This piece is a expressive self portrait, I used pinks and whites to create my face and yellow, greens, and browns, to color my hair into a bun. I also used different shades of blue to create my shirt and a basic orange for the background. One skill I learned is to use the lightest colors first and shade out from those so that I don't smudge the wrong colors together. Like for example, underneath my lips, there's a bit of a blue streak because I was creating my shirt at the same time as I was doing the really dark shading on my chin and got some blue from my fingers onto the pink. The principle most emphasized is shading of color especially throughout my hair and face. The use of shading in this piece is very important and defines my face and shows where the light is in the photo I drew off of. The skills used in this work creating something interesting because the colors can be close to someone's actual skin tone but at the same time it's not because it's different shades of pink for my face and a lot of colors of yellows, oranges, and greens in my hair.