Experimenting again with my fantastic "Fantasia" colored pencils was another wonderful experience. Over the past few weeks I have struggled to perfect my skills in reflections, but I feel the final outcome turned out better than I thought. I cropped the original contest image to an enlarged status because I really wanted to extentuate the detail. I learned a whole lot of new skills through this project. Many of them dealing with reflected colors from nearby objects (seen in some of the golden bow). This really gives that effect of realism to a piece with shiny surfaces. I am definitely excited to do another piece of art with these colored pencils because I find them much easier to create the colors I like rather than Prisma-colors. I am also looking forward to see who the winner is of this contest, there are so many great pieces that my fellow classmates made that blew my mind.
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Finally, one of my favorite and most skilled mediums, pencil. This project's base was to use a drawing medium and I felt that using pencil would be my best option. Although my eye for detail is very decisive, it is also time-consuming. The subject matter had to be mechanical and I chose to turn a dog into a bunch of car parts that fit in an appropriate manner. I have had a lot of experience with pencils because it is the base medium for almost all traditional style art pieces. I've also had trained experience in "Drawing" class as well. I know how to make different shades blend with one pencil, but it is nice to have a variety of pencils too. I used HB for most of this piece, and 2B, 4B for the darker areas. I love working in pencil because the margin for error is little due to it's erasable properties. I also use a kneaded eraser to touch up some of the hard edges and create distinctive reflections of light on many of the metal objects. I can't wait to finish this project and see how this turned out. I took a different approach on mechanical ideals this time because most of the machines I saw online were robot based and not just hunks of metal clunked together. ----continue when finished----
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