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Final Portait: Tyler Joseph | 05.30.18 |

I wanted for my final portrait to look dramatic but also simplistic. I wanted the red to pop out against the black. I wanted it to look simile but also make sure that it looks realistic or 3D. As I was sketching the portrait on the sheet I noticed how much faster I was able to sketch it out. When I sketched out my first portraits, it took me a could of days but this took way less. I was so proud to see that I was able to come this far when making art. Seeing how much I’ve grown was so exciting. 

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Practice Portrait: Tyler Joseph | 05.25.18 | 05.27.18 |

I wanted to do something different with ideas for my last final portrait. But I wanted to try out a few sketches. At first I thought I would cover the whole background black, but then I thought it could circle around him but then I thought It would be better to leave the background white. I wanted it to be in black and red and for the to pop out more I thought white would be the best fit

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Hair Practice: Dan Avidan | 05.14.18 |

I wanted to practice drawing curly hair. I have drawn some but not like this. I wanted this portrait to be in color so I wanted to practice certain ways to draw curly hair. I played around a lot with the brown color pencils. I wanted to practice until I was satisfied with the way I did it. It may not look like actual curly hair but I wanted this portrait to be in my style, I wanted to do it in my own way.

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Practice Portrait: My Mother | 05.07.18 |

For one of my final portraits I wanted to draw my mother. But I also wanted to make it look beautiful with flowers because she loved how I did the flowers in this portrait (x). This sketch was a lot faster to do then my previous ones. I remember the first practice I did with my mother was alight but I remember not liking the was I did the hair. But this time I like it a lot better. Her face was more narrow than it should be but this was a practice and on my final Ill make it the shape that it should be.

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Practice Portrait: Dan Avidan | 05.04.18 |

I saw this picture (x) of Dan and thought It would be perfect to do as my one of my final portraits. As shown, I added shading to the face, before in my sketches I would barely add anything. I wanted to add a lot of detail. I also wasn’t too sure about the hair. I have never draw that type of hair before so I was going to practice with that a lot. I also wanted to try something new, since his jumpsuit was sparkly and sequenced, I wanted to add textured paper instead of me drawing it. I felt as though that was going to pop more. 

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Final Portrait: Beautiful Death | 04.27.18 |

This portrait was inspired from all the art Frida Kahlo has done. She inspired me to input symbolic images into the art that I make and to also input life experiences. I remember when I first drew this (x) and I new immediately I wanted to draw it for my final. In this portrait I wanted to incorporate what I learned in drawing the anatomically correct facial structure, with a skull. I first drew the skull and for the face side I drew it over the skull, since I don’t normally draw on big sheets of paper and it made it a lot easier to place the facial features. I also have never worked with color so that was a challenge for me. But before I could color I wanted to practice till I felt as thought I was ready. When I was I began to color the skull and flowers. When I got to the face side I wanted it to be dramatic. At first I wanted it all black and white but I practiced with blue and it came out way better than I expected. The blue gave off more of a sad depressing feeling, which is what I initially was going for. I wanted the flowers to pop out so I made the background of that side black, with charcoal. But as I was doing that, charcoal got onto the skull. I was upset because I felt like I messed up, now the skull wasn’t as bright as I wanted it to be. But I left it alone, Its good to make mistakes because I can learn from them. After I was finished with that I splattered red paint to give that bursting effect to the flowers. 

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Commission | 03.19.18 |

This commission was a lot of work for me. I don’t have much experience with digital art so it was very challenging. I don’t typically draw in color. So trying to figure out which colors to use to make it look right was also a struggle. I’m also very used to drawing from a reference photo, it directs me to where I need to put things, they are very helpful. But in this I had to made one up completely, which I am not used to doing. Shading was also difficult to work with since it’s way easier to shade and blend traditionally but digitally I had to figure out ways to do that. In the end I was proud of what I created, I applied what I learned previously, getting me into a good direction. I hope to get into digital art in the future and do what I can’t do traditionally. 

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Practice Portrait: Dan Avidan | 03.17.18 |

I wanted to practice drawing some curly hair. 

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Color Pencil Practice | 03.15.28 | 03.16.18 |

I wanted to give the face side of my portrait more of a sad depressing feeling by adding in some purple. But as I was doing that i realized that I wanted to stick with just the blue, I felt as though it fit the portrait better. 

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Practice Portraits: Dan Avidan | 02.14.18 |

For my third final portrait I wanted to do something with Dan Avidan, but I wanted to practice with his hair and some ideas I could do. Since my second portrait I want to incorporate more creativity in my next final portraits. 

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Redraws: Arin Hanson and Dan Avidan | 03.14.18 |

I remember back in the summer when I started drawing. I never really drew people and decided to try it out. And every time I drew I had fun and would always wanted to do more. Which is what sparked this project, how I want to improve in my skills. So i decided to redraw a few of the drawings I did back in the summer and see how much I have improved.

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Color Pencil Practice | 03.12.18 | 02.13.18 |

For my second final portrait I wanted to do the face side of the portrait to be one color. At first I wanted it to be in black and white. So I wanted to practice shading in the face with a black color pencil. But a day after that when I wanted to practice again I couldn’t find the black color pencil so then I decided to use a very dark blue. It turned out as an accident but I liked the way the blue one turned out more than the black. The blue one brings out more of that sad feeling, which is what I want to go for. 

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Nose Practice | 03.09.18 | 

Noses can get difficult when the face is turned a certain angle and it’s hard to get the shape of the nose correct so it fits the face. 

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Commission | 02.10.18 |

The second commission I was working on was another book cover. But this time with the mythical creatures that were requested with it along with a medieval village in the background 

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Head Positioning and Skull Practice | 02.22.18 |

While I was practicing with head positions I was having a hard time with certain positions and wanted to look up one ways to draw heads when they are facing in different angles. (x) I also wanted to anatomically draw the face correctly and help me with proportions. (x) Both videos were very helpful and I use both techniques in my portraits. The second video was extremely helpful because the person went at a very slow pace for me to get a better understanding on how to draw the face and its proportions. 

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Eye Practice | 02.21.18 |

Lashes are something that I tend to struggle with when it comes to drawing eyes and making sure that one eye looks somewhat symmetrical to the other eye. So I watched a video (x) to help me with that. It was very informative video that taught me good techniques to use that will help me in my portraits.

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Head Positions | 02.13.18 |

I wanted to practice some head positions since I had some trouble drawing some positions.