Concentration: Serpent in Shackles/Old Theater Bird

 I drew this digitally with my tablet originally, but I printed out the sketch and traced it onto my marker paper in pen and then colored it with a combination of marker-pen and colored pencils for the final image. There's a lot of things I don't like about this image, but one thing I do like is the contrast of the silvery blue and the brown. I learned from this piece that drawing chains is a pain in the butt.

• This was very simple to draw. After a sketching session with pencil, I just drew over it in pen and then shaded it with my marker-pens. I tossed and turned over the background, but in the end I am very pleased with my decision.

I am working from home now because of medical issues that caused me to have to be taken out of school, which was making my condition immensely worse. So I have to apologize for the quality of these pictures and the rest of my portfolio to come.

Concentration: Roaring to go

Everyone knows that cheetahs run fast. That's all I really have to say about my specific choice of subject for this piece, other than I think cheetahs are pretty. My concentration is going to be(I think) anthropomorphic animals. I like drawing them, what else is there to say? I was asked if I was anthropomorphizing animals for my concentration, and while technically that's exactly what I just said I'm doing, I like to think I'm finding the animal in human, not the human in animal. Anyway, this is colored pencil and pen. I have a digital version of this too that I like a lot better, but I think our concentrations are only supposed to be traditional media(so we can work on them in class and all), so I had better learn how to do pencil, crayon, brush, or marker.
I referenced this piece heavily. Here are my sources: woman and cheetah