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Hello. I don’t know how to begin posts and videos so I’ll just start this way. Aside from art class projects and some sketchbook doodling, it’s been a while since I complete a drawing. That happens because I’ve been studying. A lot. And I only had the time to finish this because I promised myself I’d only study during the Easter vacations after completing the drawing I’ve been working on for months. Sounds like it took me a ton of time, but in the video editor, it said 19 hours. I’ve been feeling I should only work on a piece when it’s being recorded, and I want to move away from that, so I worked a bit on it off camera. So I was saying I’ve been studying. It has been mostly art history. See, at the end of this school year, that is, June, the middle of the actual year, I’ll have two exams. One being Art History And for now none of the fine art courses in college really interest me so I’m investing on Art History, which is something I absolutely have a passion for. I guess I have a passion for anything art in general. But then again, I can change my mind. And I need to study geometry too. And philosophy. As for art history, I’ll have to read about the twentieth century movements starting from fauvism. These include abstract art. How fitting. Thanks Kandinsky. The promise I said I made myself, though… I kinda broke it. I watched some documentaries about post impressionistic artists like Van Gogh and Cezanne, but I guess that doesn’t count because I was drawing anyway.

Since I moved the paper a lot I decided to make this video longer, in order to make it a little bit easier on the eye. Just in case you didn’t know, it’s possible to change the speed in the video options. I probably won’t be uploading for a while. I usually post my WIPs on facebook or instagram, if you’d like to see them. WIP means work in progress by the way. I should do more for this channel than just graphite drawings anyway. It’s my favourite medium but I shouldn’t stick to one thing only here. On Art Class we’ve been working with liquid watercolors and bleach, copying african sculptures and rugs. The bleach serves to open up the white of the paper on the dark background. We use it diluted, so it makes nice shading effects. My next video will probably be a mixed media project with watercolors and colored pencils, since I have few of these. And it will take a while. I recently bought some cheap oil pastels too. It’s strange. I get really nervous in stores in general and art supplies stores are no exception, so while I was walking around to get myself some courage to go to the balcony and do the payment, and spent some time looking at the pastels section near it. I got four colours and one of them seemed to be similar to sanguine but turns out when I got home I found out it was carmine. I’m just writing about stuff that doesn’t matter, so I’ll stop now.