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This project was supposed to be done for the SRQ competition. I used a reference photo of some African American woman dressed up as an African princess. The lady in the picture had bright green eyes so I thought I'd add some color to her eyes to enhance that feature and added some color to her lips because they were already so prominent anyways.

This was the caricature piece we were supposed to do. I drew miley Cyrus because she has such an odd style that I thought would be fun to draw, especially her hair. I think I got her teeth done pretty well. I used graphite which made it easier to shade, but I still need to go back and touch it up.

I did this piece for the project where we were supposed to reference a master artist. I think she turned out pretty well, I like her rosy cheeks. I purposely didn't add eyebrows because the woman in the piece I referenced didn't have eyebrows. I started this project in pencil then colored it with colored pencil. 

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I got my inspiration for this piece from a picture I saw on Pinterest. It was colored green and had birds instead of clouds in the sky. I also added the dripping colors to fill the space that the original picture had. 

I started this project by drawing the trunk and branches in pencil then colored them in with ink. After I finished that, I sketched the basic shape of the leaves, then painted it in starting with the blue on the right. To avoid leaving so much white space, I added the black clouds so it didn't take away from the tree as the main focus. 

The tree represents a calming effect nature has. Using cool colors makes the piece more inviting and in my opinion, prettier to look at. The clouds show that there's so many objects in nature that are beautiful.

Overall, I think the project turned out very well. I really like the texture the tree looks like it has. I think the colors look very nice together as well.

I submitted this piece for my breadth section. This was painted in acrylics. I started with the background, making it fade lighter as it went up. Then I painted the black landscape over the background to make the sunset more prominent. My favorite part of the painting are the clouds though because I really like texture and shading in them.

This doodle with bright ombréd colors was drawn in ink and colored pencil for a breadth piece in my art portfolio. I referenced a work similar to this to come up with the leaves and such but I used different colors and designs to fill in the leaves with. Overall, I think this turned out nicely. It helped me work on blending colored pencils together.

Children's illustration

This project was assigned to make me be original and come up with my own children's illustration of fairy tale. As I listed a few animals and scenes, I came up with a baby monkey getting excited once he saw a man in a banana suit running down the city streets. I drew this in colored pencil and for a children's drawing I think I captured it well.

Play on words

The point of this project was to create an image to represent a commonly used phrase, or a "Play on words." I chose for my saying to be "a cup of joe," so I drew a coffee mug with a man named joe floating around in the coffee. This was completely done in colored pencil. I think it turned out nice for the assignment, but definitely wasn't one of my best illustrations.

This piece was drawn first in graphite then traced over in sharpie and colored with colored pencil. I think what I portrayed is represented well in this piece, most smokers are very skinny and as you can see her head looks very large compared to her body, which is more bone than muscle or fat. I don't really like the shirt but I think the shape of her body looks decent.

I drew this woman in graphite and I haven't decided if I like her or not. I don't think her nose and lips are proportioned or shaped well. I think the hair is okay, it could've been shaded better. And the collar bones aren't centered. Other than that, I think the shading on her face is done well as well as the wisps of hair.

I got the inspiration for this piece from a project I found on Pinterest. Instead of drawing red ladybugs and only three stems, I added more leaves coming from different sides of the paper. The leaves had a design on them in the original picture as well.

I didn't use graphite at all in the piece. I initially drew the leaves in sharpie, then made the ends thicker than the middle of the stem. Then I drew in the ladybugs and colored them in with different colors to enhance the drawing and make it more enjoyable to look at.

This piece represents the simplicity of the ladybugs beauty. The lack of background brings out the main focus, which are the lady bugs on plants obviously. I decided to add detail to the leaves because it made the piece more interesting to look at. 

I think my ladybugs turned out good because they look similar to each other and are colored in nicely. The exact detail in the sharpie is done nicely also. The simplicity of the piece makes me like it. 

Drawing from a photo

I drew this lonesome barren tree on sharpie as well as the empty bench underneath the tree. This picture was taken in New York near my grandparents house and I decided to use it for the photography piece assigned in drawing because I liked the simplicity of the scene. It was a gloomy day so the picture was naturally in black and white so I decided it would look okay with just sharpie. I don't particularly like how the bench turned out, but I guess the crookedness could represent how old and lonely the place is since no one has resumed a seat on the bench in a while.

New Years project

The project was designed to show your New Years resolutions, but I didn't have any for myself so I used a few of the top resolutions of the 2014 year. To eat healthier, better grades, recycle more, to go to the gym more often and making more money were in the top ten so since I had already started drawing the female face in graphite I just decided to open her head to show all of her thoughts rather than completely starting over. The resolutions were all drawn in colored pencil. I think the woman looks alright, but not as shaded as dark as it could be. This was my first attempt at a colored pencil piece and I think it shows because I couldn't blend very well. Overall, I think the project fit the criteria but I'm not very pleased with the outcome.