This piece of artwork was done as an art project for my Grade 10 class. This is the preliminary part of the project - the Tonal Study.

The project was fairly simple and only required a few steps. First, we had to find a piece of artwork or a photo that we liked (I chose MegaMan, naturally). Then, to show that we understood the form of the subject, we were to draft a tonal study in pencil with full shading. Once that was done, we'd create the "final" piece using stippling/pointillism.

Even though this was preliminary work, I actually found that it turned out better than the final piece. The shading may be amateur and/or imprecise at times, but the piece still looks fairly clean and professional as far as I'm concerned.

Overall, this was probably one of my better pieces of artwork from that time period, and luckily it still looks pretty good even by my current standards.