Nicola Lucy

Redbubble | Ko-fi An aspiring artist just doing her best. Please do not repost my artwork anywhere, only reblog or share the links to my posts. Thank you.

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Purdy

Created for my mother’s 50th birthday, this is a very special piece to me as it depicts one of our old cats, Purdy. She was the sweetest old soul, with a purr that could be heard across the room. 

You can find out more about this piece, including how to buy prints, at my official website.

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Piece information:

Supplies used: Procreate

Time taken: ~7 hours

Completion date: 4th April 2021

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Tranquil Koi

Me and my good friend Amina, @artbyostle on Instagram, decided to each make a piece of art based around the same theme. Since it’s both of ours birth sign, we went with the theme of “Pisces”. I chose to represent it with a pair of Koi.

I went for a bit of a looser, slightly less detailed, style. What do you guys think?

You can find out more about this piece and where to buy it on various products (including prints) via my official website.

Feel free to join in and draw this in your style, or create a piece to represent your own astrological sign!

Details:

Time taken: ~15 hours.

Date completed: 17th January 2021.

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Heart

I wanted to try to achieve a loose, more painterly look with this piece. It felt more freeing to do it in this style, rather than focusing on the specific details. My interest in anatomical art comes from my job where I assist in dissections of human organs.

You can find out more about this piece, including how to buy prints, at my official website.

You can also find me on: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Redbubble, Saatchi Art, and Ko-fi!

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Piece information:

Supplies used: Procreate on iPad

Time taken: 1 hour

Completion date: 3rd February 2021

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Violets

Violets have a very beautiful history for queer women. Sappho of Lesbos, of Ancient Greece, often referenced women adorned in many crowns of violets, and this created an association between the love between two women and violets that has lasted for centuries. Gifting violets became a subtle code for women to express their love for each other. As February is LGBTQ+ History Month in the UK, it felt like a good time to share this piece of history.

This is only my second ever time using alcohol based markers, and my first time ever doing a full piece with them. The piece is by no means perfect, but it’s an improvement over my first play with the markers, and for that I’m quite proud. I used coloured pencils to add extra texture.

You can find out more about this piece, including how to buy prints, at my official website.

You can also find me on: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Redbubble, Saatchi Art, and Ko-fi!

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Piece information:

Supplies used: Ohuhu “Honolulu” 48 alcohol brush markers set, Staedtler 36 “ergo soft” coloured pencils, on white card stock.

Time taken: ~1 hour.

Completion date: 31st January 2021

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Miniature Cactus

I was tempted not to upload this due to its simplicity compared to the realism I normally prefer, but I enjoyed this one and appreciated not putting the pressure on myself to create something too realistic.

Short, sweet, simple. I kind of like it.

You can find out more about this piece, including how to buy prints, at my official website.

You can also find me on: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Redbubble, Saatchi Art, and Ko-fi!

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Brain

Please do not repost anywhere, although feel free to share this post! You can buy this in a variety of forms from my Redbubble. My personal favourite product is the hardcover journal!

Neuroscience is actually my area of speciality and I’ve been wanting to go over my degree content to re-learn it all properly. Part of the reason I wanted to draw a brain is just so I could annotate it when I’m going over neuroanatomy. But aside from that, it’s a great subject to study creating form.

To any other artists: Did you study art or are you trained in different areas?

Programme used: Procreate.

Time taken: 10 hours.

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A Gift

A digital painting of warm-toned roses!

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HOME’s Manchester Open 2020: Early Closure

Due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, HOME has made the decision to close the Manchester Open exhibition early as of today (March 17th 2020).

Whilst I'm heartbroken at the exhibition ending before my family getting to see my piece in it, I respect the decision completely. Public health is the priority.

Thank you HOME for the opportunity, it was a beautiful exhibition.

Be safe everyone!

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For the first time, I have seen some of my own artwork in a public gallery.

At the age of 13, when I reluctantly gave up studying art to pursue my career in science, if you had told me that this would happen one day I would not have believed you.

HOME have done an amazing thing by allowing amateurs like myself to put ourselves out there and display our work. Creating and sharing art is always something that should be accessible to all, and I really think that competitions like HOME’s Manchester Open encourage that.

HOME were also kind enough to reach out to me and offer me the opportunity to give interviews about my art and the competition. I had the privilege of being interviewed by BBC One and the lovely Domino at Cotton On Manchester.

This whole experience has been surreal and I’ve been grateful for every minute. I'm not a trained artist in the slightest, but it's something that has always brought me joy.

The exhibition is running from Saturday 18th January 2020 to Sunday 29th March 2020, and it is free to enter! My piece is number 351.

Update: The exhibition had to end early, on the 17th March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I completely respect this decision, and I am so honoured that I was able to take part in the very first Manchester Open at HOME!

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Skull Pencil Drawing

During my lunch breaks at work, I’ve started doing drawing studies. This was one that I decided to put a couple of hours into and eventually it turned into an actual piece. It’s 6B pencil on medium surface cartridge paper. You can buy this artwork on various products here.

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Willow The Frenchie

This is the best realism illustration I've done so far, and I'm so proud of it! Even each strand of fur was individually drawn. You can buy this artwork on various products here.

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Minimalistic Mountains at Dawn

Whilst I work on my next realism piece, I thought I would try something out of my comfort zone and create something more minimal instead. I've loved the minimalistic aesthetic for a while, so I'd be really interested in doing more stuff like this. You can find it on a variety of products here.

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If on the off chance anyone is wondering why I only have one artwork up so far, it’s because I’m taking more time to do the fur well with this one!

I start by putting down the base colours, then I blur them together, and then I build up the fur by each strand, layering them on top of each other.

It’s a long process, but hopefully by the end this’ll all be worth it!

Programme used: FireAlpaca (free!)

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Belle The Frenchie

This is my first digital artwork that isn’t of a Nintendo character, and I’m quite happy with how it turned out! It’s of my sister’s french bulldog, Belle, who is literally one of my favourite living creatures that has ever existed. You can buy this artwork on various products here.

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