I chose this marker comp as my best because I believe it demonstrates my ablility to use the marks well. I think this marker comp is better than all of my others because I spent a lot of time on it. First off I had more time to spend on it because it was the only thing due for this class and my other classes didnt have as much going on then as they do now. I also think since it was one of the first things we had to turn in I wanted to spend a lot of time on it and make sure it looked really good. I had fun with the markers and making a unique stylistic flower. I first started this marker comp by tracing the picture onto the marker paper. I then used the lightest colors and started to color in the flower. I moved to darker colors to make the inner petals of the flower darker and look as if they had shadows from the outer parts of the flower. I had practiced this marker comp once with tracing paper and crayola markers before moving onto the final one. I wanted to make sure that I would be able to make it look like the photo, and I also wanted to try using markers before making the real comp. I think another reason why I like this marker comp so much is because this is one of my favorite pictures. It is a picture of an Orchid I took while at the bitanical garden in Washington D.C.