Sustained Investigation #1

For this project which is my Sustained Investigation number 1 my inuiry was "How can I make my usual characters but display them in different poses. I did this using a picture of myslef posing for the picture of my grade during this years pep rally. I used that as a reference for the pose and I did all sorts of crazy clothes on my character and made him a different race and hair color than me.

I decided to step out of my comfort zone material wise for this project and I used oil pastels. It was really dificult to do my normal shading so I kind of made everything a solid color and I didn't use too much shading exept the hair which I thought turned out really good. The pastels kind of ruined the outlines which was kind of annoying because I couldn't really go around the lines.

The process that went on when I was making this piece started with a rough sketch and then a 4b pencil to make the lines prominent so I could copy it onto the big paper. I had trouble actually copying the sketch onto the big paper because of the dimensions of the head and body. I didn't copy it down too well because the character in too far down towards the bottom of the page. But then I used sharpie to outline all of the outside of the charcter. I then started with the head and colored the whole character with the pastel.