Idea two/developing.

For idea two for my final design, my idea was a little silly, but it was basically a concept based on dog racing, except my dog had a little mouse actung as a sort of jockey, riding it and making it exercise, it was a little silly...

this was my first rough idea, Pretty basic, nothing to it, and I know what you're thinking: No machine right? Where's the machine?! Well, as much as I liked the idea, it needed to be developed! My dog wasn't realistic at all, or the mouse! So first thing was I needed to find images of dogs races.

I ideally wanted an image from a sideview.

Here is a scan of one of my illustrations based on the researched images I found, the dog's pose was much more powerful than in my original idea, In my first rough sketch, it basically looked my dog was prancing. And this dog needs to look like it's working hard and exercising!

Then I began to think about how I could incorporate a machine into this idea...

So i thought of maybe having the little mouse rider dangle a bone on a stick infront of the dog for him to chase...but then I was thinking a real mouse probably wouldnt do that, SO I considered maybe, mechanical mice? Mice that were programmed to do this, then technically they would be machines! It's a little far fectched but I think it is a fun idea. I also tried drawing a mouse from resource, seeing as mine are a bit more "cartoony" although I think that's okay, especially if they're going to maybe be mechnical mice....