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Date Completed: 11/12/16
Materials Used: Colored Pencil
Reflection:
This project was by far the most fun to work on because there were so many different directions I could have gone, so I decided to combine animal growth with plant growth. It was a great project because I had so many ideas to work off of.
My greatest strength was the shading on the main figure–the horse– to make it look more realistic. I am also proud of the way the legs on the horse turned out because I was able to successfully make them look like the trunks of a tree and they gradually spread out to become the horse's body. One thing I struggled with was the excess space around the main figure. I was not sure what to do with it, so it looks a bit unfinished and sloppy in my opinion.
I learned the importance of filling up the space and spending time on the small details; because in the end it makes the piece more complete and appealing.

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Date Completed: 10/15/16
Materials Used: Colored Pencil, CrayPas, Chalk
Reflection:
This project was based off a photo of a Bonsai tree taken at the Botanical Gardens. My greatest strength was making the tree leaves appear to have depth by adding dark shadows and various shades of green. I enjoyed working on this piece because I was able to experiment more with CrayPas and learn how chalk effects the piece when combined with other materials.
I am not happy with the rough look around the corners of the tree and cliff, and in the sky. I realized the reason for this is because I used chalk over CrayPas. Though I am not pleased with the outcome of my mistakes, I am glad I was able to learn from them.

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Date Completed: 12/17/16
Materials Used: Graphite, Colored Pencil
Reflection:
This was my final piece for the semester. To draw this portrait I based it off of a general photo of myself facing to the side. Not only was it based off my physical self, but my personality as well. I used blue colored pencils because the color blue represents Trust, Truth, Loyalty, and Calmness.
These are all traits I stand strongly for. I try my best to be truthful and loyal to my friends, family and peers, so I thought this would be a good way to represent myself. I also added various patterns to not only fill up the negative space, but to represent my happiness and all the thoughts I have that radiate off of me every day. I am proud of the accuracy of the hair to my own, and the nose/eye area to my own. I also like the way the eyes are shwoing my expression.
I am not happy with the use of negative space in this piece because I feel like I should have added more color, and I would like to improve upon the lips and mouth of my face. I struggled mainly with making the portrait really look like my own self and having the piece look more naturally put together to make it stand out more clearly from the background.

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Date of Completion: 9/20/16
Materials Used: Ebony Pencil, Colored Pencil, CrayPas
Reflection:
This was my first project of Drawing and Painting level one. My greatest strength demonstrated in this piece was the illusion of depth that I created by using dark colors to emphasize the shadows, and lighter colors to show highlights. I also used yellows in the negative space to allow the flowers to really pop out, this worked well because yellow and blue are such contrasting colors.
From working on this piece, I learned that the areas where you emphasize highlights and shadows are very important. Also, it is important to be conscious of variations in high and low lights when trying to create a more realistic image.
My biggest struggle while making this piece was learning how to use CrayPas, as I have no previous experience with them. There are multiple aspects of this piece that I would like to improve upon, but the main one is that I wish I added more dark shadows around the edges of the flowers because they look more 2-D than I would prefer