starting the composition

Ive been busy collecting images of animals from local zoos and open farms together with local street life, its taken some time to develop a story that the composition holds, its made from several street scenes and of course as you can see several different animals that wouldnt normally asscociate with each other. Placing them carefully to create an air of normality , the every day.

subtle nuance of posture can suggest interaction, conversations being held, a social conformity. Its important at this stage to create the right composition. The next stage is to transfer the image to paper using graphite as my medium. Its not going to be a direct copy of the picture, theres gesture and texture that can enhance this scene will be hard to appreciate that on a computer screen but as the drawing develops I will show the process and detail some of the processes I use.