Circle Project

These are images of brightly colored octopi, one is striped and the other has circles on it, the striped one is sad and the one with circles is smiling about something. This was made using graphite pencil, black sharpie, and watercolor. I decided to paint this because I wanted to try out doing something fun and kind of childish and thought that I could do that well using the image of a cartoon-like octopus, and I did the second as a pair with different colors, pattern, and portraying a different emotion. Well this piece was originally supposed to be single but as time went on and I saw how quickly I went through it I decided to make a second, I also changed the color scheme from what I was eventually thinking. I guess the story behind this is that it is the same but also different, and I had forgotten this until now but in third grade I wrote a story about an octopus but never got around to doing the illustrations, it would be cute to put the two of them together now. My artwork could have been stronger if I had been a little bit neater, parts of this looks very messy and I would have like it better more precise.