A Drawing to Express the Power Of Steem.

For the last 3 days I have been working on this drawing of a girl in awe of the possibilities that Steem represent for all of us. Each time I enter the Steem world I feel amazed, excited, and inspired from the awesome content made by all you wonderful Steemians.

I have done my best to express the Steem feeling in this drawing:

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How I made it

I used our kitchen table as my workspace and a lot of various tools. First I sketched it on thick drawing paper with a normal HB drawing-pencil. Brand: Faber-Castell. Size of the paper is A3. Then I started colouring with lyra colour-pencils and making the colors brighter with brilliant color markers from Staedtler. I also used some cheap acrylic paint for the white shiny spots. If you want to create art you can use any tools or materials you have available. Mix up pencils and paint or use other materials you find interesting. The only limits are your imagination. I still don't feel finished with this drawing but I never do, and when I keep “fixing” my work I always end up ruining it, so I think I will stop and let it be as it is now.

The artist at work. I don't have any professional art tools or great artistic skills, but I still enjoy being in the creative process.

Work in progress. When you start creating you must allow yourself to make a lot of mess.

What art means to me

I started drawing and painting when I was very young. Drawing was one of the greatest joys of my childhood. Me and my sister used to draw on everything we could find, we used up our drawing books faster than our parents could by new ones, so we used old envelopes and the backside of bills and mail letters. Our grandparents who lived next door actually used to save all their envelopes for us to draw on. We also drew on the inside of books and on the walls to our mother's great frustration. We used to draw stories together, we played with the characters in the drawings and made them meet each other on another paper that we drew together.

This great joy for drawing have stayed with me all my life. I never draw unless I really want to, for me drawing is only fun and a way to forget myself for a while. When I draw I sometimes enter Flow state. In this state all my thoughts disappear and I become the empty and willing tool for some higher creative power that effortlessly use my hands to play and create.

Here is another drawing I made using the same color theme.

This is actually the first time I have drawn anything in about 3 months. Even if I have long breaks from creating, I always seem to come back to it somehow. It is like an internal itch that needs scratching from time to time. What are your experiences with creativity? What is your favorite art form? Now we can finally create and share our work here on Steemit. So dust of your art tools and start creating!

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