For my spirit animal project I chose to draw a crab. I used a variety of colors in oil pastels, and completed the project with a jelly roll pen to draw the sand. This was when I had toned the background with coffee and colored the crab.
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Below is my still life photo shoot. I took a lot of pictures for it, and after remodeling it many MANY times, I finally took this one.
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Below is my base painting for my still life project. I messed up and accidentally used my water color paints instead of my acrylic. I think the painting would’ve been easier if I used the right paint in the beginning, but oh well. It was fine.
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For the oil pastel project I practiced my facial features and color usage with this eye. I tried out the scratching technique, but I didn’t really like it that much, so I only used it for hair strands in my actual project.
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I started my project with a base of water color in warm colors. I sketched out my best friends picture using a grid. At this point I had done the hair and sweater using oranges and brown oil pastels.
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TThis was one of my images for the photo soot at the begeniing of he year.
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Practice skull.
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Still need to draw two other skulls. I named it THe Missing Head of Captain John. I know that's super weird, it was my first time naming a piece. But burning the edges was really hard. I about burned down the whole house when I burnt the two in the middle. Oops
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