PLEASE FULL VIEW!
Done purely in colored pencil.
Estimate of hours: 40-50??
Favorite part: The expression on her face.
Size: 18" X 24"

AH! Alas the peice I entered into the art show (Got second place... some really bad traditional peice won over this T_T)! My prized possesion. Most definitely my favorite peice of work I've ever done. So, you'll have to excuse the watermarks for my over-protective-ness. Well finally I have a new camera but the only part it didn't capture correctly is the texture in the skin. Just a bit too light.

THE MAKING: Detials, details... Well, It's all done completely in colored pencil (I love you prismacolor!). I worked on it obsessively at school (even ditched classes!) and at home for a little over a month. I was determined to get a peice that I was happy with in the show. Since there were none, I decided to make one. I used one reference photo for this, which is in my scraps right now. The photo is of myself for one of my senior pictures. I only used the photo to help me get the particular expression in her face I wanted. The rest of the design came from my imagination. This was the dress I was going to make for prom, in it's early planning stages. (If you want to see how the dress I made turned out go look at my desktop screenshot.)

SYMBOLISM!: As my friends may know all of my art has deliberate meaning behind it. I'll let you guys analyze it how you like! Please do! Then behind her in the background in the ring around there's writing. (Can you guys read it?) A quote from Confucious; "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

MY STYLE: I'm really attached to this style of particular dark thick matted color pencil. The other peice I had in the art show last year... that I'm not as proud of anymore and may eventually post up.. is like this same style of colored pencil. I get asked so many times what I used and I always got that look of disbelief when I told them colored pencil.

I want to hear all sorts of comments on this peice!