Friends of Wonderland

This was one of my first real attempts to fill the space and create a scene. I had fun designing costumes and portraying everyone's character. It was interesting to see it would all turn out with all the different types of media I used: sharpies, crayola markers, and colored pencils. I find I use this blend of media in a lot of my art work I've done over the course of high school and early college years.

Alice - Me
Queen of Hearts - Elle
Playing Card - Megan
Mad Hatter -Katie
March Hare -Gayle
Cheshire Cat - Lara
White Rabbit -Haley
Caterpillar - Shelley
Dormouse - Allison

Centarians

This one is pretty. Everyone got to pick what color they wanted to be. That was hard since I'm the only one who knows all the different colors of horse and the specific names, but we worked things out and everyone was happy. I just liked drawing horse-legs and making everyone unique. I must say it came out well on the coloring side, but the hair is another question

Gayle - chestnut with socks

Megan - black with socks

Shelley - white

Katie - dapple gray

Me - blonde chestnut with socks and a star birthmark

Lara - tri-colored

Elle - strawberry roan

Haley - dun (she just said "Like the horse in that "Spirit" movie")

Allison - bay

Rivals and Friends

This isn't the normal set of friends that I show every time. These 3 are friends and classmates that also did art, so in high school I considered them my "art friends." Its kind of funny--and a little sad--how many different friends I had and yet I paired them off into categories: church friends, art friends, everyday friends, etc. And then subcategories as well! Mostly it was because I had so many different kinds of people as my friends, that they didn't necessarily blend were I to put them all into the same room, so I kept them separate. Nonetheless, they were, are, and always will be my friends because I care for their well being and happiness.

Left to Right:
Christy
Me
Casey
Panda(ora)

Ps. I miss those shoes! They were so cute!

Mario World

This one was Gayle's idea, she really loved coming up with video game ideas (as you'll see later). I was just happy to be Toadstool (he's my favorite). I thought it came out really good, and am proud of the designs. However, I really want to redo the craftsmanship! I mean, come on 15-year-old self! Get presentable!

Haley - Mario
Lara - Luigi
Elle - Princess Peach
Me - Toadstool
Gayle - Wario
Katie - Bowser
Allison - Princess Daisy
Shelley - Yoshi

Igals

I remember being so excited when I did this one, and I was so proud when I finished. This picture pertains heavily to how we were when at the time, our little quirks. Doing Ipod silhouettes is so much fun. I want to do more!~

Yellow - Lara
Green - Elle
Blue - Shelley
Orange - Haley (doing her dance move "One another")
Red - Me (with hair in a clip, my usual hair style at the time)
Purple - Gayle (played her flute, made silver)
Brown - Allison
Magenta - Katie

Flower Sprites

Its Spring!!! Theme: FLOWERS!

...This was a time when I really started watching Project Runway seriously.... Lara is Example of A of that as I attempted to be more original. Yeah... never making a costume like that again...

Wahhh! I can do so much better than this. it bugs me. I mean, come on! Its crooked!!!

Shelley - Poppy
Elle - Lilies
Haley - Hibiscus
Lara - Daffodils
Allison - Sunflower
Gayle - Snap Dragon
Katie - Rose
Me - Blue Daisy

Barnyard Friends

From here I can't remember the order of most of my images. Friends kept getting added and removed, I used new techniques, I found myself working less on my friends and more on school projects. Just about the end of sophomore year and the beginning of junior year, that's when I finally felt like the confusing life of a teenager really began for me, and though I hated it, something good much have happened because I am still have half of these wonderful girls as my bestest friends ever!

I remember Allison wasn't so happy with this piece. She didn't much like the look of having her head sticking out of an animal costume.

Haley - cat
Elle - chick
Gayle - cow
Me - dog
Lara - horse
Allison - mouse
Shelley - sheep
Katie - pig