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I got the inspiration for this drawing by a photograph I took of my friend. I was a bit doubtful that I could draw a full side body figure because I don't draw those a lot and this was my first time drawing it for a final piece. The size of the paper was also tricky, I kept erasing over and over because the figure would either be too small or too big and I wanted to have less negative space. The success for this piece has to be how similar this piece looks to the original photograph and the detail I put into the shoes and jacket. In the original picture, there was a white wall and I decided to change that in my painting because I didn't want my piece to just be black and white so I decided to do a baby blue. The story for this piece is that everyone is there own galaxy living in this world. So, the boy has a galaxy face and the baby blue is suppose to represent life here on earth. I love doing pieces that have a meaning behind it and that's exactly what I wanted to do for this piece. Some dissatisfactions I have with this piece is that the paper crinkled up, the brush strokes aren't as neat as I wish they were, and I would've like to make the piece more neat. If I were to do this project again, I would take more time doing the galaxy on the face and overall making this piece more neat. I enjoyed working with a big piece because it gave me more space to work with. This is a project I'd enjoy working on again.

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Ebony Pencil
Acrylic
Watercolor
Paint Brush

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Mid April

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Early March

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Brush strokes

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I got the inspiration by a cardboard piece that was on the table by me. I chose to do this certain cardboard piece because it was so well built and it was tall. The tallness gave me a chance to draw it out and use a lot of space on the canvas. It also reminded me of a castle and that's something that caught my eye. Some of my successes in my piece are that when I was thinking on how to do the background I envisioned doing fast strokes with the brush and using three colors. I expected it to be more messy but it ended up becoming how I wanted it to look like. That was one of my successes, getting more out of my piece than I expected. I thought the castle was going to be tricky but once I started sketching it out it turned out to look just like the cardboard piece. The colors I chose were to represented the sky and the grass and it came out to look how I wanted it to look, that was another success. I learned how to look at an object and carefully pay attention to detail in order for me to draw it out on the canvas. I've never drawn a building so this was my first and its something I would do again. I don't really like how the stairs turned out because they look a bit disorganized and wiggly. If I had to do this project again, I would've liked to add more detail to the building such as bricks to emphasize it more. The stairs I would have fixed so they don't look messy. Overall, I enjoyed making this project.

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Mechanical Pencil
Acrylic (white, blue, green, and black)
Paint Brush

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Late May

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Structure and Fantasy
Early May

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This is the first project I decided to take a bit of a risk and do something I've never done before. I didn't want to follow the basic idea of making it look realistic and using skin tone colors, I wanted to experiment with it and do something fun. I got the inspiration online seeing  paintings and the artists would use the paint brush and paint fast strokes on the canvas then use different colors. I liked how it looked and thought I'd give it a try. After some attempts, I decided to do that technique as one of my pieces because I've never done something like that and I enjoyed doing that technique. That was something new I learned and would defenitly continue doing paintings like that. Some struggles I had with this piece was that painting some of the details on the eyes were tricky because I'm working with only two colors. It was a bit difficult creating the shadows and keeping the eyes looking similar. I don't really like how I painted the eyebrows as they don't look similar. The left eye has more detail than the right eye so that it something I would've changed. If I had the chance to redo the project, I would have liked to add a different color like black or brown just to emphasize more details. Also, I would have liked to add more details to the eyes to make it more realistic. I liked doing the background and that's something I enjoyed doing. Overall, this was a nice project and experience to work on because it gave me a learning experience and it's a project I would like to do again.

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I finished coloring the piece and it was a bit hard to mix the colors of the different color schemes of each picture. I'm proud of how close I got to coloring the drawings like the original picture and how barely you can see the real photographs. I wanted the main flower to have elements of each plant so I drew and colored around the flower. I did my best to not make the piece looked like it had  4 different sections of color and drawings so by avoiding this I mixed the three types of flowers/plants together so they overlapped. I'm proud on how neat it looks and the color scheme works very well with the original picture. If I had to change some things, I would've liked to add more of a similar color to the main flower because I can notice the small square and blend the two types of plants better because one has a black background while the other is was more lighter so it looks a bit sectioned. Overall, I'm proud of how it looks because it turned out better than I expect it to be.

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I decided to start adding color to the main flower. Adding color was a bit difficult for me because it was hard creating the exact color as the picture so that took some time to experiment. It was a learning experience to know how to blend and mix colors to get different colors. I liked the idea of making the outer petals more lighter than the others because it felt more realistic to me than having all of the petals the same color.

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I decided to change the placement of the green plant because I didn't like how it looked because I felt I wouldn't have space to add the green plant in step #2. I erased some of the petals in step #2 because they were too small for my liking so I decided to make the petals more larger to take up more space. The pink flower was my most successful in trying to make it similar to the picture. The green plant was the hardest because there was barely any detail to it and didn't give much so I decided to create some of my own leaves in the picture but still follow the theme of the picture. I wanted to corporate equal amounts of the outer plants, leaves, and the flower so the yellow flower is still the main focus and fill up the negative space that was left.

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I started drawing some of the plants to get a look on how the placement was going to look. I kept in mind the different shapes and sizes to try and make it look as close to the actual photograph. I wanted to get a feel on how they were going to look so I can keep in mind that I needed to combine all of it. I worked on capturing the details on the flowers a bit more to make them more realistic.

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I used my garden as my inspiration for this piece. I wanted to have a main element in my piece so I chose to have the flower be just that. I have a yellow blossom outside my house and it's surrounded by leaves and other plants. That was how I wanted to lay out my piece and have a mix of different plants and leaves. I started off in the corner so I can choose how big I wanted to draw my flower and be able to add or subtract petals. It also gave me a lot of space to work with. I laid out the other pictures to get an idea on where I wanted to stop with the flower.

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Ebony Pencil
Acrylic
Paint Brushes

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Late March

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April

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Close up #2

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Close Up

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Ebony Pencil
Color Pencils

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Late February

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February