graphite – Lua Eva Blue

Abstract art and me

When I was on 8 or 9th grade there was this time a classmate got me really sad. Thankfully, I don’t remember the context anymore, but I was sad and it was raining and I love rain so I went under a tree, sat, and planned on drawing. I was nervous, so I started beating the paper. With a graphite stick. A water soluble one.

Contrary to what cartoons may make us think, trees don’t protect us so well from rain.

As I was doing that, some raindrops would hit the paper, and make an effect with the harsh graphite lines. I felt the paper leaf was crying with me. I was angry and it felt good. I still have that drawing. Thing. Sometimes I look at it and find it funny. It has nothing to do with anything I’ve ever done, but I kept it.

It’s weird. I express my emotions on my drawings. I’m not good with words. I’m not the kind of person to say art says what words can’t. I just have really poor vocabulary skills. And wouldn’t that be mean to writers? It’s more like when we can’t say the words, not that they don’t exist.

I still draw. Most artists draw since they are a child. At least the ones I know. I don’t know the whole statistic thing.

But of all the things I’ve made, I feel more connected to that weird abstract thing of all my other weird abstract stuff I make.

It was a crucial point to me in terms of understanding the power of self-expression in drawing and painting. Which is also what I had been doing until then.

I could put it all on the paper.

It would just stay there.

And it wouldn’t leave.

My #Artvsartist

Artvsartist

From left to right up and down order:

Illusion, Unchanged, Wanderer, Dandelions, (me), Union, Fears reader, Phi, Bonds of Hope.

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!