Animal Scratchboard

Art Challenge

Create a Scratchboard illustration of an animal or something from nature using the techniques of hatching, crosshatching, and stippling

Animals

Draw an animal eating another animal.
Draw your art teacher in a fight with an animal.
Draw an animal playing a musical instrument.
There is an animal living in one of your appliances. Draw it.
Draw a dead bird in a beautiful landscape.
Draw something from a pet’s point of view.
Draw an animal taking a bath.
Draw an animal taking a human for a walk.
Combine 3 existing animals to create a completely new creature.
Draw a family portrait. Plot twist: It is a family of insects or animals.
Draw an animal playing a musical instrument.
Draw the most terrifying animal you can imagine. Or the most adorable.
Draw an animal, or two, that are made up of some other type of element or substance.

Use references, but not from your phone. Print them out or use Manders images from the folders.
Create a closed and balanced composition
Finish your drawing with ink, watercolor, marker, or colored pencil
Don't forget about the "5 C's" when creating aesthetically pleasing artwork:
1. Composition - how you organize art elements into your drawing to enhance principles of design
2. Creativity - how original your ideas project through your artwork
3. Craftspersonship - how clean in your work. How careful where you when creating
4. Content - how your work communicates to the viewer
5. Color (or also tone...but it doesn't start with a C...) - how engaging your work will be to the eye
Begin by sketching lightly. Go to the "Daily Sketchbook" link under Drawing C and watch ZHC sketch. Take some cues from him.