Okay, here goes... *deep breath*

Well, this is another piece I did for my summer art class. It was the first assignment, in fact; the point was to familiarize ourselves with the compositional properties of "line," blah blah blah. We had to make a collage first, then transfer it in ink. Believe it or not, all the hard work and numerous hours I put into this piece only earned me a "B" grade for the assignment...keep in mind this was a FOUNDATION class, meaning there were no prerequisites, no requirements for having prior experience; it was a basic, starting-from-scratch class. I busted my ass on this sucker...the stipling alone took at least 4 hours to complete (the finished piece is about 11x14 inches). The teacher said it was too "busy" and that I should have removed a few compositional elements--I disagree. I don't know about y'all, but when I hear the word "collage," I don't immediately think, "one or two boring pictures pasted together that hardly fill a corner of the picture frame." What I think is more along the lines of "Big EXPLOSION that keeps the eye moving and the viewer interested." In MY opinion, anyway. But no, I'm not bitter. Not at all. *cough, cough*

ANYWAY, I got the pictures I used for the collage from all over the internet, and a couple of them from Deviantart...except I can't for the life of me remember which pictures came from where, so if you happen to see a picture of yours or a picture you recognize as someone else's, please tell me and I'll give proper credit!!! What else...oh yes, for those KH2 fans out there, that IS Namine's face in the left-center-ish area.

Done with black india ink w/various nib sizes on white bristol.