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The first image is just a character design based on a friend of mine. The three middle ones are drawings I did trying to find a new way of drawing by scribbling something out and then making it into something interesting. I wanted to work with pen because I do not have much experience with it. They are in order showing my growth through the photos. And the last one is a cartoonish painting of Edgar Allen Poe. I was experimenting with water color on cardboard and I liked how it looked sorta translucent.

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For the background I chose the color blue to show sadness and sorrows about death and little splotches of yellow to show that there might still be hope for life after death. I put photos of famous dead musicians on flies. The idiom means a group of people to drop dead or fall ill. All these musicians are someone people looked up too and they all passed away. This was to show death is a sad thing but they will be in a better place. (I do not have any photos showing my growth because I finished it all in one night and it just slipped my mind, apologies)

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I knew I wanted to draw someone in a shopping cart because the figure would be in a weird position and thought that would be challenging for me. I know we weren't supposed to have the figure just right in the center of the page so I interrupted the figure with the cart and added another cart to distract from the figure being in the center. I used water color for the background and the figure itself then I outlined the figure and the cart with pen. I wish I worked more on the background because it just looks messy and unorganized.

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In my opinion I think I have improved in the figures shape overall. I am able to make sure the proportions are accurate and that the hands and feet aren't too small or the legs too short. I think practicing with gesture drawings really helped because I was able to get the shape down and the go back and work on smaller details. I also think I improved in my hand drawings since you reccomended drawing the spaces inbetween instead of the hand itself. By drawing the spaces I was also able to get the shape of the figure down easier but had a bit trouble with spacing the air pockets too far or too close together

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If you wanted more depth you could add more bees close and far
The one honeycomb in the left looks very stranded. I would find a way to connect that to make it flow

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(feet practice)

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My art shows growth because when I started my shading was jagged and not smooth but by the end my shading with colors gave the objects shape and shadows. I mainly struggles with the pink shading into the purple. I hope to one day be able to shade with color pencil so it is smooth and does not look like pencil.

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At first we had to draw puncheons without looking at our paper and that was challenging for me because i kept losing where I was and forgetting what part I was looking at. Then I just played around with it drawing the faces and it got easier as I practiced more. For the flowers a challenge i experienced was that my pen dies half way through so i had to get a new pen and thats why the flowers are a different color than the pots they are in. I have grown during this project because I would get lost in the beginning and keep loosing where I was but by the end I knew what I was doing and exactly what I was drawing and I didn't need to watch myself draw. I would like to become better at drawing without having to look at what I am drawing as frequently

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For my Growth Theme Show Project, I decided to make a collage inspired by civilization. It starts out from the left. The left being nature, before civilization. It is peaceful and not disturbed by anything. But then people start coming in and building buildings and inventing and innovating. When they are inventing there is less nature and the green starts to fade away into the yellow which represents the foundation. The foundation is becoming dull. The one car at the end of the road is trying to escape the cycle of civilization but fails. And by the end, on the right side civilization is a mess. There is no more structure and everything had become dull and gray. When I started the project I had trouble figuring out where I wanted to place certain things but by the time I started it all just came to me and it was quite easy to figure out where I wanted things to go. I wish to improve on more of what I could do with the background of the collage

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For my observational project I looked at items from my key chain and drew them in all different locations and from different angles. I placed the two keys over the others and at an angle so that they are pointing towards other aspects of the project. I also divided up the drawing with boxes to give it an organized look. I choose bright colors on dark so that the keys stood out to others and they could see that they had significance in the drawing. I shaded everything else with a pencil so that the keys stood out even more. At the begining i struggles with getting different shades with just a pencil but by the end I was able to shade evrything with only one pencil. In the future I would like to become better at shading with colored pencils so they look smooth

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For my final project of face practice. I did a portrait on cardboard using old pastel. I choose the colors green, pink, and purple for a specific reason. I chooses purple because purple represents royalty and I think everyone should treat themselves once in a while as if they are royalty. I choose green because it represents growth and I think I have grown as a person. And lastly I chooses the color pink for my hair because pink usually represents being playful and charming. I chooses it mainly because with my friends I am considered to be the funny one and very playful. For the background I choose the color yellow. Yellow represents positivity and in my life today I am surrounded by positivity and people supporting me and loving me for who I am. There are grey hexagons in the background as well because sometimes there are dull people in my life who bring me down but I am able to over come them and focus on the positivity. Some struggles I had was trying to make the dark on light green look natural. In the future I think I would like to be better at shading light on dark colors.