"What are you, some kind of artist or something?" - Post a Pic!

[Ensi]

I'm getting used to living in a new town and having a new job! Here's a drawing I did for my colleague. The colours turned out too cold, so I'm going to make another one. Happy mistakes are the best teachers...!

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[Sevasan]

Attempted to draw an eye.  (found a video on youtube to help. haha!)  best of 3 and i will be trying for more!

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BIB3WDygEt2/?taken-by=sevasan57

[Sevasan]

 

 

Would help if I actually included the picture.. haha!

 

 

[LadyGrey]

I haven't been here in a while but it's good to see some lovely art! Good work, NFers! I love using watercolors myself but they take a LOT of practice.

 

I recently entered my second art show, which is actually the 1st one I could attend, with a picture of my 10 year old chocolate lab that I drew for my husband for Father's Day.  Done with color pencils on pastel paper.

[Ensi]

Aah! Art! 8D

 

That eye looks great, Sevasan! Have you drawn humans a lot before? Which tutorial did you use?

 

1 hour ago, LadyGrey said:

I recently entered my second art show, which is actually the 1st one I could attend, with a picture of my 10 year old chocolate lab that I drew for my husband for Father's Day.  Done with color pencils on pastel paper.

 

Congrats for attending an art show! The painting is lovely, you've captured the likeness of a labrador very well  Is pastel paper good when working with colour pencils?

 

As it happens, I just finished a painting for an exhibition that's in a library. Will post it soon...

[Ensi]

It's from a story with a green horse. Done entirely with gouache ☺

 

[Jonesy]

Just found this thread and I LOVE it! In school I always had some form of art class and since graduating I've slacked on my art. I envy anyone who can create beautiful things with watercolors. I love seeing what you have all done.  

 

It's been a long time since I did any painting but this is the last thing I did and it was a xmas present in 2014 for my parents. 

 

 

 

 

 

[LadyGrey]

1 hour ago, Ensi said:

Congrats for attending an art show! The painting is lovely, you've captured the likeness of a labrador very well  Is pastel paper good when working with colour pencils?

 

As it happens, I just finished a painting for an exhibition that's in a library. Will post it soon...

 

Thanks  And my husband LOVED it.  Pastel paper with color pencils is great if you want texture in your drawing. It just so happens it was great for the short dog hair that I was trying to achieve. Honestly it was an experiment with the paper and I ended up  liking the results.  I used a tan colored pastel paper, which was my mid tone.

[Ensi]

57 minutes ago, Jonesy said:

Just found this thread and I LOVE it! In school I always had some form of art class and since graduating I've slacked on my art. I envy anyone who can create beautiful things with watercolors. I love seeing what you have all done.  

 

It's been a long time since I did any painting but this is the last thing I did and it was a xmas present in 2014 for my parents. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome! You can post anything you want here from sketches to ready paintings. We're really curious to see what you have!

I love the stardust in your painting...! The composition works, and I love the colours  What tools did you use?

 

9 minutes ago, LadyGrey said:

 

Thanks  And my husband LOVED it.  Pastel paper with color pencils is great if you want texture in your drawing. It just so happens it was great for the short dog hair that I was trying to achieve. Honestly it was an experiment with the paper and I ended up  liking the results.  I used a tan colored pastel paper, which was my mid tone.

 

Huh, sounds worth trying! And experimenting with something and ending up liking the results is the best feeling :'D

[Jonesy]

The stardust was the most difficult part for me! I didn't have the money to go out and buy super fine paint brushes so I used the backs of paint brushes, some of those wooden skewers that people use for kabobs, and a plastic palette knife. It didn't come out how I had hoped but it still looks neat. I used acrylic paint for this and it's on a sheet of Strathmore Canvas Paper. 

[LadyGrey]

1 hour ago, Ensi said:

Huh, sounds worth trying! And experimenting with something and ending up liking the results is the best feeling :'D

 

Yes it is because it NEVER happens with me LOL. Except that once. 

[Jonesy]

Question

 

Anyone experiment with different sprays to help reduce or eliminate finished charcoal and pencil drawings from smudging?  Or have one you can recommend? 

[Sevasan]

5 hours ago, Ensi said:

Aah! Art! 8D

 

That eye looks great, Sevasan! Have you drawn humans a lot before? Which tutorial did you use?

 

 

Thanks!  Actually I have tried to draw humans before, but not much went into it.  I want to get better so I did the typical thing of searching online and came across this channel that I though looked easy enough to do and was made in a very easy to understand video.

