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I gained a lot of experience in acrylic, a medium I’m not very comfortable with. Doing such a small piece has helped me learn not to treat acrylic like oil (i.e., do thin, smooth layers, prioritize speed over color matching, etc). I also didn't have much experience in painting animals, and it was interesting to try to balance between capturing likeness and "looking right" with something I don't observe very often.

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One of the areas of the grid I used was one that mentioned using children’s media, which inspired this piece (Mr. Rogers had a huge influence on both my and my mom’s childhoods). I used crayon to form a childlike look while also taking inspiration from Byzantine paintings of saints, hence the halo, border, and centered composition. I think the face turned out incredible, especially having been done in crayon. One thing I learned is that I’m never working with yarn again—it took me 8 hours and it’s not even finished. If I were to do it again, I think I would do one of the other backgrounds from my thumbnails. Some of the shading techniques, especially for skin tones, I learned from working with crayons will help me in the future with colored pencils because crayons are basically colored pencils on expert mode.

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Won't You Be My Neighbor?

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Ella, Ringo, and the Georges

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Federalist No. 10

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"Can I Take a Picture of You Drawing?"

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Thanos Bonsai

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(No matter what I try, this picture refuses to upload at a higher resolution.)

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