Aria

I took Aria's original picture and turned it B & W. I figured that though the colors were great, the picture as a whole may turn out way too orange, and it would've probably made her look sickly.

 

I started by lightly tracing the generals, then slowly added detail into it.

 

 Halfway through drawing, I realized her eyes were too beautiful to be in black and white, so....I decided to have only color in her eyes, and have the rest be black and white.

And here was the original finished drawing. I then went back later and filled the background completely black, to make her hair look more like the blonde hair in the picture. With the white in the background it would be easy to say that she had light brown or dark blonde hair. So yeah. 

Valerie

Here's one of my friend Val. The picture she gave me had alot of contrast edited in, so I got the original, unedited version from her, and drew in all the details. I then jazzed it up with bright colors; I changed the design of her shirt, boosted her hair color, and darkened her eyes from her natural bright blue to more of a hazel to make it look more edited and un-real. The medium used was colored pencil.

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   Sketching in the basics:

My Final Drawing:

Drawings in Graphite

Here's the 2nd one I drew of Chelsea. I was on a serious graphite pencil kick for a few weeks last month. Regular pencil is really fun if you want to work on shading and the quality of the picture, because you don't have to worry about getting the coloring right. I didn't do a great job with resemblance, but I was mostly focusing on the shading of the hair and in the nose.

Original Picture:

My drawing:

 

Here's one I did for her sister, Alethea.

Original Picture:

My Drawing:

Chelsea

Here's a drawing of my friend Chelsea. I drew this one in colored pencil.
Original:

 

My Drawing:

Marilyn Monroe

Morgan gave me a bunch of pictures that she wanted me to draw for her new apartment, and I started this one at 10:30 two nights ago...and finished at 2:40 in the morning =) It's my new favorite drawing so far. To make it look more like an actual painting, I drew half of the picture with oil pastels, and the other half with colored pencils. I blended the pencils with the pastel in the hair as well. 

Here's the original picture:

I picture-documented this drawing alot, just for fun.

I began with very pastel-type colors, very light and easy to shade on. I used a mauve colored pencil for the outlining of everything in this picture, then I blended pink into the cheeks, eyes, and shading of the nose.

 

I then filled in all the details in the face and for the background i used all oil pastel, i blended magenta with sepia brown and threw some burnt orange pastel in there as well.

Here it is zoomed in.

AND the finished project!

Johnnie!

She's really fun to draw =) I did this one from her senior picture as a graduation present to her. It was done in colored pencil. I decided not to draw in the small branches.

This is the second one of Johnnie I just finished last week. The original picture was taken by my friend Scott; it didn't turn out exactly as I had hoped, but I like it way more than her senior picture I drew-the colors are more fun and I did better detailing on her eyes. Obviously I didn't do the same background, either. I left it white to put more focus on the colors in her eyes, hair, and in the soda can. This was done in colored pencil as well.

Since this is a zoomed up shot, I really wanted to get the eyes down...So, I started with a light layer of all the colors needed...lightly filled in a peach color around the eyes, and first drew the eyes with a tan pencil. Then I slowly went darker and added the darker shading & eyelashes with a dark brown. Just a little to the left of the pupil, I left room for the white of the glare.  I began filling in more bright red and orange strands of hair.
After alot of filling in & shading, this is her eye completely done!

Bethany

This was one of my favorite pictures EVER to draw! I finished it tonight =) Bethany is such a natural beauty! I drew this one in colored pencil. 

Here's the original picture:

And here's my drawing:

This one was a long process for me. I began with just placing her face, hair, and eyes, in the right spot on the paper. Then I began to fill in more details. After that was done, I drew a light layer of color over the entire paper:

After that, I filled in the final details and blended all the colors I had added to her face. And, voila! All done =)

Watercolor

For those who don't know, watercolor drawings are done with special watercolor pencils. They must be used on Watercolor paper, or when you blend with water after you are done, your picture will be ruined because the paper will have gotten ruined.
This is my first attempt at watercolor. I wanted to focus on the hair, mostly... the rest didn't turn out so hot. I ended up titling this one "Psycho", cuz...it fit. =) I have no detail whatsoever in the face and messed up alot on her nose and her left side. But I liked the way the hair turned out!

This was my second attempt. This was a picture I had randomly half-drawn a year or so back, so I just decided that since a piece of paper had already been used up, might as well try to make it look better. Again, another somewhat-failed attempt...And no, this is not me. Though I despise my 2nd attempt at detail in this one, I love the colours. I made the background a purplish-blue to complement the yellow in her shirt (yellow and purple are complementary colors), and I made the hair red and eyes blue to take the complete focus off of the yellow. Since red and green are complementary colors, I also threw some green in the eyes, and in the lines of her face. It's very subtle and hard to see in a picture, though.

The girl in Detail. (closer up)

Here is my third attempt. I've given up on portraits in Watercolour for the time being. Till I learn more about watercolour, I think it's good to stop stressing myself out! Here I tried a simple Still-Life of a Bamboo plant. It isn't the best, but I felt some improvement!

And here is the last Watercolor I've done. I finished this one about a month ago. I must say, I love it! Apples are really fun to draw because of the colors. I had talked to my art teacher about watercolour and finally applied it to this drawing. She told me to draw basics, blend with water, draw some more, blend some more...and to keep going till it's satisfactory. So that's what I did for this one.

Here's the red apple on the left in closer detail-

So that's all of my watercolor collection so far!

James Dean =)

Oh James Dean; I love that guy. I became addicted to his 3 movies this year, and addicted to his gorgeous face! =) I love drawing pictures from around the 50's, and wanted a change from female portraiture, so I actually had a few pictures of Elvis, Jimmy Stewart, Rudolph Valentino, and Gregory Peck lined up. But James Dean was the obvious choice. He's really fun to draw because he was in his early 20's at this time, but had such a unique facial structure that almost made him look older, but timeless as well. SO here it is! Done in colored pencil. I made his features a little too strong, and I accidentally made his hair more of a light auburn than dirty blonde. But overall, I am proud of it.

Oil Pastel

Oil Pastel still might be my favorite medium to draw with, probably because I drew with crayons all the time when I was little! It's a very easy medium to use when you need a lot of layers, but it can be very difficult with detailed drawings. 

Here are some of my oil pastel drawings:

Old Drawings 2

I took both of these pictures when we were on vacation in Washington at Christmastime. The one of my sister was taken at a park, and the bench was somewhere in Seattle. The bench was done in Oil Pastel, and the one of my sister was done in colored pencil.

Painting

Painting flowers on my wall =)