This is my final for this semester. It was to create 3 figurines out of random cutouts from magazines and then redraw them in colored pencil. And as you can see, I had to put Lady Gaga in there. 
This project was from this semester, it was "Self and the City" I decided to take on the temptation to do wrong and "sin" in the city and the prevalence of superficiality. I put in a mixture of two quotes by Kurt Cobain, which is "Our friends are nothing but known enemies but today we found our real friends they are in our head." 
This was my very first project from first semester, which was a still life project. It took my 3 months to finish and it is secretly my pride and joy. 
I don't have a picture of this fully rendered but this is a self portrait of my mom and I that I gave to her for Christmas. The assignment was to do a 3/4 self portrait with colored pencils but I decided to add another person. I'll put up a picture of it completed another day. 
This was my second semester mid-term which was to use text in a new and innovative way. So I took the idea that if you could shake someone's hand and tell them everything about yourself in that handshake what would you say or write? I of course put my name, my favorite quote by Kurt Cobain: "I'd rather be hated for who I am rather than loved for who I'm not." I also put my favorite Bob Marley quote: "In this bright future remember your past." And then I put music notes because I absolutely adore music and I put "Music frees your soul."
So this piece was my final project from first semester. We were supposed to reference three different artists and then make the piece our own. So the girl in the middle is me and each tattoo has a special meaning. The dragon represents my personality and how vivacious and passionate I am. The claw represents the things that bother me and that "hold on" to me. "Write Love" is in dedication to my favorite organization, "To Write Love on Her Arms," which is an organization that educates and combats the issues of suicide and self-mutilation. "Lie to Me" just represents how people can lie to you all the time and we won't even know it. The web with "Forget it" means how life is so intricate and everything intertwines with each other and how sometimes we just need to forget it all. "Christ Saved my Soul" literally should be taken as written. I dunno where I would be without my religion and faith. The figures around "me" are supposed to be the "bad parts of me" that I'm letting go of. This piece is by far my favorite piece to date and is my most personal.
