Illustrations

          We had to find references for figure drawings so I found a collection of this model posing in various ways. We only had a limited time frame so I couldn’t finish it entirely but I’m content enough with it.

          The one and only Tom Cruise. As always, when I made the decision to draw him, I sought a photo to capture the essence of his personality or public image; I chose this one because it features the classic edgy Tom Cruise stare. I’m not one for action movies but

          In class we had to choose 3 characters to do studies of so for one of them I chose the Genie:) Such a joy this character is!

          Giant Panda bears in red pencil, (not red pandas since those are entirely different animals:) ). I tend to draw a lot of cats and dogs so I am branching out to other species and I started out with giant pandas! These were so fun to work on, a mixture

            Panda bears in traditional graphite pencil. Here are some of the reference images!    

          In case you haven’t noticed, I tend to draw a lot of dogs and cats haha; I am challenging myself to expand my horizons on species of animals that I sketch and I decided to draw some panda bears for a change.

          Figure drawing of a woman sitting. She did a lot of poses so I drew a few of them.

            I did a few drawings of Great Dane puppies. They are so darn cute!

            This was my idea for the same prompt we were given for the Draco project, in which we had to craft a story depicting the mental health benefits for children gained from owning a pet. I had a young boy picking out a rabbit from the pet store, who