This past weeks unit was sound. I chose to draw a roaring lion.. I had to chose weather to draw my lion out in color, or to go with black and white. I had the image down below for inspiration, I sketched out the mouth first in pencil and went from there. I spent more than enough time on my sketch. I basically drew the whole lion out on the white paper and all in pencil. I wanted to enlarge the drawing, but then it like altered the whole face so I gave that idea up. I used a light box to trace the same image in actual drawing paper. I wanted the drawing to be black and white based. Without even practicing I grabbed the charcoal and just went at it! I ended up really liking the end result, and Mrs. Barnett helped inspire me to put "ROAR" in the background the way I did. While I was randomly coloring my lion with the black charcoal I was really nervous. I'm a really hands on person, so I chose to smudge the charcoal all over and use my eraser like my best friend. I didn't want the image to be all muddy, so I used the grey and white charcoal as well. Sidenote! The reason to why I chose to draw this lion was simple, I like cats. In my opinion, regular cats have too much detail with the fur and everything, and a lion was easier to draw. When people see my drawing I hope they feel powerful and feel like they can literally hear the lion roaring, on top of a cliff lol. My lion is loud and proud, I hope I drew it well enough to get this little point across. Whenever people view my artwork, I hope they can see me in it. I feel all my artwork kind of seems the same and has the same message. Nature.