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The perspective piece has always been a favorite of mine.  I love to create buildings and a little world of my own.  A perspective world looks so different from a world that is hand made because all of the angles are so perfect.  Each building looks like it could be one down the street, disregarding the color of course.  I had difficulty getting the sky to look the way I wanted and I wish it was more blue, but overall I think it went well.  I wanted the center road to be a kind of landing strip for flying cars that exist in that universe.  I love the crazy colors of the buildings and the whimsical feel it gives the piece.

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The portrait was difficult for me because I have never been able to draw faces particularly well.  I learned a lot in this class about how to draw each individual aspect of the face and then I was able to combine them all to make one cohesive face.  The hair was difficult but definitely interesting to figure out.  I tried out several styles of drawing for the hair and ended up combining some of my ideas for the final product.
My idea for the face was to combine several races into one face.  I combined my Korean friend's face, my European friend's face, and my own to create a mix.  I think I was able to show the combination in my end product.

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I chose to combine several animals to create my character.  It is a combination of a tiger, a leopard, and the ears of a Gerenuk.  I also wanted to combine the environments of each of the animals I chose to combine.  I added grasslands from the home of a tiger and the Gerenuk and the vines and leaves of a jungle for the leopard.
The shadows were one of the more difficult portions of the project.  They are made of many colors layered on top of one another to create a deeper value that adds a realistic quality.

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I used the colors from one of the magazine pieces to create a background for the piece.  It is light and colorful, just like the rest of the left hand side.  It has a nice contrast to the darker values on the other side, and the colors were mixed to match the colors in the magazine squares.  I used greens and blues to create the green color on the left hand side for the background.  The mix is made to match the color in the magazine square.

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The image is split directly in half with light, warm colors on the left and dark, cool colors on the right accept for one accent to show that even good times have a little darkness and no matter how bad things get, there is always a silver lining.
I began coloring the right side and darkening the already existing colors.  I wanted nature to be a reoccurring theme throughout the piece, representing the circle of life.

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The final product has a contrast from one side to the other by using mostly light colors on the left and darker values on the right.  There are a few points of overlap as a reminder that even in the darkest times there is always some light and when the world is at it's best, it is never perfect so don't spend your life trying to perfect it.
Throughout the project I had to work with colors to get them to match the colors from the magazine.  One thing that went well was the green vines coming out from the left two corners.  The green fades well from dark to light in both of those.  Something that was more difficult was the use of black on the right side of the picture.  Trying to get the black to fade from black in the center to white at the edge was difficult, but I think I understood how by the end.

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I began to add the color to the left side of the image.  The image was going to separate lights and darks to show the contrast between happy and unhappy parts of life.

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After deciding on the end product, I created a light layout on a piece of paper that would eventually be the end product.  I had split the page in half and decided to work on one side of the project at a time.  I started with the left side.

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First, I laid out the basic structure of the drawing by adding the magazine squares to a piece of paper.  After trying many different layouts, I came up with an idea.  All four pieces of magazine pages had to connect within the drawing.
Each of the five boxes needed to be incorporated into a drawing.  I knew right away that I wanted to work with lights and darks, so I started by separating the two down the middle.As I continued, I chose how I would be using each piece and what the end goal was for each square.  I wanted a cohesive picture and I wanted to use nature in some way.