My drawing journal. (Lots of pics!)

I MUST see more.. wow.. you are sooooo good.. can't even explain in words.. wonderful!

Thank you all so much! I'll see if I can upload a drawing of my parents soon after they got married.

Tinyliny~ I'm 15 and I've never had any instruction, I just do it for fun-- kind of a way for me to relax!

Jaydee~ I do want to get some good pencils, and do you know of a good brand of drawing paper?

I draw from photos. As you can see in the people pictures the hairstyles or old-fashioned. That's because they are my relatives a long time ago, when they were young. The last drawing was especially hard because the photo I copied from is OLD. They are my great grandparents that I never met.

Thanks again y'all!

Here is the one of my parents. I actually did this one with good pencils, that I just found again after all this time! And the horse one I have just now finished.

My son is an art student though he's now focusing on animation as a career. He uses Strathmore 500 series for his better pieces and the 300 series for general sketching as its cheaper. I have tried them both and they work well - we prefer a smooth surface for portraits and a more textured one for landscapes.
Working from photographs is better than 'drawing out of your head' - unless you're doing fantasy stuff of course!! Do try to work from 'real life' when you can though
Experiment with colour too - pastels, even crayons as well as watercolour and acrylics. Oil paints are expensive and have you ever looked at some of the amazing work done with egg tempera?

Excellent drawings! Especially love the one where he is kicking the guy

Amazing

Thanks a lot jaydee! I'll have to go buy me some paper now...

I am going to have to try to do some real life objects soon. I have only done a few of those and they were quite a long time ago.

I have such a hard time with color! Maybe I'll try it sometime again though. And I have never heard of egg tempera, I will definitely look that up. Water colors-- I did take a class and didn't enjoy it at all. Just didn't look real enough to me. Too cartoony, kinda.

Thank you, Sarahwind and silent storm!

Here is another one I have just finished! I drew it for a person on HF.

I'm about halfway through here.



Almost finished...



Done!



How did I do? Any changes I need to make?

WOW thank you SO SO SO much!!!! It is AMAZING!

Hehe...Well, I just realized something kind of embarrassing...I spelled Crescent wrong. I spelled it like Cresent instead of Crescent! I will have to definitely fix it tomorrow. OOPS!