starfish

My first project of the year was actually for a woman who works at my school. All I used for this piece was a few drawing pencils and a creme-y yellowish colored pencil. I found this piece to be a little hard to create because there was a lot of pressure to make it work right. I knew that I was going to give this piece to someone, so I really needed to put a lot of effort in it and try to make it look great. I think the most difficult part of the starfish drawing was the texture of it. The reference that I found was very elaborately detailed and it looked as though you could reach into the picture and pick up the starfish. It was flipped over, so that the tentacle part of the animal was showing. There was also the challenge of the entire piece being basically the same color. I found it difficult to make the starfish stand out, because shadows have never been super easy for me. I used a star method to get the background and the texture of the starfish to look correct. When I was finished and I went to the office to give the piece to the woman, I was really nervous that she wasn't going to like it, that she was going to just pretend to like it because she liked me. Much to my relief, she genuinely liked the piece and is planning on hanging it up in her office. -KEP