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AND TELL YOU HOW I FELT MAKING THEM, AND HOW I SEE THEM NOW THAT I HAVE IMPROVED. 👩‍🎨

Let us begin in reverse.

I will show you the best ones I've made at the end of my 1 year art practice in art school. Let us begin to analyze.

This classical piece that we copied from, I forgot what title it is honestly I'm so sorry.
Title: untitled
Medium: charcoal and chalk on brown paper
Size: 24 x 18 inches (estimate)
Time: 2 weeks

Our class was 5 days a week, 8 hours of drawing and only one break, lunch break.
It was a very enjoyable but tiring time. We had lessons on art theory and reading about basic elements and principles.

This one, is the biggest charcoal art I have evee made.

Across the drawing board I taped the brown paper and started drawing.
The whole time I felt unsure whether I was doing okay, anatomy seemed a bit hard doing it freehand. Our teachers were there to guide us.
After making this I felt:

• Accomplished
• I felt skilled (wow I just impressed myself)
• I loved how it looked
• I thought I did the best I could
• Started comparing with others
• Learned to use chalk for highlights
• Realized how charcoal is so messy and I don't like it but the end results are worth it.
• Applied the light application/spraying of fixative so it does not get smudged.

What about now?

Now I see a few things differently.

• The angle of the hand is wrong, doesn't she look like she has an extra elbow? Haha
• Eyebrows too thick and uneven
• Her instrument isnt drawn well
• Gravity and drapery doesn't look well presented.
• The gradation could use a smoother effect

If I would do a remake of this, I'd probably carefully apply the pencil strokes and focus more on making the clothes realistic and fixing the anatomy of her body and the realistic look and on her facial proportions.

Next,

Title: self portrait
Medium: graphite pencil on cartolina paper
Size: 26 x 18 inches (estimated)
Time: 2 weeks

This is one of the most hectic pieces ever, so much time pressure.

While creating this artwork I felt very proud of it:

• I love the hair texture and strokes
• The sleeves were detailed
• Kinda looks like me or the reference pic

And Now

• The necklace lacks shadow
• The gradient is very rough, with slower and finer strokes a more real effect can be achieved
• The shading on the skin is too light
• I could make it look more like me next time.

But still I still love this, and is the biggest self portrait ever.

Ball Pen Art

This ballpen art we copied from a model box with lights. So the reference is not from a picture but real items placed before us.
Title: boots
Medium: leone ballpen on cartolina
Size: 18 x 26"
Time: 2 weeks
This was very fun to draw and easier.
Be careful of ink blotches, wipe it on a piece of cloth or paper and always shade from lightest to dark
No erasures make it even harder but slowly it can be achieved.

This was very awesome to me, and it was the trickiest ever. How do you create a shiny bottle effect? How to create a woody texture? Shiny leather?
Overall it was successful.
I was very proud and satisfied.

Critique:

• The bottle could use more curvey stroke of shading.
• Thegradation could be more realistic if I add more midtone.
• Organized and finer strokes would make it look way better
• Avoiding blotching, more care in drawing

I do hope I can make another ballpen art masterpiece.

Ballpen Self Portrait

Title: self portrait in distorted grid
Medium: leone and faber castel ballpen on cartolina paper
Time: 2weeks

I created my own distortions according to the instruction of our professor Rey bollozos.

• I was happy with the different styles I used for this art like pointilism, scribbling, cross hatching and other strokes.

Now:

• I could improve the precision with copying the subject.

Thats all I think needs work.

Title: untitled
Medium: colored pencils

For this piece I felt confused how to create the metallic shine and depth and reflections. But I came up with a good enough result.

If I were to comment on this now,
I'd say:

• It's too pale
• Needs more realism
• The shading is wrong
• Needs more details

My Portrait Attempts in Graphite and Colored Pencils

These are my earlier pieces, prior to making those first ones I showed.

For now, I will just point out the "mistakes" or things I could have done better

I tried to draw myself with longer hair here, that time I had short hair.
Manual photoshop.

• This lacks depth and shadows
• Hair is messy with no highlights
• Still doesn't look like me

• This one is unfinished but it's only midtone for now
• No other comment

• Messy shading
• Lacks darker shades
• Dirty smudges

• The nose is not as defined
• Rough shading
• Messy hair
• Unfinished look
• Lacks darker hues
• No highlights

Oh this is very emotional, this is a portrait I made where I've had more practice.

• There's highlights for the tears that's good
• Hairs so messy still
• There are lyrics or a song on the side no no, not good

Here's my first try to make a colored pencil portrait of myself long ago.

• Colors are so pale
• Rough strokes
• Shading is flat
• I get lazy drawing and shading the clothes

This is a caricature I made of me, so, it's less on accuracy and more on distortions.

• still pale
• Rough strokes
• Hard blending

2D Art

Lets go back farther to the past and view some pages from my visual diary. Its a sketchbook we are required to fill for developing our ideas and creativity.

Overall, these are flat line art with maybe very little shading.
I guess what I can say is I drew these in a rush so the:

• Shading is rough
• Proportions not as good

Here they are!

She's supposed to be japanese, I am fond of learning languages so I put some characters or something. (It is wrong grammar to whoever can read this) self taught!

Chinese theme, after visiting the match maker. Yeah this is like in mulan.

Some greek mythology, a dryad. These were ideas for some sculpture too.

Ice or water element, I just got carried with the ice. I forgot if this was a mermaid or what maybe no.

This is definitely fire and volcano haha.

Okay this is a more serious model for a sculpture. More 3D, and it's still rough and messy though.
That's something I couldn't work on.

But maybe I did!

Talk about dragons!

some good inspiration can boost your level up!

John howes how to forge a dragon. I copied some example he made. He is just so creative.

MORE OF THE NOW ART

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5 Years later

so, here are some artworks I made that I made, some for some steemit contests and some for practice and for other art websites.

If you noticed some differences with my output, drop it in the comments below.

• I've learned to use other mediums like watercolor
• Mixed media
• Discovered the mechanical pencils and erasers
• Used white ink
• Blends darker hues

Closure

I am actually letting these go, maybe give them away or sell them.
They've been a part of my journey but I think they'll make other people feel happy :) I will post this on my fb perhaps. Soon.
Just had to document them and put my thoughts together.
I am happy!

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

this has been my art journey before I started drawing again last 2017.
I had stopped for 3-4 years and showing some of them and some recent art.
Glad to share. ♥️♥️♥️

I am so excited for this coming months, new art mediums to try and master.
Stay tuned!

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