Steemit Engagement Challenge S7W3: Dibujando mi foto / Drawing my photo

Greetings friends!

It was not easy for me to do this, but I decided to try to draw a drawing of a photo that I once made personally for the Steemit Engagement Challenge S7W3: Dibujando mi foto / Drawing my photo.

I said that this is not an easy decision for me yes usually I draw what I can imagine come up with but I never draw using a sample in the form of a different image.

Although in 2018 I helped my son draw a poster that depicted the structure of a carp fish and I needed to enlarge the image from the size of a matchbox to A1 paper sheet format.

But I had no practice in this matter and, therefore when I chose a photograph for a sample and began to draw I felt like a first grader who came to first grade for the first time.

But gradually after many trials and errors I came to some kind of denominator which can be called a drawing of a photograph with a stretch.

While working I had a chance to laugh at myself because I understood that my eye did not obey me at all and every now and then I went in the direction where I had to go or rather draw.

This is what my final work looks like.

Yeah lol I chose for this work a photo of this cute guy who was trying to crawl across the roadway after an overnight downpour.

Many of his fellow slugs were already under the wheels of cars and they were smeared on the asphalt but this handsome man continued on his way and raised his head and leg when I photographed him

Yes I forgot to introduce him - a cephalopod mollusk slug of his own person.

I liked the play of light in the photo and the fact that the body of the slug is very textured, because he became the hero of this post.

I started painting at 11:00 yesterday and finished painting at 16:45 but I could only see the object the slug only from 11:30 to 11:00 during this period there was no electricity and my laptop battery was completely dead.

But I continued to draw I even liked it draw from memory.

Minus small breaks the work took about five hours.

I think that it will be more convenient for you to compare the photograph with the drawing.

Yes I don’t argue there are significant differences but it only means that I have something to learn and I will gladly do it I hope so.

I drew in my daughter's sketchbook 22x22 cm.

For work I used pencils with graphite core stiffness H, B, 2B, 3B.

I really needed an eraser and a pencil sharpener.

At some point I regretted that I had chosen this photograph for a sample but at some point some understanding came of how to draw and what.

When I needed to think about the mistakes I drew the background, the texture of the asphalt.

The place where the snail has a shell haunted me I understood that I needed to make changes and until I figured out how to do it I continued to work on the background.

Gradually the slug began to look like a slug but when the electricity appeared and I was able to turn on the laptop I realized that the shapes of my slug are somewhat different from the photograph but I decided to leave everything as it is because there should be a little creativity in this work, lol.

There was free space on the sheet of paper and I decided to fill it in and turn the drawing into a photograph that lies on the table.

An image of an eraser and a pencil completed my work on the drawing.

This picture is my participation in the contest ‍🖍️Steemit Engagement Challenge S7W3: Dibujando mi foto / Drawing my photo organized by @nelsondoor.

I want to invite my friends to participate in the competition: @kaminchan, @bengy, @tonyz.

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Have a blessed day!

Category:	Art, drawing, bible, illustration.
Tools:	Graphite pencils HB and 2=HB, eraser, sharpener.
The format of a sheet of paper, canvas:	Sheet of paper A5.
Location:	Ukraine
Author:	Author @barski. In my publications you will see only my author's works.

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