Day 2 of my Restarted 4 New Arts a Day!

And Day 2! It's good to be back. Much better idea for me to update these in the morning, instead of waiting until evening, even if it does mean getting up an hour earlier. My mind is alive with things I want to paint for you guys! And draw, pen, and illustrate - good thing this is a Sunday, because I'm going to be busy.

Any requests?


5b) Falling Drowning



This is going to be a painting - what's the feeling you get when you look at this? Really look at it - gives me a feeling of vertigo, and I'm the one who drew it. Great exercise for improving your straight-line and square/rectangle drawing. Make sure to plan it out ahead of time though, or you might find yourself falling off the page.

6b)



This was fun. Started when I glanced at a photo I had of myself and whipped a permanant marker across the page - that gave me the hairline and neck, so I just tossed in the ears, nose, eyes, and chin, there I had... well, mostly me. Not quite though, since I just outlined that in about twenty seconds, so I spent a bit of time 'masaging' the rest of it with the pen I had on hand, give it some depth and roundness, shading; in retrospect I should have left off the shoulders and chest, but I think the face turned out well enough for a quick thing for me to post up here.

Definatly going to do more like this, but with more forethought and planning to achieve a more realistic presentation.

7b) Unknown Leaf



Not sure exactly what kind of leaf this is, but I love the depth, shading and tone, roundness I managed to give to it. Started off with calligraphy pen and a bottle of ink, about a 1.2 millimeter nib to get the bones of it, the darks, then a regular HB pencil to seperate the leaf from the whitespace surrounding it, and a heave plack conte crayon for those darks along the edges, and the modelling in the center mass of the leaf.

Anyone recognice the species of plant this leaf comes from?

8b) Unknown Flower



A flower this time, again I'm not certain of the species, though it's vaguely familiar. Nothing too fancy with this, just regular old pencil, though I was surprised how much that rough toned background made the lightness of the flower stand out.