After finishing the sketching, I decided to use a watercolor. I also decided to use slightly wet watercolour to paint darker patches of grass, and the road stretching along the coast of the water. To show the mirror like effect of the water onto the city, I went with two dimensional shapes as homes. I also made sure to include details of the homes onto the reflections to have a bit of realism.

This project has been a learning experience, for me as I've been able to enhance my skills by creating detailed artwork inspired by nature. Although there’s room for improvement in how I portray homes and their reflections in the lake I view these areas of weakness as opportunities for growth. The simplicity in depicting homes resembling animated cartoons helps me identify areas where I can refine my abilities. My goal is to explore designs that will enhance the visual appeal of the homes. Additionally I'm determined to master techniques for capturing deep reflections in the lake. All this project has served as a stepping stone towards self discovery and improvement offering important lessons that will contribute to my ongoing development, as an artist.

I used mostly 2b or 4b to create a path for my work with the pen. Starting out, I was using the 6b pencil for the bottom right section as I saw that there was a lot of dark sections but I switched over to using lighter tones as I would want to leave some space for the pen work instead of just graphite.

In all I felt like there was a lot of attention needed to be paid to certain details which were shapes or the strokes of the pen to create flows. And certain parts of the section should be darker than others or lighter than others. 

I really liked the textures of the objects in your drawing. I noticed how the feather had a really light tone but I was able to see it and it really helped reinforce the lightness of the feather. I also liked that the skull had a circular line on the side when the other parts of the skull had been drawn using hatching. I also think the background and the pages of the book was flawlessly completed as it really showed how the bold graphite slowly faded down to nothingness or the other way around. In all, I think this was great and really shows all of the five shading techniques.

I noticed your use of acrylic paint throughout your work and even more so on the bushes and flowers in the bottom left corner of the picture. As for colors, the roof of the golf cart and the dark grass are complementary colors as they are opposite of each other on the color wheel. Another example of complementary colors I saw was the contrast between red and green in the flower bushes. I would suggest considering the large pink mass on the right side of the image as I have not figured out what it may be.

I added a man with his headset and a woman in a meditation pose, creating a fun juxtaposition. I used a grid system to map out the background and human figures, ensuring accurate proportions. While acrylic paint dominated the piece, I had small touches of colored pencil, charcoal, and graphite to add depth and texture.

Needless to say, there are a few things that need to be fixed. Nearing the end, I noticed that the acrylic paint started to make my drawing look a lot like an abstract painting. Another small thing I noticed was that the area behind the mountains was a sunset but failed to recreate a realistic sunset which would be from blue to orange and finally end with red.