This is a drawing of my design for the TADA T-Shirt contest. I wanted a symbol that wasn't too much. I decided on this design because it represents what skills you will learn while in this academy and it's simple. I combined digital arts and painting/coloring by drawing a laptop with a paint bucket on the screen.

I used a blue color for the laptop's screen. I also used curved and straight lines for an open laptop. Rhythm was used on the laptop's keyboard. The keys are a square shape with rounded corners. There is contrast because of the white keys on the keyboard and the black colored laptop.

I chose to do the meaningful word on the dictionary page. I decided to use the word "butterfly" because I like butterflies. I wanted to do something that includes different types of the species due to the fact that many people usually only know of the Monarch butterfly. So I searched on the internet and picked 8 different butterflies; Viceroy, Monarch, Cloudless Sulfur, Common Ringlet, Sleepy Orange, Tiger Mimic Queen, Eastern Tailed-Blue, and Zebra Heliconian. I made a sketch, placing the butterflies in a random order. I also added a brown dog with a butterfly on its nose, which has half blue half green wings on the bottom left corner of the page. I wrote the word "butterfly" in cursive with a simple side view of a butterfly outline beside it to further emphasize "butterfly."

I chose to use an image of Jack Black because he is a popular actor and recently was the voice of Bowser in the new Mario Bros movie. I feel that the monochromatic color scheme came out best because the tints and shades of purple look nice next to each other. For the primary color scheme I used red, blue, and yellow. This scheme is my least favorite because I don't like how the hair blends in with the background. I used blue and purple, and green and red for complementary. For analogous I chose to use red, red orange, blue, and blue green.

There are mostly curved lines to show the facial features and wrinkles in the clothes. I used a variety of colors. I used tints and shades of purple for the clothes, skin, and hair for the monochromatic image. There is contrast where 2 images have a smooth shirt and the other 2 look more wrinkly. The arms and hands show movement. One hand goes upward and the other arm is moving toward the viewer.