Project 1: Squid-Mer

  This project was the first picture I ever made on photoshop. It was quite a challenge to figure out how to work everything, but I eventually got the hang of it. The assignment was to morph two different animals together. Once I received this assignment, I immediately thought of a project I did last year. I drew and painted a Mermaid with a squids head. It was a tough task, but it turned out being one of my favorite projects. This inspired me to create a more life like image of what I once created on paper. It was not easy, but I liked the way it turned out. It was especially hard to blend the colors and match the who pictures together so it looked real. It was a fun project that taught me how to use photoshop. Aside from the small details and their imperfections, I think this is pretty good fro my first time on photoshop.

Project 7: Dry Paint Heart

This project was one of the hardest project I've done. I used globs of paint for this project. I let the globs dry and then broke them appart and glued them to my drawing of a heart. After the dry paint was all glued on, I painted over the colors to make them more vibrant and colorful. I added purples and greens to make the red pop. This project was very sucesssful, and it worked as a great gift.

Project 6: Skeleton Tentacles

This project is one of my favorites. It also goes along with the skeleton theme. It took a long time to do, and I'm very proud of it. I shaded the bones with pen, which is something I haven't done before. it was hard to do, but I liked the way it turned out. I'm really obsessed with skeletons and tentacles for some reason, so I thought it would be cool to mix the together. I think it turned out really good.

Project 5: Sunflower Bones.

This project went along with he theme of skeletons. It was actually harder to do than it looks. I had to draw the flower first, then add all the bones to if afterwords. I used colored pencils to add more to it. I thought about leaving it black and white, but a lot of my projects had been lacking color. I really liekd the way this turned out, and I want to do more projects like it.

Project 4: Face and a Bow Tie

Well, this project was originally a sunflower painting, and I was basically all done with it, but someone got clay all over it, so I had to re paint it all. While I was repainting it, I just didn't feel like making the sunflower all over again. Even though I really liked it the first time I did it, I just wanted to do something new. I don't really know why I decided to paint this. I just thought it looked unique and it wasn't the typical painting of a face you would see. I like bow ties, so I decided incorporate that into it. It was fairly easy to paint, but making the small lines of precise was hard. I guess if I were to do this again, I would add more detail and make colors pop more, but I like how it turned out overall.

Project 3: Inked Octopus

   I wanted to do an octopus painting because of my last project, but I didn't have this in mind at first. One day in art I had painted a piece of paper this blue green color, and then I accidentally splattered  black paint on it.  The splatter mark actually reminded me of an octopus tentacle, so I went with it. After I painted to head and added more tentacles, I splattered gold paint to add more color. This project was kind of easy, but it took a lot of guts. While splattering the paint, I never knew if the paint was going to fall the way I wanted it to. Luckily, it did. Over all I'm happy with this project.

Project 2; Skeleton Mermaid-Octopus

I chose to do this project not only because it went with my skeleton theme, but because I love mermaids! One might forget that is is a mermaid because of the octopus head, but it is. I think the octopus head makes it unique. I originally didn't plan on having the octopus head, but as I started drawing it just came to me. I painted the background first. It was originally just a tan color, but I decided to add texture with different colors to make it look like sand. The skeleton tail was the hardest thing to paint. I had to make really little and straight paint strokes. Once I decided not to paint a face on the octopus, I thought adding glitter would make it pop. I'm really happy with the way this project turned out. It is one of my favorites.