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To continue, it took me about 2 hours to finished half of my sweets still life drawing as you you can see from my first post above. I did great job in finding some details and observation on the characters but it needs to improve a little bit to make it more realistic and natural look as some sweets scattered around the floor and make it more visually three dimension look. Other than that, in my second post is the final product of my scattered sweets still life drawing and it took me about 10 hours straight to finished the final drawing. I feel happy with the outcome because I know that I am not very good in doing drawing especially colored pencils drawing and still life. Practice makes perfect and keep training your hands to the new mediums and expose yourself to try new things because there is no limit in making arts.

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So for this next posts, I started to teach you on how to draw still life drawing using pencil and colorized it with color pencil. I know it is not easy for you to make a transition from only learned how to find value only from grading pencil. But you learned the basic of drawing in my previous posts which were line drawing and some elements of art such as learning how to familiarize yourself with these elements which are lines, shapes, colors, forms, and shapes in drawing. We almost cover all of these elements of art. Now it is time to challenge yourself to try more advanced drawing which is to start with still life drawing.

I know that my photo I took is a little advanced for you but you have to challenge yourself in some way and try a bit harder. You can take photo that is easy for you for example a pen, a bottle or a cup especially if you a beginner in still life drawing. In my case I did still life drawing with some scattered sweets. I also will include some elements of art that we have tried and studied before such as the used of cool colors such as green and purple from the packaging of the sweets and also warm colors such as yellow, orange and pink colors.

To start with, I took a photo of some sweets scattered around the floor. I also used HB pencil to sketched out and drafted out the shapes and lines that I can see from these sweets and finally created forms of my still life objects. I also used grids for my composition alignment and shape precision on my paper. Then, after finished with my sketch and rough drawing, I colorized the sweets with the colors I wanted and put out some details such as the wordings on the packaging and the characters on the packaging. I used colored pencils from Staedtler Luna because it has the quality and the roughness from its colored pencil leads that show the quality transition from light and dark even though you don’t press the colored pencil too hard on your paper.

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Here is a video tutorial of how to find good color combination on color wheel and how to create one of your personal color wheel. This video is very useful for you even though if you do not want to do your own color wheel but it also help you understand how the color wheel works and for you to understand to find exactly the colors you wanted in your work. This video also helps me a lot in terms of experimenting colors by my own but still following the steps that she teach me and how to combine the color together. She also teach me on how to do my own color palette by using color theory combination and by mixing them. She also cover different issues such as how to tell the color is warm and how to tell the color is cool colors. She also teaches about the transition of the coolest to warmest and from warmest to the coolest.

What I like about this video above, is how she explains more towards the transition of one cool color for example blue where she explains more how different people sees different blue even though it is the same blue. That is because of the temperature and light of the color and different eye of different people to see that blue. She also impressed me on how she mentioned the colors using watercolor and explained it from the darker to lighter she mixed using her brushes.

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From the photos above, I did experimentation on how to understand and differentiate the color theory such warm and cool colors. So from the two first and second photo were my experimentation photos of my abstract drawings using rectangular shapes. I did that is to make me understand which colors are the cool and the warm color. It is to compare and to make us understand the different and the use of cool and warm colors exactly and to know the specific meanings when we gonna use the colors in our artworks and designs. Each and every colors from cool and warm colors contains specific meanings that we have to know to visually please our eyes when we see our artworks and designs. Attractiveness of the colors playing psychologically with our audience minds.

The third photo above is a photo from a website called decoartblog.com where they explains more in color theory and how to use colors in our designs and artworks such as the primary, secondary, tertiary, complementary and analogous color. From their website, they also teaching us on how to use colors and mix and match the color that we gonna use in our works. Moreover, this site also helpful for artists to understand colors because picking the right color also can be challenging and tough to make it attractive and meaningful. Color theory also help us to find the darkness and lightness of color value. We also can find harmony in color wheel using complementary color experimentation. I did my experimentation from the color wheel and do it as an abstract drawing instead. I also find it easy to arrange my color arrangement using the color wheel instead of just randomly picking colors that I want for my artwork and it is also good to the precision of color arrangement. Other than that, understanding color wheel is also give us know the interaction between one color with other colors. The combination of colors in color wheel also give us the easiness to pick the color we wanted.

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Another post for my blog where I did another abstract drawing, but this time I did it with warm colors for my abstract drawing and it is still in rectangular straight shape. Why I did this is to make you compare and easy to differentiate the warms and cool colors I did from both two abstract drawings which is from the first one the cool colors abstract drawing and this warm colors abstract drawing. From this abstract drawing I chose warm colors including red, pink, yellow and orange colors. This time, I did my abstract drawing of rectangular shapes more accurate and precisely done to each other. Warm colors is bring the emotions of passion and excitement when we look at it so why not I try my abstract drawing with warm colors too as my experimentation in my color theory. Warm colors I chose is red represent the idea of sunlight and heat, passion and delight. It is also bring the coziness and playful idea when we use red in our art and design. Other than that, I chose orange and yellow to bring up the idea of light and temperature where if we see most of art created we can relate with the idea that the creator of the art show the idea of braveness and light in their work. I also experiment the warm color of pink where it is also represent the color idea of playfulness and girly color often related with women that brings the emotions of delicate feelings, feminine and sweet.

