[Traditional Art] Some Practices!

I figured I'd post up some of my practices, maybe it'll help any of you in a mental block!

Lets Begin!

Pencil to sketch out the squares using a ruler, washable markers, colored pencils and crayola paints to play with different patterns and such! - 11X15 Watercolor paper (from Big Lots, so it's not expensive paper at all!)

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Crayola Watercolor tray-paint and white acrylic craft paint; I used a normal pencil to sketch before coloring and a ruler for the cube. - 11X15 Watercolor paper

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Pencil to sketch and Niji tubed watercolor paints. - 11X15 Watercolor paper:

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I had old pencils that are made for black and white drawing and drew a realism challenge!
Her hair is a bit flat, but other than that I'm pretty happy with it!

 Materials Used:

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• 6B Drawing Pencil - Darker tones
• Standard HB #No 2 Pencil (like what you use for home work!) - Mild Tones and Sketching
• 0.07 mm Hard Lead Mechanical Pencil - Fine lines
• Knead-able eraser, Add on eraser (what you put on the end of a pencil), a semi soft eraser. ( was aiming for different lighting with them)
• Paper blender (it's like a white stick but it's made out of a paper type thing and you use it for blending)
• White pen (but it didn't really end up all that visible. :S)

This here was a challenge I did for myself! Try and shade the same object in 3 different directions!
I sketched first and made arrows to show where I want to come from so I can keep my mind better focused! - The objects aren't perfectly similar but they're pretty close.

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Then I colored them!

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Pencils:

• 10 Prismacolors
• 8 Crayola
• HB #No 2 pencil - Sketching

Other:

• 3/0 paint brush
• White craft acrylic paint
• 12X18 Inch Sketch pad, slightly textured paper, 60lb
• Colored Blender Pencil

A more detailed look at how to do this type of challenge yourself can be found here.

 I hope this was enjoyable to look at, and maybe it helped you get ideas on how to get out of artist's block!

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~ Firefly

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