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If my devotion to Nintendo was ever in question... let the truth ring loud and clear. May the mountain peaks now echo the glorious peals of my geekdom. Drawing a cartoonish picture about playing GameCube with your friends is one thing... But when you choose your GC controller as the subject of multiple fine arts projects, that's just something else... Probably something worth making fun of. (Much like ending sentences with prepositions.)

Anyway, the assignment was to pick a relatively simple object and render it eight different times using a variety of media. Being the untrained knave that I am, I had never even SEEN some of them before, let alone actually tried to use them. So I basically had to learn a lot in the process.

Rather than show you all eight of them (some of which would embarass me) I thought I'd put up the best three. The one on the left is an oil rubout, where you paint over the whole thing, then use turpentine to pull some of the paint back out. I had the most fun painting this one, and it made me want to try oils again sometime. The one in the middle is pen and ink, done with the same "splatter" technique as my self portrait in the black-and-white gallery. The one on the right was done with my lovely new Prismacolor colored pencils on Strathmore recycled paper. (As opposed to the cold-press illustration board that the other two were done on.) Something that I like about these pieces is that my color experimentation (I was using a photograph of my purple GC controller as my reference) turned out well. It almost looks like I was reproducing the "spice" controller instead...

Overall, I was very pleased with how these pieces turned out. Really, I'm just fortunate to have had the opportunity to take the class from this professor. The man is without a doubt an art genius, and inspires me to work hard in attempt to make him proud.