Materials

For this this drawing, I used two 12” by 11” inch pieces of drawing paper. For the background, I used charcoal colored pencils. For the girl and the earth, I used regular colored pencils. I also used an exact-o knife, and yes glue to cut the girl and the earth out and glue it onto the background.

 

Process

I sketched the girl and the earth, then I erased  the sketch marks so they wouldn’t show through the colored pencil. I colored the girls hair using yellow-gold, the her body and face using yellows and oranges. I used a gold color for her eyes, and pink for the blush in her cheeks. Then I colored the earth with yellow and green.’c keeping the areas closer to the girl less saturated because she is the light source. I then colored the background on a separate sheet of paper using layers and different shades of blue charcoal pencils. I added white and yellow dots for stars, and bigger diamond shaped stars with charcoal pencils. Then I cut out the girl and the earth using and exact-o knife, and glued her on the blue background paper.

 

Ideas

The ideas for this piece work with my new inquiry idea of what stars mean to people. The girl is supposed to represent the sun, and the energy that keeps all of us alive. She is supposed to look like shes holding the earth to her in a sort of motherly embrace, showing that the sun gave energy for the earth and life to grow.

 

Citation

My current artist is William Joyce. His children  book “The Sandman” does a really good job of using yellows and blues in a dream like way. I like the flowing look that he illustrates in the sand, and wanted to use that in my piece for the girls hair. My master artist is Kay Neilson. I like the way he used long brush strokes in his art, and the interesting shapes he used in his characters and backgrounds. I was inspired to use some of these techniques in my piece for the girls hair. I used long strokes and swirls to make the hair more interesting, and to add movement.