Anisha Evans Illustration: February 2010

Sunday, 21 February 2010

Whiles doing my research for this project I came across the Guardian website, 'In picture the Noughties - a decade of lost species. I decided to look into the theme Environmental which led me to the Red list of threatened species website. The site itself has a lot of useful information regarding all kinds of animal species. This is where my research really started to have an outcome; I looked into animals that became critically endangered,Extinct in the wild and extinct all in the Noughties.

http://www.iucnredlist.org/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/oct/21/decade-lost-species?picture=354566473

Extinct in the wild = EW = Triangle
Extinct = EX = Circle
Critically endangered = CR = Square
I came up with my own sign for each categories of animals with mathematics shapes.

Photoshop/pixel developments

Experiment with different background,texture , colour and technique on Photoshop.

Saturday, 20 February 2010

Digital Imaging ( drawings development)

Right: Map location drawings of where each animal are native, extinct in or are kept in captive (extinct in the wild). Left: symbols for each category of animals.

Top left: Western black rhino, CR, less then 50 mature individuals http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/39319/0/full
, maybe already extinct. Down: Hawaiian Crow, EW, 53 left in captive. Top right: Pachnodus velutinus (snail), EX in 2000. Down: Golden toad, EX, Regionally extinct in Costa Rica. Oryx dammah, EX year accessed 2008, 370 left in captive in Tunisia, Senegal and Morocco.

More Development drawing of the Golden toad, Oryx dammah and Spix’s macaw with different drawing techniques.

First initials ideas of how to represent the animals. Top left is of the Spix’s macaw with a tag that reads: extinct: £00.00. (With more research I found that their critically endangered, not extinct.) Top right is the idea that I develop on towards the final pieces.