I've been wanting to make a speed drawing video. So, this weekend I decided to do it. But first I had to decide what to draw. Sammy suggested drawing a floating island, and that's what I chose to draw.
The drawing itself was fun to draw (I might draw another floating island drawing that's more complicated). Making the video wasn't quite as much fun, but I'm pleased with how it turned out. I didn't have a stand for my phone, so Sammy built one for me out of Legos. It wasn't ideal, but it worked.
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'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus
Words by: Louisa M.R. Stead Music by: William J. Kirkpatrick Arranged by: Phillip Keveren I really like this arrangement and plan to practice it more. Hope you like it too! I decided that I wanted to paint a picture of a sunrise. So I looked up images of sunrises and picked one I liked. It's actually a picture of the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
I started on the painting Friday night and finished it on Saturday. The colors aren't as brilliant as they are in the photo, it's hard to get really strong colors with watercolors. My watercolors are also somewhat cheap, so they aren't very bright anyway. I started by sketching out the basics with a pencil. Then I did the sky, using the wet on wet method, you wet the paper with clean water first, then add in your color and it bleeds out and makes it look really soft (which is what you want when you are painting a sky, no harsh edges). After that, I worked on everything else. I came back and added to the sky at least twice, I think, but I don't think I should have done it the last time, the sky would have looked better. The painting of course has mistakes in it, but I had a lot of fun painting it and I like how it turned out. My favorite part is probably the river, I think that's the part that turned out best. I've been reading these books by Brian Jacques. It's like if you took a fantasy book and turned all the characters into woodland animals (that basically means, animals with weapons fighting other animals). They're pretty fun to read, but kind of long and there are a lot of them. I've only read the first book and I'm working on the second.
What I like about these books is the details. There's a lot of description of where the animals live and what they eat. I also like how the names of the characters describe and kind of give you an idea about what the characters are like. The picture is of the second and the third book, but the second is a prequel to the first one, but it doesn't really matter which order you read them in. These are a few drawings that I've done recently.
The water droplet drawings were just practicing and experimenting. I had watched a YouTube video (that's where I learn a lot of new ideas and techniques) on how to draw them and decided to try it out for myself. I like how the water drops turned out, but they can definitely be improved. I used graphite pencils, a white charcoal pencil, and white gel pen. The quirky landscape was just a random sketch that I had drawn and then I was wanting to paint something but couldn't think of what to paint, so I just used the sketch as an idea. I like the painting overall, but there are a few details that I would do differently. I mostly used watercolor paint, but I also used chalk pastels, black pen, white gel pen, watercolor pencils, and a little bit of colored pencil. P.S. If you're wondering how I could have possibly drawn the houses so crooked, I meant for them to look that way. ;) |
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