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The color blue gives off a calming vibe while the background contradicts this because it is blurred lines with bright, loud colors. This shows that she is the calm in the fast moving world. The purple represents the independence. It was hard to get details in oil pastels because they are not thin at the tip.

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When I had first started drawing, I was really bad at drawing people and was struggling to get proportions right. Now, I have gotten a lot better at drawing faces and I am able to shade in the correct areas and make the drawings look more realistic. I would still like to get better at drawing objects because they are still looking two dimensional. The biggest way I have grown as an artist is by knowing when to add the right amount of detail and/or objects/ background to my drawing. I used to add more to the background, but I realized that the background can take away from the main piece of art. I would like to focus more on drawing animals or objects to get more practice on them. Overall, I am happy with my progress within the years.

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I decided to make the skin purple instead of the yellow because it stood out more from the blue and I was able to blend it better.

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I distorted the face to have the eyes, nose, and mouth not match together. I used colored pencil for the hair to add more detail to it than I could have with oil pastels.

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I went over the white oil pastel and blended it with the blue for the shirt.

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I began to draw the skin with yellow oil pastels until I realized the yellow blended in with the cardboard too much and was hard to get the different shades.

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I started to draw the portrait and went over the pencil with more pencil to made sure it really showed through.

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For the growth project, I decided to pick a baby crying, a little girl bored, and a women excited because this shows the growth of the human body and how facial features become stronger with age. Also, I chose a crying baby to show the growth of emotions. The emotions start with a crying baby and end with a women excited with are two very different emotions.

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The hardest thing to draw on the baby was the nose because it was hard to draw the nose on the upward angle, especially crying because I had to make the nose with a tint of red.

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I love the way the eyes turned out on the women because the excitement on her eyes showed through.

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The hand placement for the little girl was hard to draw because there was a shadow that was casted on her face which made it darker. I wanted to make it dark but not too drastically.

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Crying baby, bored girl, and excited women.

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I used the different pieces of paper for the background to show the different angles of the shoe. This did become difficult at some points because the background made it harder for the pencil to show through. I used white colored pencil on the purple, pink and black back grounds. I made the bow red to have that one bit of color show through the black and white.

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I used gradation on most of the shadows I drew in order have the final piece run more smoothly in transition since there were so many pieces.

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I started to use pastel dust on the background to make the colors in the front stand out.

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I traced over the pencil in pen after I traced over the shadows. I had a pinecone, bow, flowers, leaves, and my hand

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I used pen to draw on the pattern on the bow.

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Pencil

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Oil Pastel

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Pencil

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Pencil

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Pencil

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Markers

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Oil Pastels

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Oil Pastels