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WIP coloring page from a new Penny Dell book! New technique: watercolor and colored pencil. It's pretty awesome.
New place, new creative space! It's got lots of shelves above and a drawer below to stash stuff in. Lots of room to grow!
My Art Journal 2017. My friend from college had a beautiful and very awesome art journal, I was so inspired by her journal, that I made my own. I started this Journal in October 2015. It took me long while but now is done and I’am proud. My favorite Artist Candido Bido was a huge influence in some of this pages as well as some pinterest post that I like and made my own version of them. If you like any of this pages let me know. Let start a art conversation.
I love how this journal looks! I love how it has the same style throughout.
Thank you!
I've noticed a lot of likes and reblogs on my posts the past 24 hours, and I just wanted to thank everyone! You are awesome!
Started a tiny 'use it up' art journal. Two days later, and it's almost full! Also, paint pens are awesome.
Second finished page in the art journal. I found some awesome origami paper (background), and the rest I already had. Donut vision is best vision.
Don’t force pieces that don’t fit
Here is 10 things I tell my students on the first day of class about building yourself up into being a artist. This is starting point, not a all encompassing list. Hope you find it helpful!
1. Never stop experimenting. When you stop trying new things your style will get stagnant. Developing your style never has an stopping point, you’re going to continue learning and changing–that is a good thing.
2. Don’t draw to please a particular person or audience. It is tempting to draw something you think the person viewing it will like. It starts with drawing to please a friend/family member, then a teacher, and then a wider audience online or in person. However, consider drawing to please yourself first, an audience will follow in time and you will face a lot less burn out down the line. You’ll be hired for this, work you made out of something you liked crafting–not something you forced yourself to craft. Don’t make art that makes you miserable.
3. Learn the basics. Get good at anatomy (human and animal), perspective, creating depth, lighting, etc–then break the rules you’ve learned. Work, no matter how abstract, pushed, and pulled is always stronger when informed by a mastery of the basics.
4. Practice working in ways that do not hurt your hand. Learn to draw with a relaxed hand and draw in long strokes. Both of these methods help prevent issues with your hand, wrist, and arm. I’ve never gotten carpal tunnel, and I draw on a daily basis, because I have learned how to treat my hand well. Your hand is your tool, if you wear it out there isn’t a new one you can just pick up. The best treatment for any possible physical issues is prevention.
5. Learn how to draw without erasing. It is scary and it is tough no doubt! However the best way to become more confident is through not erasing. There is a medium for everyone to try this out, whether it is pen or non-erasing colored pencils. If you want to ease yourself into this method try out Pentel red lead, it erases a bit–but overall will always leave a mark with every stroke you make. The importance of this is learning to not be afraid of mistakes.
6. Draw from life, from reference photos, and from imagination. This trio is important, combining all three is usually how you build great drawing skills. Drawing from life gives you the ability to capture small details that you’ll remember to put in when drawing from a reference photo, drawing from refs will give you the practice you’ll need to handle whatever subject so that one day you can draw it from your own imagination–see how that works?
7. You’re art isn’t completely unique and that is okay. I can’t emphasis how many people I know who have gotten so hung up on being something totally unique that they burn out fast and never make work again. Now, considering how much art is in the world there is no way that what you create will be 100% unique to you. That is fine, your personality in your work is more of what makes something yours than a “style”.
8. Figure out your work’s personality. On that note finding the personality of your art is important as you go into trying to build your own place in the art world. The personality of a piece is a combination of style, subject, color, shapes, lines, and maybe most important themes (yes subject and themes are different). This combo is what makes your art special. At a loss for where to start figuring out your own personality? Compile a list of 10 artists you love. Why do you love them? Is it the shapes of one artist that speak to you, the line work of another is beautiful, the themes of a third make you feel inspired? Now take the 10 things you love about those 10 artists and start applying them to your own work. This isn’t about copying these artists, it is about the inspiration. That line work you love in another artist’s piece is gunna look different in yours for example. Those themes from another artist, well when you take them on your life might inform them in a opposite way. In time your inspired work will evolve into something that is your own.
9. Talent is nice, persistence is more important. Someone may be naturally talented in some areas of art, however someone who is persistent in their craft is so much more likely to succeed. Effort, continued growth, and practice will add up to so much more in the long run than just skating by on “talent”.
10. Be a good person. Treat others with respect, learn about social issues, don’t be a creep, and use your art to help people. And this might mean you craft a piece about an important issue that changes thousands of lives, or you might just be creating to help yourself get through the day. Both are important, after all you are a person too and you should always be trying to help and be kind to yourself.
This is very useful! :)
can we all pause for just a moment to appreciate this incredible/hysterical/enormous MS paint pin that my mom sent me as a belated birthday gift
this is what i did today instead of inktober.
now i am… organized.
Some pages from my art journal so far. I only consider the first one finished, I've got more ideas for the others. Someone gave me an old Lucky Peach magazine (which is now not running anymore, sadly--i would have subscribed to them for their images alone!), And all the cut out images here are from that one issue. The sugar rush image is the only exception. It is SO nice having somewhere to just plop down an idea when I think of it, and then leave it there for working on /evolving later!
Another coloring page done. Went with grays and blues this time, and it was a lot of fun. I'll probably put this in my art journal as is, but we shall see.
Got some acrylic paint today! I went over this canvas cover again and saved the parts I liked. It's much more sinister looking, like it's all going to be dark and grim inside, lol. Not quite!
So I decided to get on the art journal train and I bought the Jane Davenport blank canvas journal (the big one). I've already pasted my recent coloring pages and drawings in there, and I plan to do some collage stuff as well. This is the cover (I already gave it a title), done with markers and the older set of paint-over pens. I think I'll probably attack it with acrylic paint when I get some eventually, but for now, here is the beginning of my first art journal.
Happiness comes from within.
Another random marker experiment. I call it, 'Romance in sweaters'.
I’ve been watching a lot of Jane Davenport videos lately on YouTube, and all the sudden I’m drawing a people. So here’s a people.