More Sketches!

Here are some more practices....These are over the past 2 weeks...or so. I hope anyone who wants to look enjoys these! :3


Sketched with a normal pencil then colored with soft pastel. After Ink is added (a sharpie ultra fine point). The horses I drew from memory the birds and cats I followed tutorials.

Random doodling with oil pastels.

 The apple and pear I think are both soft pastel and colored pencils. Other stuff is a sharpie pen.

Messing with baby oil and oil pastels with colored pencils.

This is more like a painting than a sketch but I was practicing so I guess it counts.
I followed a tutorial in a book for drawing the Cosmo, the rose is just how I draw a rose...My watercolor pencil skills almost ruined this, I just took over it with Raphael watercolors instead and went with it. - Watercolor, white pen, pencil for sketching, kneadable eraser.

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Tip of the Week: Add Fluidity

Adding Fluidity

Stiff -vs- "Fluid (Curved)

A drawing needs fluidity, balance, and some freedom. Even in hyper realism there is much fluidity.
If you are drawing a face or a body, you have contours of the muscles and fat of a body...

...Or if you draw an animal, the fur doesn't simply stick out, it flows and follows the shape of the animal.

Animal Fur (cat ear)

 Plants don't grow stiffly up in most cases, they have weight, bends and flows, they move and twist in the wind and though it might sound weird they actually do breath...I suppose what I'm trying to say it that living things aren't stiff, they move, they bend, and the show presence, if you want a good drawing you need to present that in some way.

See how the vine flows?

Same thing with textures like fabric, even sitting there it has depth when something moves past it it flows, when the wind touches it there is a light-weight feeling to it. Take this drawing for example:

One thing to avoid, though, when trying to make things interesting is to not make things seem “plastic”, if you have something at on angle, having a smaller similar object going at the same direction can make it unbalanced like you are trying too hard.




I hope this was helpful!

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[Traditional Art] Inking Process - Il Gatto Con I Fiori Di Primavera

[Traditional Art] Inking Process  - Il Gatto Con I Fiori Di Primavera

This is the inking process of a new drawing I hope to actually finish without getting bored half way through...This isn't a "tutorial" this is just a walk through of what I did.

The pens I used are my "Prismacolor Premier Assorted Markers", the sizes are as follows:

• 005
• 03
• 05

Okay Lets Begin!

The drawing is this one here.

1:

I started on the face of the cat using my 05 pen, first the "hair" and then the eye and the top half of the muzzle. - On the muzzled I tried my best to do a swift but careful line as to make it smooth and not ridged, I started from the first indication of the "bridge of the nose" down and around until half-way through the mouth, then started from the end of the mouth until the end of the first line.

2:

I inked the bottom of the mouth and face along with the rest of the hair that I wanted to keep, the ears and the nose. - To make the hair look smooth and sleek I tried to do swift lines.

3:
Next I went to the cloth that's around the cat's neck (I guess it's a scarf) and the lady bug on the cat's head. - Again, using swift smooth lines with the pen, trying to keep the pen flat down on the page not on a slant.

4:
I inked the butterflies wings and body but not his legs and feet.

Now I have switched to my 03 pen and added the pattern on the scarf and the little ladybug. - I didn't worry about how perfect the pattern looked as the flowers look kinda sketchy and simple anyway.

Bigger Version

5:

I've now moved  on to the butterfly and added the rest of his details (legs, feet simple pattern etc...), and inked the daffodil.

6:

Next I inked the iris that's tucked behind the cat's head, along with one of the small butterflies and the ladybug on the iris.

7:
Afterwards I inked the tulip and the lily that is intertwined within the leaves, and the other butterfly along with the little ladybug on the lily leaf.  - At this point the initial lines are down and I'm almost done.

8:

Lastly I added the final details to the fur, thickened outlines on the flowers and cat, alone with tuned up the eyes; For this I used my 005 alone with the 05 and 03. - An I'm done!

I hope this was helpful or at least interesting! 


 

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