This work is by our past student who was preparing for specialized art high school admission!
Similar to college admission criteria, specialized art high schools often have a set of elements that they look for in applicants. While we are constantly amazed by how talented young artists could be, please keep in mind that specialized art schools don’t look for technical geniuses who can draw hyper-realistic drawings at young ages.
It is important to think about canons in art academia, as they pertain to basic concepts like perspective, color, value, composition, etc.
This drawing has a lot of colors high in saturation, mostly close to primary colors. Showing some layers of buildings with imagination, it seems almost like a scene from a kaiju movie. There is a good amount of color mixing, as well.
When working with color pencils, it is really important to think about the marks you make, as color pencils are very grainy and tend to be very texture heavy. Of course, this would depend on how you specifically apply them, but using this to your advantage as part of your composition and visual effect would be very important.
With imagery that is interesting and fun to look at, the drawing shows an imaginative narrative of the student’s own, along with basic compositional skills and some sense of spatial distinguishment using mainly colors. Try to experiment with the medium of your choice and your narrative, and how they can be juxtaposed with each other.