Resources for 5 and 6

For 5 and 6, the flying creature (dragon) will be climbing up a giant tree which has grown wrapped around a giant stalagmite, in hopes of getting back up to the surface. I'll color the parts that are the vegetation  and the giant stalagmite because the light breaking in through the cave's ceiling will be enough to distinguish colors.

The 5th one will have the tree and stalagmite with the light shining onto it along with some birds and/or insects fluttering around it. The dragon will be some ways off looking at this giant spectacle, yet still dwarfed by it.

The 6th will be a close up of the baby dragon as it tries to climb its way up to the surface, which will be the escape from its second "prison", the first being the egg.

Concentration 3 and 4

Concentration #3

Concentration #4

*These works relate to my central idea because they continue to chronicle the story of the egg from my first two works. In the 3rd concentration the egg has reached the bottom of the chasm and hatched into some creature, and seems to be preyed upon by many different other creatures. In the 4th concentration the creature uses an odd power to "light the dark". The reason behind why these artworks have little to no color in them is because I wanted to show how dark it was inside of the cave, so much so that you wouldn't be able to see anything in color unless there was light coming in from the outside.

*I believe I have shown growth by getting better at showing my shading with pencil, as well as better establishing my light source. Also, even though this is a fictional world I'm portraying the creature in, I made the mistake in 2 and 3 to make it look abstract, to the point where you wouldn't be able to understand what you were looking at.

Concentration 2

Concentration #2

The egg falling through a fissure in the misty earth.

Concentration 1/ Explanations for Concentrations 1 & 2

Concentration #1

*These first two works demonstrate my central idea because they begin to tell the story of the flying creature. The creature begins to break out of it's first prison; the egg. In the 2nd concentration, it's violent shaking makes it fall into yet another prison, which won't be so easy to 'break out of'.

*What I feel is successful about each is that I was able to better show the scenes I made in my rough drafts better then how they looked at first. Also because I feel like the story is transitioning nicely. 

*They connect because in both I used chalk pastel, as well as they chronicle the egg's story. They show growth because they are the finalization of the idea I had in the first place.

*The goals I have for my next few works is to continue to show the creature's growth, as well as more openly voice the meanings behind the artworks.

Rough Ideas For 1st 3 Works

I have a clear idea for my 1st concentration work, the only difference my final 1st work is going to have  is that it'll be in color, less cracks on the "main" egg, better shading, and more geographical components (the mountain things and the cloud).

Now, as I was sketching this rough draft (crappily might I add) I began to formulate what the final 2nd work will look like. In the top right corner, I drew a little dark chasm with the egg falling down it. Sorry if you can't see it that well, I had already drawn the..bad one...when I thought of the one I'm really going to do.

This one kinda came along like the 2nd one, all I'm thinking about now is that it's going to be a cave-like place, with the cracked egg and the smaller baby dragon laying in the "rubble". It'll be a little while before i do this one though.

Things That Inspired This Idea

Just a picture of a cracked egg that I got from this website about preserving food (?). I took it because I like how the light is breaking out through/out of the egg, like something powerful is being born.

This one i got from another artists blog (I think its called 'joon.be'). I believe that even though some people might say animals aren't sentient (like people), they still have aspirations, dreams, and wants, even if it's just to survive. This bird's want to fly (and maybe survive) are deferred with a broken wing.

This last picture I got from someone's Tumblr page (think it's called brexian's cove). I picked it for similar reasons as the other bird picture, but not exactly the same. A dream can be deferred by coincidence or on purpose, and by that I mean by you or someone else. You defer yourself by believing you can't, or just giving up all together. And I'm sure you can guess how someone else can defer you.

So, Imma name It Flight

For my 12 concentration works I'm going to catalog the life of a flying creature, not completely sure what kind've creature it's going to be though. I wanted it to be a bird at first, but I got kinda unsure of that when Ms. Holliday suggested about the bird living in a kind of surreal environment (it sounded cooler than just a forest or a tree or something along those lines). I want it to represent freedom, growth, hard-headedness, the unachievable, and belief in oneself. It might sound like a lot of different subjects to be put into a story about something learning how to fly, but not too difficult to incorporate.