 

Link to the channel I used

 

She has some good / easy to understand stuff. (if anyone else wants to take a look)

 

 

                         Also to add:   EVERYONE has some good stuff on here!!!!!!!!!       

[LadyGrey]

15 hours ago, Jonesy said:

Anyone experiment with different sprays to help reduce or eliminate finished charcoal and pencil drawings from smudging?  Or have one you can recommend? 

 

I've used this just recently on my chocolate lab color pencil and i liked it. I want to try it on charcoal and chalk pastel. And it's workable, so you can make corrections. I picked it up at hobby lobby with a 40% off coupon, so for me it was only like $4 or $5 bucks.

My art teacher always used cheap hairspray. I asked her if any of her art had turned yellow or what not from it and she said not yet in her lifetime. I don't like the idea of hairspray and it never really worked for me. 

 

I also recently used Mod Podge Matte Finish on a charcoal/chalk pastel and it seemed to work well as a final spray.

[Jonesy]

I couldn't remember the name, thank you! My art teacher used that and I had heard about hairpsray but didn't really trust it. I also didn't want to use the hairspray on the baked paper I put the charcoal on. I made this for my living room and wondered what I could use on it. Doing a living room makeover and going with a beauty and the beast theme (blue and yellow accents) and yes I'm obsessed with Disney.

 

[Sevasan]

31 minutes ago, Jonesy said:

I couldn't remember the name, thank you! My art teacher used that and I had heard about hairpsray but didn't really trust it. I also didn't want to use the hairspray on the baked paper I put the charcoal on. I made this for my living room and wondered what I could use on it. Doing a living room makeover and going with a beauty and the beast theme (blue and yellow accents) and yes I'm obsessed with Disney.

 

 

 

 

My wife and I love Disney too!   It took me a second to see what you did there in your picture! but that is awesome!!!    I tried to do a sketch of Elsa for my wife (might be posted earlier in this forum if I recall.   I would love to see more of your Disney art. definitely keep them coming!

[Owlet]

Self-indulgent horse study  graphite and smudges lol

[Fatty McButterpants]

Okay, does adult coloring count? (Yes, it's a thing.) Because that's one of my favorite ways EVER to relax. I have two of Johanna Basford's books (Lost Ocean and Secret Garden, along with The Time Garden by Daria Song. These are two works in progress from Secret Garden (the owl is for a challenge called "Blue Birds," wherein, obviously, the entire bird has to be in shades of blue).

[LadyGrey]

On 7/24/2016 at 0:25 AM, Owlet said:

Self-indulgent horse study  graphite and smudges lol

 

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!

[Owlet]

11 hours ago, LadyGrey said:

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!

Thanks! It was so fun to do! I think more horses are needed...

[ThisMissisup2nogood]

Awww yeah, an art post. You guys are good! 

I've chosen the creative life. I sculpt, paint, sketch, draw, and design creatures mostly.

My latest project were three soft sculpture poseable dragon hatchlings. I had to learn to sew to get them assembled but it was fun. Here's one of them.

[Jonesy]

Jack Davis was great!

His monsters scare the crap out of me. 

[LadyGrey]

On 7/26/2016 at 7:35 PM, Owlet said:

Thanks! It was so fun to do! I think more horses are needed...

I wanted to do a horse study but my art teacher said they were overdone >:(  It's hard to take her advice sometimes. But I will do one on my own and share it with you guys in stead.

 

But for now, here is some Eevee instead. I used some shitty paper with the copic, but just they are simply just some studies.

 

[Ensi]

36 minutes ago, LadyGrey said:

I wanted to do a horse study but my art teacher said they were overdone >:(  It's hard to take her advice sometimes. But I will do one on my own and share it with you guys in stead.

 

 

What. What? Huh. My brain can't process the part with "horse studies" and "overdone". How the heck do you link those two together? Just... what.

 

LET'S DRAW MORE HORSES!!

 

The Eevees are super cute! Are you playing Pokémon Go, by any chance?

[Ensi]

On 27.7.2016 at 6:37 AM, ThisMissisup2nogood said:

Awww yeah, an art post. You guys are good! 

I've chosen the creative life. I sculpt, paint, sketch, draw, and design creatures mostly.

My latest project were three soft sculpture poseable dragon hatchlings. I had to learn to sew to get them assembled but it was fun. Here's one of them.

 

This is so cute! I love the shape of the head