Project for my Drawing class.
I had to choose five symbols to incorporate into a self portrait. They had to be representative of your origin, past, present, future, and then one "free choice" symbol.
My origin was the Union Jack on my necklace, because my family heritage is English, my past is the bird in the upper left corner because I'm from a small, peaceful town (like a dove? sappy, yeah), my present was the cloud of smoke coming from the train (since my present is "cloudy", again, yeah, lame), the mountains were for my future, as I hope to attend college in the mountains, and my free choice symbol was the train because I love traveling.

There are plenty of things wrong with this that I should have gone back and fixed after I got it back from the display case, but I didn't, as I am too lazy. For instance, I literally finished the entire left side of the drawing fifteen minutes before this project was due. I wanted to go back and make the bird and the train more detailed, but I had been working on this drawing for so long that I was pretty much burned out on it.
Oh, and I meant to shade the inside of my hood on the right side of my head, but it just ended up looking like I had drawn more hair and that my head was disproportionate. Ugh. I need to fix that. I might eventually.

Yeah, not the best.
But, hey, it was a grade.

Oh, by the way, my scanner's on the fritz, so I had to take a picture of my drawing with my Canon. Just ignore that photo info on the right.