Week 9- Updated sketches

Hey guys,
Thanks to your suggestions I went these two ways  with my concept. The top one is of the rooster looking up at the sky while all the other chickens are pecking at their food.
The other way I went is of a young chicken looking up at the birds flying in the sky copying them only to learn that is a grounded bird.
In both images I exaggerated the size of their feet so it subtly makes them appear more weighted to the ground. I animated the faces slightly by cartooning the eyes, more so in the young chick.
Which one do you guys like better?
I plan on doing full color and I think I would like to do a realistic background. The medium will probably be water color base layered with color pencils and then finishing details in acrylic. Any suggestions or thoughts would be great to hear!

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The remix

I played with the "stand", moving it around a bit. I think its new position improves the readability. Although I am aware the "stand" kinda looks like "spand", the final will be much better.

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Updated Sketch

This is an updated sketch of the idea that I had in mind. I decided to make it more into a scene. I was having a hard time trying to come up with a crowded city only because I am not good with drawing straight lines. So for my concept, I have a young teen looking up to the sky and in front of him towards the distant is a hot air balloon departing away towards the city which is seen from a distance. On the hot air balloon I will add a quote saying "Sadness flies away with the wings of time". it's universal, I don't have an actual answer of what it is that he is longing but this is the part where I want the audience to connect themselves to the individual that is shown, and perhaps looking at the image can remind some one of a certain event that was either an important moment, or a memory that brings back feelings.
 For medium I am still not sure what I want to work with. However, I have in mind of working with color pencils because it can bring a lot of texture and I don't really work with color pencils so it might be interesting to try it out with this project.

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week 8 Unrequited puppy love

I always considered myself more of a dog person than a cat person. I actually feel more compassionate to a dog than to human being. I think this is because you can always count on a dog to give you unconditional love. Even if you have a bad day, you can always count on your dog to make you feel like you're worth something. I actually got this idea for a drawing at the dog beach. There I witnessed a man on a his cell phone completely ignoring this adorable puppy at his feet. The small dog looked up at the man towering over it with this happy expression on its face, while the man on the phone seemed too preoccupied to even care about the dog. I found this scene pretty heart breaking and decided to illustrate it. I decided to give my illustration a faux-naive feel to it to give it a feeling of innocence. I also plan on using charcoal and crayon on my final piece.

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