For this piece, I created a blind contour of my hand, my face, and my friend's face, then proceeded to turn it into two monkeys, one serious and one a bit silly. This project relates to my life because the piece began with a drawing of me and my hand. I also think it shows different sides of people, particularly me as a person. I used a few materials to create this project, first I used a fine-point sharpie, then a thicker sharpie, and finally colored pencils. While creating this piece, I tried to use many different colors all in one. particularly on the 'silly' monkey, I used a color palette I have never used before. I also have never made a piece of art with two independent subjects with a common factor connecting them as I did in this one. My project had many steps. To start, I looked at my hand as I drew it on my paper, making sure not to look at my paper and not to lift my pen. This turned out just short of atrocious, but either way, I continued. Next, I moved onto my face. I looked in a mirror and using the same technique as before attempted to draw myself. Again, it was beautiful. Then, finally, I used the same technique to attempt to draw my friend Dylan. After these three drawings, I had to think of some kind of way to turn the three overlapping drawings into one artwork. I decided to go with monkeys since the face I drew resembled monkeys more than humans. I began this process by starting to outline the major lines of the monkeys to be with a thicker sharpie. I tried to include as much detail as possible and added a few lines to help with the transformation. After I had all the lines drawn out for the two monkeys and the interconnecting hand, I could begin coloring. I began with the more serious-looking one, I wanted to use darker colors to match the kind of tough-guy feeling. I used as many browns as I could for the hair, and then made the face a brownish-gray. I then decided to include some red on the hand and nostril to indicate that he had just been in a fight or something and had a bloody nose. At this point, I was finished with the first monkey and could move on to the second. For this one, I wanted to give him a happy little kid kind of look, and to begin I made him picking his nose to fit. For the colors, I wanted to make him very vibrant and colorful. I basically chose a different color for each segment of his face. I did red and yellow for the hair, green for the nose, blue for the forehead, purple for the ears, and orange for his cheek area and jaw. I also did blue for the eyes, to again, give him a friendlier look than the previous one. I also made sure that beforehand, the hand (pun not intended) was a neutral brown, so that it didn't clash too hard with either side of the artwork. I think this worked well so that the silly monkey and the serious one both have a kind of natural commonality between them. After this coloring was done, I was finished. I really like how this piece came out. And, as I said before, am not the most creative person, but this one just came together beautifully. If I had to continue this project I'm not exactly sure what I would do. I like how it is, and I don't think there are many changes that could help how it looks. Maybe I could fill in the background with something, but that's all I can think of really.