I draw people

Art only side blog

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Human female artist who doesn't take commissions and makes art so she doesn't @#$! people.

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Lyra polycolor in a Moleskine art book. I have a small set pieced together from loose stock to try them out.

Lyra is another brand with several lines, the Giants, which I have the skin tones, are aimed at children and people who have an easier time with a pencil with a larger barrel. They are a good all around brand, medium to hard, and the polys feet more dry than the slightly waxier Giants. The color selection is slightly different from what you might be used to.

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Bruynzeel design pencils in a Moleskine art book.

This is one of those brands with several lines, the Design being of higher quality. I only have about a dozen pieced together from loose stock to try them out. They are medium soft and have a diffetent than average color selection.

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Damn that’s a good hat. Black Widow pencils in a Moleskine art book. I only have the two skin tone sets. I wish some of the colors in them weren’t so similar.

These are a decent general use pencil for art and coloring, you can get some good art out of them but you’ll know when you’ve out grown them.

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Derwent Coloursoft in a Meskiene art book.

These are what Prismacolor Premiere might be with quality control. They are soft and opaque

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Polychromos pencils in a Moleskine art sketchbook

Discovered that a quality white eraser will work on them. Only disappointment is the black is not dark enough irl on this paper type

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Happy accident between the projector and the cover of one of the Molskines. Not out of the question for a cover but after the pages have been filled.

Okay, I have a pair of A5 Moleskines, regular art and watercolor, and and idea I've had for them, and I decided that doing a sort of practice run proof of concept with a pair of B5 size would be a good idea, especially to make sure some of the speciality pencils and paints I have will cooperate with the paper.

I'm using a projector to do the initial sketches, project and trace all you want (if copying someone else's art you say it's after ___ and it is a way to learn but don't sell copies) the finished work will reflect your skills as an artist.

I project to be able to concentrate on the coloring, painting, whatever, and tho I feel pretty confident with doing things free hand I survived a traumatic brain injury. I have moderate visual snow and related neurological issues. No matter what I do some things, especially eye glasses or placement of multiple subjects, just don't work some times. So if I project it I can make sure something as simple as the lenses on glasses are the same size.

And when I project I sort of do a quick and dirty sketch with a hard pencil, and I still feel like I fucked up the glasses. But this gives me enough to be able to sit down later with a reverence picture and refine, still with a hard pencil making light easy to erase marks, and prepare to treat this as a sort of DIY coloring book.

So I'll be going along with a pair of Moleskines doing the idea of a DIY coloring book and to show off my skills. I've always wanted to have a sort of show off book, used to have a form of one when I was younger, but perhaps I was getting in my own way about it.

I'm seeing this isn't exactly what I want to do with the bigger set so it's already a good idea. This is also going to get that idea out of my system so I can use some of the fancier or speciality paper sketchbooks for something else.

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Been awhile since I’ve really put pencil to paper, been doing other creative stuff, so I feel rusty. This really is something where the more you do it the more you improve.

Not going to tag who it’s supposed to be, it’s close but not quite to my liking, but if you guess then good for you.

Done with a 2h pencil for the sake of it

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The crumbs are because this was done on mixed media paper instead of watercolor so it wasn't the best of choices for a particularly wet piece. But this is a "sketch" to try out the image and tones. I would have liked to go back over it when dry and erase a few places to make highlights.

Done with a water soluble pencil and crayon.

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Bryunzeel Design, their higher end, perfectly nice pencils but with a lack of certain tones I would like.

I pieced together my own set out of loose pencils which tho costly upfront just works better so I don’t have to deal with like half a set I’ll never use.

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Derwent Studio which is only as dry as one’s skills

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You still have a choice in effigists so choose one with competency

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Only had time to swatch these but I’m excited. I’ve had a 24 set for years. These are smmoth and buttery with a bit if clay in the mix that gives a slick sheen when thick and heavily layered.

The added colors really make this a great portrait or skin tone set. It has great earth tones, look to their other lines for florals and brighter greens.

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Proof of arting and trying every pencil set I have. The fanciest most expensive set has the least colors I need and has earned its self a trip to the sell if I can pile

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Done with Spectrum Noir colorblend from Crafter's Companion, not sure if they're still in business or not. What ever the label says the pencils are made in China and might be a sort of white label where it's the same product with different company names on it.

They're medium to soft but not buttery and do a decent all around job. This is one of those brands where if we were friends and you needed pencils I'd just give them to you.

There's nothing wrong with them, I only have one set of 24, the essentials (portrait) one, and it is lacking in yellow browns a less pinky red for my needs so it's a sort of sunk cost thing where I'm in no need to get more. I also have a full set of their water color pencils that I'm not using because it's kind of too big and too many similar colors that I don't need but I am using their tinted graphite.

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Din’t try to out weird Pearl, he’ll only see it as a challenge

Blick studio pencils portrait set which are neither here nor there

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DIY your love for Perry, he was an artist himself