This is Detective Seven from my new story "Mecca Subatlantica". It's a cyberpunk setting with a little steampunk feel.
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I’m often asked about my Bic pen drawings and how I do them. It starts with a good foundational drawing, the ballpoint pen part is just trying to colour within the lines. I try to do my best to explain the process, but the best way to show my progress is by posting my efforts to master pen drawings over the span of 3 or so years. I have been doodling/drawing with ballpoint pens as far back as I can remember - they were cheap, readily available and always lying around the house. It wasn’t until I was bored during a particularly long team meeting-conference call (around 2016-17) that I started to think about the possibilities of ballpoint pens as serious portrait illustration tools. My first experiments with full colour ink portrait drawings were rather crude, but that’s the point of learning new techniques—as long as the curiosity and the love of drawing is there, you can transfer that skill and passion into any medium. Remember, the most exquisite drawings and paintings you see didn’t materialise fully formed, they started out as failed experiments. Failure after failure after failure. It’s important to remember this when you get discouraged (I've failed spectacularly over the years). The only difference between the accomplished artist and the beginner is hundreds of hours of practice. Talent can only get you so far. It’s the hard work that you do behind the scenes that makes your work look effortless. Keep doodling. Keep learning. Stay curious.
I modified the challenge a wee bit. I didn't use the same paper for the various drawings since I was using (top row, left to right) hard graphite pencils (3H to HB), watercolor pencils, (bottom row, left to right) brush pens and ballpoint pen. These media work best on very different paper textures and moisture absorbing qualities. The second picture shows the object of my study --- and the apparatus I use to hold botanical subjects. "Third hand" tools are very useful and cheap. This one was under $10 and serves my purposes well. Just FYI. (Each drawing/painting was scanned and composited in Photoshop.)
A boldogság talán az erdőben élő szarvashoz hasonlítható leginkább. Néha előjön az erdő sűrűjéből, és meglátogat. De a tolakodó közeledést nem szereti, ha meg üldözőbe veszed, biztosan elmenekül előled.
Phyllis Theroux
Festette:Ildikó Tuloková
Akril/vászon
Every time she squatted in the clump of wavy grass, she felt like a Phoenix reborn.
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Girl takes her best friend for a sunset Bike Ride around a lake. Trying to create the same characters in multiple scenes. Would eventually like to illustrate my own kids book.
Vent art! Not sure what else to say about this. It's almost my birthday, at the time of writing. It'll be on November 13th. I probably won't post that day, but we'll see.
An old sketch of St. Christopher I did that I just penned in and colored today. ^_^ Very simple and it's very tiny but kinda cute huh? (It's not even as big as my thumb) :P #Catholic, #Christopher, #St.Christopher, #Jesus, #ChildJesus
BIC ballpoint stick pen drawing on Richeson bulk drawing paper. This started as a contour drawing and just got squiggly (not the original intent). This was clipped to my board for weeks and I would add a few squiggles from time to time when I wanted to make marks, but didn't have inspiration. It's just a bit under 15 inches (12x18 inch paper) and is probably about 25 hours of making little lines and squiggles. The reference was a Dreamstime royalty-free photo.
Questa è la foto di due bambini italiani che studiano una lezione dipinta dall'artista Jan Kowalski. L'ho trovato bello e meraviglioso, ho chiesto il suo permesso e ho ottenuto il suo consenso per condividere questo lavoro quassù. Se trovi questo lavoro bello e vuoi vedere più opere che dipinge, contattalo con le seguenti informazioni: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/allegracv.sgro/posts/934886496671042
Gmail: Jan.photographer1999@gmail.com
Nome dell'autore: Jan Kowalski
29. Old flames.
I am very literal today. Sometimes, it's the only way to be.
Prompts are from @JanelleCShane generated using the OpenAI net GPT-3.
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Yay! It's my Birthday! (Toon Link Windwaker style!). Hard to believe I'm 35 already :o (Oct. 29, 1986). All the seminarians sang happy birthday to me in english when I got my morning coffee. heh. If you wanna give me gifts send me Nintendo eShop card codes! Yay! Lol! Or just pray like super intensely for me or draw me something silly or donate to the order/my grandma or just say happy birthday. lol. Thanks in advance! ^_^
#Birthday, #ToonLink, #Windwakeer, #Monk, #Benedictine
