I had a few ideas when I was in class when approaching this piece. I wanted to work with lots of darkness and a splash of color. This is how I decided I wanted to create a girl in bright colors handing something colorful to someone who seems not to happy.

I sketched out a few ideas of this idea before looking online at references I can go off of.

After being set on what I wanted to do, I decided on using charcoal and pastel. I had never used pastels and charcoal sticks which was my true challenge. I didn’t like the outcome of my piece however, I now have more understanding on how these mediums work. The pastels were like crayons and it was hard mixing the charcoal and pastels together without making everything look muddy.

Here is the finished piece. In the future, I hope to come back to this piece and redo it.