Understanding warm color is also important for the beginner artist that want to try different types of colors in their drawing and painting so they can contrast the idea of warm colors with the cool colors to balance out the emotions and feeling in their artworks specifically. It is also to enhance the viewers perspective towards your work and to attract them to know the story behind of your work even though it is just an abstract drawing or simple abstract painting. Warm colors also makes the viewers feel certain type of emotions such the feel of excitement and hunger for example when we see the logo of McDonald. It is important for artists and designers to understand the use of warm colors because it is also can be striking and unusual because of the color look and feel such as red can be angry and blood symbolism. Yellow can be light and sun. It can bring positive and negative perspective towards the viewers. It also can attract people and make people excited and increases people heart rate. That is why every artists need to understand the power of colors and take it as an advantage to explore and understand their audience’s minds and perspectives. Understanding colors for visual works is important because it is an important part for us to be able to mix and match to please the eyes together with the science of how people perceive the colors itself.

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For my second trial of contour blind line drawing, I try to draw not only facial drawing and self portraiture of myself but I also step up my drawing by adding two self portrait of my youngest brother and my sister in it with half of our shirt drawn. This photo taken when we were in a restaurant having dinner together and then my brother took a group photo of us since we were sitting near to each other and I was in the middle of the photo. So I tried to draw this photo to challenge myself not only using one facial self portrait of myself like the previous post but this time I’m gonna use 3 persons as a whole and try it with contour line drawing to spice up the challenge from the combination of 3 persons to show the imperfection of this art challenge to myself. I also excited to see the outcome of the drawing come along together and how the composition will look like and how the perspective and the final look at the end of the drawing. In order to start the drawing I need to stare for a while and have a close look at the photo my brother has taken to understand how the lines meet each other.

Apparently, the final product of my drawing is quiet satisfying for me even though the facial expression is not that good as I wanted and I will keep practice on this. In terms of the composition and the sequence of us siting next to each other in the photo matches the look and the composition in the drawing that I created which is not really showing the wide gap to each person in the drawing. The facial expression is to rough for me and too much lines crossing going on. The drawing of our facial expression also still need more improvement like I need to smooth it a little bit to show less lines that can possibly bring the roughness on the face especially the lines crossing too much on my sister face and on the nose of my brother face also can be smoothen a little bit.

Overall, I decided to practice this technique and skill in my drawing next time again and again to makes me really good at doing contour blind line drawing and the imperfection look at the end makes me think it is a good skill to practice especially for beginner for me in contour blind line drawing. What can I get from learning this technique is I learned a lot to be imperfect and trained my eyes, hand and my mind to be always knowing that we are supposed to not be afraid to make mistakes in drawing and to break free from the idea of always to be perfect in drawing. Other than that, contour blind drawing also makes me produce an imperfection art of drawing that I aiming for this blog theme. For my next post in this blog, I will try more mediums and techniques and other skills in drawing and painting but still maintaining the idea of imperfection in doing art.

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This is my first contour blind drawing trial, I used my selfie photo that I took from my phone and to begin, I simply took a simple selfie without expressing to much expression on my face because I just need to include all the features of my face sketch down to my paper. When I started to do the self portrait blind drawing of my face I feel really awkward to not looking at my drawing paper and the perfectionist of me always wanted to look at my drawing paper while I am drawing my face from my phone. I also not really comfortable to practice the drawing without lifting my hand  and always wanted to erase the look I have been creating because in my mind I know it will look messy and ugly but that’s the point of contour blind drawing and that is the way this drawing is all about, to feel uncomfortable and to make the drawing look messy and to make you feel imperfect. It is to practice you to make mistakes and error on your drawing in order to practice you from always wanted to draw in perfect look and never feel to make some mistakes in your drawing. This is the blog is all about to make sure I feel perfect in way of producing imperfect look of drawing and practice on it. The idea of imperfect makes me feel certain ways and relate the idea with all things in the world that all is imperfect but reality we change the idea of all is perfect to make us feel comfortable and secure.

From my first trial, I feel really confident of using the black pen as my medium to practice this drawing and I know the black pen will produce a great thick and bright black lines without for me to double the lines. As the final product of my drawing, I can see a some features of my face even though that is not the result that I wanted after I watched the drawing from YouTube channel “That Art Teacher” where she did it flawlessly done. And then again the imperfection art that I wanted for this blog is enough to show that I practice the contour blind drawing is great enough to include all of the feature of my face all in in it. I really like the composition of my face structure and where I drew my eyes correctly even the eye lens are correctly looking to the side same as in my selfie photo that I took. The nose, lips and my right ear correctly positioned but the shape is not that accurate to the shape of my facial features. Except my hair and my neck was not fully done and correctly positioned with my forehead because I’m too tired not to look at my drawing at that time. I considered myself is fair good for my first trial and I will do it again soon in my next post.

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This is one of my favorite video in YouTube from That Art Teacher channel. It is about art tutorial on Contour Drawing and she teaches me more about how to do contour drawing by using pen and marker. From the beginning, I feel weird and uncomfortable by using technique not to look at my paper and after several trial I feel easy and more relaxed to use my hand by not lifting my hand while drawing.