"Passage of Hope"- A realistic Pencil Drawing

Hi great people of steem

I come our way with a recent pencil piece I made. I call this piece “Passage of Hope”.

I freely expressed myself in this piece because for sometime now, I have been looking for ways to heal me through my art and I found a better way of doing that. I make art the way I feel and not being compelled to go with the trend.

This piece, I fused in abstract and realism together. In the hair, I made an impression of a forest with birds going in through a channel and the expression on my subjects face shows mix feelings. A feeling of sadness and Relief. This helps in conveying the random thought in my mind.

We as humans, we need that channel where good things pass through to get to us and until we possess this channel, we may never have be genuinely satisfied to be humans. This channel can be given or it can be self-made.

We shouldn’t ignore this crucial aspect of our very existence and if we can be channels to others, and ourselves, then the world will surely be a beautiful place. I hope we find the channel we deserve and also create one to benefit others.

Below are the progress shots

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This piece is 36inches by 48inches which can also be written as 36"×48" and it was done with

• generals charcoal pencils
• soft graphite pencils
• tortillons or blending stump
• tombow mono zero Elastomer eraser
• kneaded eraser
• flat brushes, makeup brushes
• tissue paper
• Drawing board
• A clean sheet of small paper

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The function of these materials are:

• General's charcoal pencil: A chalky medium, used in drawing/shading dark tones and also to add dark details in drawing

• Soft Graphite pencils: Used to draw outlines and also add shades in drawing

• Tortillon/blending stump: a soft paper-like material used mainly for blending and to add details in drawing

• Tissue paper: Used for blending

• Soft flat brushes/makeup brushes: Used also for blending. The different textures of the brush gives different textures in the drawing

• Tombow mono zero Elastomer eraser: used to clean unwanted part and also add highlights in drawing

• Kneaded eraer: An eraser that can be folded to any shape, used also to add soft highlights and also clean unwanted parts in drawing

• Paper: A base where we draw on. And about papers, the quality of paper matters, there are some that can hold our chalky medium more than others. But I most of the time make use of the pelican papers and bristol(strathmore) paper

• A clean sheet of paper: This can be a very small sheet of paper that can be used to place our hands when drawing to avoid smudging our drawing.

Smudging is basically messing up our drawing with dirt's on our fingers. It can be dirt's from the oils on our hands or charcoal residue. Sometimes It is difficult to clean the dirt's off our drawings so it is best we avoid smudging our drawings.

Thank you for reading through. Much love