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.