Colored pencils... It's been a while.

It's been quite a while since I did anything with colored pencil. I feel like I sorta shot myself in the foot with this sketch. I didn't let the tone of the paper work for me, and I inadvertently mixed my darks and lights making my midtones muddy.

Not terrible for a sketch, but not great. I'll have to do some more of these.

So my little sister wants a tattoo

She sent me an picture of a tattoo that she's into. It was kinda badly drawn, but the idea was very sentimental  I decided to redraw it for her.

It's probably something that is only meaningful to us as family, but I had a lot of fun putting it together for her. Basically each element represents an aspect of our close family. The elephant is our late grandmother Irene. The daisies are a representation of our mother Marji, the fish and hook are our grandpa Jim and the design on the elephant is supposed to represent me, though to be frank; it really represents her, because it's something she is into now. The fact that she let me redraw it stands for me in itself. I think it's sweet.