Q 1 Project

In my art work I drew a self portrait of myself. I love to work out so in the middle of the portrait I drew myself with a nice lean body. I am not colored in because people are not really sure what ethnicity I am,  so I left mine colorless. If you look into my eyes they are faded and this is because I’m blind in seeing my competition. If the odds are against me I don’t care because I have faith in my ability. I have waves for a hairstyle and they are deep and all over the place so that's how I drew them in the picture. I have myself thinking about a soccer ball, because soccer is my passion. In the top left corner above my head I drew a soccer net and the 18 yard box because I am a striker who scores the goals. In the low half on the right side next to me I drew UFC fight gloves. This is because I love to watch the UFC which is mixed martial arts and I also do  martial arts myself. Pretty much perpendicular on the left side I drew wrestling shoes because I love to wrestle and am good at it. Above the UFC gloves is a drawing of a spine and pelvis. I drew this because I want to be a chiropractor when I grow up. I love people's reactions when I give them an adjustment. In the background I have the U.S. flag fading away because I use to be a patriot and wanted to be a Navy SEAL. I loved this country but stopped and feel like the U.S has been falling apart since Trump became president. Racist are more open to come out and we are going to war with ourselves again after we have been doing good.

For this project I used pencils,color pencils, markers, shading pencils,and a thin pen. I started off thinking about what I love and what I want my drawing to mean. I used all these items before except for the shading that was new for me.  A certain technique is to have something to look at and go from there. A new technique is to  draw shapes when drawing things to make a finished product. I am most proud of the finished product of my work. It is exactly what I thought it would look like and I can say that's a first for me. Usually I imagine something and it's nothing like what I thought it would turn out to be. If I could change anything it would be more detail in the flag. I feel like I could have done better with that. In conclusion I did this is a good project in my opinion. I learned that art is not as hard as I thought. It is about being consistent and caring about what it looks like.