First semester, Foundation: Figure Drawing final assignment.  If I may be forgiven for bragging, my teacher said it was one of the best he'd seen, so I'm pretty partial to this piece, even though it's a pain in the neck to store.

This assignment required us to draw two self-portraits; the assignment was called "Me and My Shadow," so most of the portraits that the class did were on the theme of 'Good Me vs. Bad Me'.  One fellow even went so far as to draw himself holding aloft his own severed head, drawing in the style of the great Renaissance painters.  It was really quite good.

You might notice that for the self-obsessed, lustful version of me (on the left), I made sure to wear my wife-beater.

Sorry about the distortion; the original piece is the largest work I've ever done, and it was difficult to find a place in the apartment that was both large enough and well-lit enough to get a decent picture of it.
Second semester, Foundation: Observation.  This was the second-to-last project, I think.  It was done on one of our two outings to the outside world, down by the banks of the Mississippi where the old mill buildings stand.  Now it's a museum (the building on the right side is a great glass tower built amidst the stone husk of a crumbling mill).

This one looks better from a distance; if you look at it closely, you'd see that it's not actually that great of a drawing.  The perspective is a bit screwy, and I got downright impressionistic with some of the charcoal details.  And yes, that paper is blue.
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