Art

I just finished up my most recent art class, so I have several new drawings (and a painting!) to show. This class helped me learn the value of drawing from life, rather than from pictures. Drawing from life gave my finished images much more depth and helped me to more clearly see value differences and proportions. My goal as an artist at the moment is to develop the technical skills necessary to make realistic art so that I can later move on to make art that has meaning. I think this class that I took has helped me tremendously in this effort.

For copyright purposes, I'm just going to show drawings that have a distinct signature on them, but there are many more that I have not posted.

Without further ado, here are my latest additions!

Freesia. Graphite. Drawn from life.

It Takes Two. Graphite. Drawn from life.

Figurine of a Chinese Woman. Graphite. Drawn from life.

More Art!

It's not a Saturday, I know, but I figured that a post is so overdue that I wouldn't wait until a convenient Saturday rolled around. I also don't have a question or an essay for you today, but rather, I have some art to share with you. Enjoy!

This is one that I based off of a watercolor I saw on Pinterest. Instead of using watercolors, though, I opted for my new gray Faber-Castell pens.

This one is also based off of a Pinterest find. I've been testing out my Koi watercolors with paintings like this. Here I was primarily working on mixing colors and showing distance by fading out the colors of the flowers in the background.

Here I started to paint my new betta, Edmond, but I ended up tweaking the colors somewhat. Once more, this was me experimenting with my Koi watercolors.

This was a swan I saw in San Francisco recently. I made this with my gray Faber-Castell pens.

This came entirely from my head. I made it with my gray Faber-Castell pens.

Again, entirely from my own head, but based off of what Edmond looks like. I made this with my gray Faber-Castell pens.

This was the first watercolor painting I made with my Koi watercolors. I based this off of a tutorial for painting lupines that I found on Pinterest.