. I found the documentary to be really interesting but also very upsetting to see the real damage that humans have caused on our planet and the negative environmental impacts that we have created due to one-use plastics and air and waste pollution that has a major effect on our natural environment and the animals that live there. I researched into WWF and the endangered species list of 2020, which shows the pages and pages of endangered animals with a measurement of their endangerment and a description of their natural habitat and why they're endangered. Amongst the list of animals, I found interest in the Macaw Parrot, Spider Monkey, Turtles, Swift Fox, Orangutan and the African Wild Dog. After some experimentation, I decided that I really liked the African Wild Dog and I wanted my competition piece to showcase an endangered animal to bring awareness and to inform my audience of the decline in the species and why. My practise focuses on various issues that are sometimes controversial and I like to create illustrations that are informative and give a voice to those who want change in our society. My practise usually focuses on women's health and I have never looked at this part of our environment. I really enjoyed this short brief as I had to be instinctual and I kept my ideas in a sketchbook that I worked on nearly everyday as a way to illustrate my ideas and a place for note-taking for the documentary. Overall I really like the finalized digital piece, created for the competition entry as I really like the warm tones used and the pop of colour in the background. I firstly created the African Wild Dog, starting off with a pencil sketch and then I used a fine-liner to add my desired line-work. I then decided to paint the illustration using acrylics to create the tones of the painted dog. I tried to create a piece of work using double exposure, the combination of layering two images so that both show through. However, I found it very hard to get this technique to look good and I decided to instead, create a digital painting of the African Wild Dog. I really like how all the small painted details turned out and I think that the colours of the painted dog really stand out. I used the ink dropper tool in Adobe Photoshop to choose the background colour, representing sub-Saharan Africa the home of these beautiful animals. I also didn't want the background to be too busy or overcrowded. I wanted a plain background to convey loneliness and the endangerment of the species, represented in the negative space. To improve this piece, I would have definitely read the brief a little more as I assumed the brief was for interpretation due to the nature of watching the documentary however, I should have created something representing a new future instead of representing the endangered animals. I still really love this piece of work and though it works well in my portfolio, I should have created a piece more suitable for the competition entry.











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