Portrait of a Friend

For this project, I wasn't sure if I should make a cartoon-ish portrait or a real portrait.  I was starting to run out of time by the end of class so I thought, the easiest thing to do would be to draw a quick portrait of my friend in a cartoon way like they do at the fair!

My technique was so just draw whatever comes to mind and never erase it.  I thought it was a good way so show how my brain is thinking instead of what I am thinking myself.  I'm so used to drawing something that I thought of for a long time so I just decided to draw whatever comes to mind first.

Frieda Anderson

Frieda Anderson is an artist from Corinth, MS.  Her work is machine quilted and nature inspired. Every day she walks in her woods near her home with her dog George.  She gets her ideas from walking there. She discovered hand dyeing fabric 20 years ago, and she now works almost exclusively with her own hand dyed cotton and silks that are used in her quilts. She has been teaching since 2000 and made her first quilt in high school.  She doesn't have a certain style, but she does almost always make quilts with nature on them.  Frieda has over 30 exhibits, but she does sell her quilts on her website and gives tips on her blog.  I picked her because she just seemed simple and sweet.  Her work is really colorful and unique.

New York City Skyline Silhouette

I was born in New York so I took the "Where I'm From" category and just took where I actually came from and drew the first thing that came to my mind.  That's how I came up with the idea
The only thing I took from a source was a picture of the silhouette and I made it so that it was my own version of the skyline.  I also folded the skyline in half so that it was in a perspective instead of being just flat.
I should have taken the tops of the buildings and the outline of the doors and windows and just highlighted it with white chalk.  Even though I didn't do that, that's probably what I learned.
I've always had a hard time with trying to make sunsets with chalk, but this time I just went with it and I got better at making the sunsets.  They're still not what I want them to be, but for right now it's good enough.