I feel like this blog is actually turning out to be more and more for my art rather than a blog about my life? But I guess that's not a bad idea. I'm just not into the whole "journal blog" idea because firstly, I am very lazy and I forget very easily, and secondly, I'm not the type of person to put out my life in public in detail as a blog post, not because I think there is anything wrong in that, but mostly because I can't be bothered to take much pictures when I go out and like just narrate about my life because seriously who will be interested to read about my life, I mean let's be real. And plus, I'm active on twitter and instagram anyway and that's enough for me. But of course, if anything drastic was to happen or something really special, I will write about it here. I don't like limiting myself to any theme or topic, but you can be sure it's going to be mostly art related stuff because I do enjoy documenting my art process and showing it on a public media to whoever is interested to see it and also it is quite fun and I get to see how I'm improving because I know I'm no where near a good artist yet.
I know I have a bad habit of rambling before starting with a post SO MOVING ON WITH LIFE...
My boyfriend got me the best birthday present I could've ever asked for, which is the 72 colours Prismacolour colour pencils. I would've never bought that on my own because it is so damn expensive and I genuinely feel I don't deserve such pencils yet, but he being one of the biggest supporter and encourager of my love for art, thought that I deserve the best pencils even if its just to practice drawing.
(I know he's reading this right now so this is for you "Thank you for being so damn sweet and encouraging even when I'm no where near a very good artist yet and encouraging me to keep trying even when I fail :*")
So I had to use these pencils and try out something. I was actually very scared to start using them because it feels very different to use colour pencils when I'm so used to using normal hb, 2b, 4b and 6b and 8b pencils for drawing in black and white. I mean it's easier to cover up your mistakes and make it look more realistic. With colour pencils, you have to be aware of soooo many range of colours and hints and tones in a certain picture and it's hard to pick them out and shade it properly. But I also understand that that will only come with more practice, I cannot expect to use colour pencils for the first time and get it perfect. So I guess for a first try, I'm quite satisfied with this piece but of course I personally can see a lot of mistakes and I know it's not realistic at all but I guess to achieve that I'll just have to try more and more.
I do would like to reiterate the fact that I do not post the process of my art stuff here to teach anything because I'm too under qualified for that, BUT it's more like a "backstage" view of my final drawings and what I do to get it the way I got it. It's also for me to see how much I'm improving and also hopefully help someone out in anyway through posting my own process, be it by using the same technique as me or just getting an inspiration from it or even correcting it. And it's also just fun to blog.
Alright so without further rambling, here is the drawing that I did and recently posted on my instagram
And here is the whole process:
And that was that. I know it's not perfect but it's not bad either right? I hope you liked it anyway :) And just btw, I got the original picture off google so I'm not taking credit for being imaginative or anything, but I needed a picture as a reference.
I shall be back with more, time to find some new pictures to work on
See ya :)
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