This was a painting I did in my free time over a weekend, so it certainly was not a masterpeice. However, I think it turned out polished enough to be considered a decent work. I got the idea from a Taylor Swift song (yes, I am an 18-year-old girl who loves her.) The lyrics are written as smoke coming from the burning town. If you read the lyrics I think the painting is self-explanatory. I will probably end up doing another painting of a song by her, but I'm debating whether or not I should write the lyricss on the painting or simply show what I feel about the song. This was the first painting I acutally like that used a splatter-effect without looking like pre-school artwork.

This was done in about two days and definatley is the worst portraiture I've ever done. I had never tried to draw a person with pastel so it was difficult but I tried. I'll admit I gave up once I got to the tongue (I had her tongue stuck out because I wanted the facial expression to be different than other portraits I have done.) I might try this again, but I prefer to use pastel for landscapes.

I drew a few self portraits but none of them looked anything like me. I'm going to do another one but here is an upclose of my mouth and nose area.

These are two different skull drawings I made of my clay skull. I did add teeth, only because my clay skull turned out a bit lip-heavy and his mouth area looked more like a face than a skull. I obviously messed up on the side drawing's chin.

Analyzing a skull model, I used sanguine to sketch 3 different angles. I had a difficult time shading in the correct places and making the skull look 3D.