drawing – Lua Eva Blue

Attempting a “Self-Portrait”

My Drawing teacher told us this week to make a personal blog. I’ve been using one I made in portuguese more, but I can’t forget about this one. The following video was an art assignment we were given: to draw a realistic portrait of ourselves, cutting the head, and adding whatever elements we liked. My teacher told me I was great with contrasts.

My friend who wanted to show up in the video is just a bonus :p

Right now, I’ve got to worry with 2 exams next summer: Descriptive geometry, and History and culture of the arts. I really like Art’s history, but geometry, not so much. We’re revising Greek art (taught last year) and we’re going to start with the Baroque (I believe?) next week.

Whisperer

Whispering to a flower. This was a quick drawing I did to help me getting out of this art block I’ve been feeling. I haven’t had drawing ideas. Until this. A bird shadow above a mouth shaped leaf, pointing to a small flower. “Whispering”.

Initially, it was a normal A4 paper, but then I cropped it due to composition reasons. I also used a few soluble graphite.

Most used art supplies:

Faber castell graphite pencils and TK fine 0.7

Canson bristol paper

Drawing inspiration – bugs

I’ve always liked bugs. I don’t know much about them but I find them to be interesting for their “design”, specially now that I am starting to add “living creatures” to my drawings.

For example, Tera:

(normal & water soluble graphite on canson bristol paper)

She is the creature that takes care of the earth on my drawings’ world.

Her body was based on ants, her wings on damselflies, and her tail on spiders, so nothing specific…yet!

I am already sketching other weird bugs to use them as an inspiration. Just google eucharitid wasps. They are like wasps with antlers! Kind of. And very scary too.

Here is a sneak peek on my next drawing made with water soluble graphite:

It’s still a work in progress, but I can say these wings were based on butterflie’s eyespot.

Abstract pencil drawing – Dandelions

After 12 hours and 16 minutes, I finished this A4 sized drawing called Dandelions.

First, I shaped then, and then I starting adding the shades. The bigger dandelion is pointing at the sky, while another one’s shapes are already separating because of the wind. That one was supposed to belong to the stalk on the right of the small dandelion. There’s one on the left who’s looking for the smaller. On the background, you can see the night sky, the shadow of a tree, and shapes resembling a cloud.

Speed drawing:

Talking about my drawings – Hidden flower.

Hello everyone, Milyusia here, and today we are going to talk about my drawing called hidden flower.

Art supplies: Graphite pencils on canson bristol paper. Time: 11 hours. Size: A4 (29,7 x 21 cm)

This has to be one of my favorite works ever (I made it a few months ago)! This scene happens on night time. You can see the moon on the middle left side. Still on the left, there is a fully bloomed flower. On the right side, there is a flower yet to bloom. That, is the hidden flower (title of the drawing). On the middle, there is a shadow on the clouds. That shadow, is the right flower, once it blooms. Everything but the moon, clouds and the flowers is dark. On the left down corner, you can see my signature.

Speed drawing:

Also one of my best youtube videos, this is one of the very few cases where I can still make something good, without the pressure of a camera. When I’m recording a drawing, I feel like I have to be drawing all the time, and to be paying attention to the camera all the time.

While I was drawing, I was listening to documentaries about Picasso and Van Gogh, to keep my ears entertained while my hands were almost hurt and sweating, because at one time, I drew for almost 5 hours non stop. I don’t do this anymore. If you want my advice, make a break every 1 hour, even if it is just 3 minutes to walk around. Thanks for reading. Good drawings!

Dono

Materials: Artgraf soluble graphite and black carbon

This is Dono, the owner of the fire on Mia (The new name I gave to the world). He lives on the top of the mountains and spends most of the time sleeping. When it’s sunny on winter, he wakes up and distributes warm where it is needed. During summer, he rests on its nest, on the top of the biggest mountain.

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