Emily

playing with ideas: I've been messing around with scanning some quick drawings into photoshop and trying to make them look half reasonable. Deciding to steer more towards children's idealisations of the common red fox . here's what I've come up with. Not sure if they're cute or creepy, either way, they're more fox designs!  swift, sharp lines, glaring eyes stand out fox X

Playing around with ideas of the stereotypical fox character. Cheeky, mischievous, cunning, sly, all words that spring to mind, and I think are widely used in children's characterisations of the fox . water colour of a fox teasing a bulldog on a lead: in the woods, getting dark, dog is not very haps

For me, an obvious starting point into my Fox research was to begin with the skeleton, and what better place to start than with the skull. In comparison to other Canidae skulls, for example the Jackal, Wolf or Coyote, the Foxes is noticably more streamlined, with a longer a thinner snout, and a more flat surface on its head. Maybe this is so they can glide through the night at a much faster, swifter pace. or so they can burry their heads into the burrows of their prey. I can only assume the shape of the skull is largely at the foxes advantage for these reasons.  Here is my take on a Foxes skull, and underneath is a small Photoshop experimentation with the 'curves' of the image: the second version looks kindof like a mirrored/glass surface, ish X

Current project: Research Methodology I have decided to dedicate this project to exploring every aspect of the well known species member to the canidae family, the fox . In my early attempts to research the mammal I quickly realised that there was not only one species of fox to choose from, but over 25 of them. so I decided to firstly whittle my decision down to the main 12 Vulpes or ' true fox ' variations.  These include: Arctic fox Bengal fox Blanford's fox Cape fox Corsac fox Fennec fox Kit fox Pale fox Rüppell's fox Red fox Swift fox Tibetan sand fox I originally intended to make quick sketches of each of these members of species, and I still wish to do so, even though I am quite certain that I am to continue my research based on either the Red fox or the Fennec fox, as they were both the most outstandingly interesting and artistically inspiring to me.  Fennec Foxes, cute.

Hi my name is Emily May Allison, and I draw I have been an Illustration Student at the University of Portsmouth since september 2013, and so far loving the course. On this blog I will be posting some of my work from the projects I have committed myself to during my course, however also I will post general artwork I have produced alongside uni work.  Enjoy! x