Week 5 A

 Today our finished projects are due. I have decided to go with the portrait of Hughes inside the trumpet. Instead of a trumpet though I am now using a saxophone because that instrument screams more jazz to me. After meeting with Nancy, I have a better idea on how to create caricature drawings. She linked me a YouTube channel that does tutorials on how to create them. I took advantage of that and watched most of the video to gather ideas and learn how to draw them. After reviewing the video, I realized that it isn't as hard as I thought it would be. I only sketched a couple due to the time frame, but I think I have a pretty good idea on how to draw them. I want to keep up with this style throughout the semester, so that will give me good practice. The part that I wish was done better was the background. I was rushed and I believe that it could have been executed better. What I did was incorporate what I had in my sketch, but replace the music notes with some of his poetry. I also picked the color green as the background as green was his favorite color. Like I said, the background looks too simple and I want to revisit this in the future to improve it. below are the sketches of the caricatures and the final product along with earlier iterations of my piece. 

    







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