I decided to use more of my Vellum paper to make a portrait. Having just recently done a sad boy, I decided to search the database I had subscribed to for a smiling young girl and chanced upon one that appealed to me.
Having dedicated too much time to the eyes in my last drawing and not enough on the rest of the face, I decided I would only do an outline of the eyes and complete them after doing the rest of the drawing. I think that it makes for a more harmonious overall face but I will let you be the judges of that.
And as always, mixing the visual, sometimes the spoken but always an audio of the moment, I give you a song which I liked associated to the drawing.
Pencil drawing of a smiling girl by me
I decided to add hair on the left side as there was too little and it was not symmetrical
In the same facebook group for beginners in pencil drawings and shared by the same member I saw a beautiful photograph of a young boy three days ago and I felt compelled to draw it. I did not have much time as I had been doing other things including writing and I also did not want to use coloured paper. I had seen somewhere a lady comment on the fact that she had used Vellum paper so I searched for it on Amazon and got it delivered to me yesterday. I was too busy though to do anything yesterday evening but I got time today after 5 pm to start drawing the boy. This was a particular challenge for me as I usually only draw female subjects and am not at ease drawing male subjects.
I started out with the silhouette as usual and then concentrated on the eyes. I think I got too focused on them and then a lot more focused on the right eye which unfortunately I drew bigger than the other. By the time I had got down to the rest of the face, I was starting to get impatient and after taking some time for the nose and mouth, I realized at the end that I had scarcely paid attention to the cheeks, chin and neck. As rash as ever when I start getting bored with something (a remnant of my hyperactive self), I decided to just abruptly end the drawing and just coloured the shirt with big strokes that I then blended. I think it also may be because of how the music made me feel at the end. I hope you like the pencil portrait all the same. I will also post this on the facebook group.
And as always, mixing the visual, sometimes the spoken but always an audio of the moment, I give you a song which I was listening to while drawing.
Pencil drawing of a boy by me
Beyond Borders - Dr L Subramaniam, George Duke, Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham & Bindu Subramanian
I had joined a facebook group for beginners in pencil drawings and chanced upon a photograph yesterday that I found intriguing. It was shared by a member of the group who had attempted to replicate it in a drawing and was successful to an extent. I realized that it was a difficult image as it lacked symmetry, and many features had a downward trend increasing the complexity of the drawing to be made.
I decided to draw it myself today to see whether I could replicate, to a point, the photograph. I started off with a coloured paper and regretted it as there were highlights that would have normally been done with a white pencil but this was not possible with the coloured paper. I still thought it would make sense to use the white pencil for the highlights and the effect is a strange mixture of realism and cartoon-like impressions where the white pencil markings were made. I hope you like it all the same. I will also post this on the facebook group.
And as always, mixing the visual, sometimes the spoken but always an audio of the moment, I give you a song which I was listening to while drawing.
Pencil drawing by me
The below is the photograph used as reference for the drawing
I was doing some menial witchcraft work using the white arts to help a friend and got interrupted a few times by the bell including once by Jehovah’s witnesses who were attempting to convert me or so I thought. I said I was not of Christian faith which is not entirely true, nor is it entirely false. I used to say I believed in humanity before but with the idiotic stance of most these days and the unrelenting quest for more horrors of some, my faith in humanity is dwindling and I struggle to believe.
I decided to start painting again to ease my mind of more complex matters and halfway through just mixing the paints, I realized that the colours were a bit dark. I carried on, however, before realizing that you should not paint when you are irritated or angry because that gets carried into what you are painting. I thought I should publish it all the same, even though it stood at stark odds with my previous paintings and drawings.
And as always, mixing the visual, sometimes the spoken but always an audio of the moment, I give you a song which seems quite suited to my painting.
I am back to drawing again with feltpen colouring of a musician which I finished yesterday but did not have time to post. I spoilt a bit the nose by leakage of darker colours into the earlier highlights but I still like it. I hope you will enjoy viewing it.
Here is a song which goes with the subject of my drawing.
Watercolour painting of an Indian woman 3 March 2025
Aquarelle of an Indian woman by me
After my watercolour of Sunday 23 February, I decided to paint a woman again. I felt like the blending was picking up again and it seemed to be slightly easier than for the elephant. I stayed more or less within the same colour range as for the elephant and just let the brush strokes take over. I hope you like it.
I am leaving you with a beautiful poem by Gerald Griffin for which the song was created using suno.com .
"Nocturne" - Gerald Griffin (song created using suno.com)
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