Portrait (2)

Don’t even ask me who this is.

 

Yes, it’s yet another colour pencil portrait. Did I mention I hate drawing people? This just confirms it. I don’t understand how Sam can enjoy drawing people. This is probably the last colour pencil portrait I’m going to draw. If I can help it, I never want to draw another human ever again. (But obviously that’s just wishful thinking on my part. I’ll probably have to draw more later.)

4-hour drawing #8

And this was drawn this week. New paper! It’s too smooth though. Anyway, water marks (is that what they’re called?) on the background.

4-hour drawing #7

YES! I actually know when this was drawn. Cause it was drawn last week.

I totally messed up on the paper. So the vegetables/fruits look like they’re floating.

4-hour drawing #6

This is not watercolour. Obviously.

4-hour drawing #5

Again, I have nothing to say. Except I had no idea what I was drawing, so don’t ask me what that green thing is. Both of the green things. I’m clueless.

4-hour drawing #4

Nothing to say for this one.

4-hour drawing #3

It’s a pumpkin if you can’t tell. Wait. Is it a pumpkin? I think it is. Sorry, I really have no knowledge of vegetables. I messed up on the pumpkin. Messed up big time. Didn’t know how to draw the seed part. And I accidentally made it too dark.

4-hour drawing #2

I think I messed up on the raddish. And the raddish’s shadows.

But I like the onion.

4-hour drawing #1

I call these series of drawings my 4-hour drawings since I spend 4 hours to finish each of them. I admit, sometimes I take 3 hours for the easier drawings and 5 hours for the harder ones. But mostly, it’s done in four hours.

I know I call this post 4-hour drawing #1, but it’s not actually my first drawing of this ’series’. Cause I actually forgot to date them, which is why I forgot which ones I drew first and so on. So I’m going to randomly number them.

Anyway. This is a new style of watercolour painting for me. I used to do the blending kind of paintings, but now I’m doing the exxagerated kind of painting.

And I have to say. I can’t really sit there and draw for 4 hours. I’m usually at my limit at 3. So very often, I’d make some stupid, irreversible mistake. And leave watermarks everywhere. But I think my patience/concentration has been improving. At least I can concentrate for 3 and half hours now – if I like what I’m drawing. And yes, they’re all still life. And yes, I actually had the objects in front of me.

Green woman!

Here’s a drawing I did last year, copying some jewellery advertisement.

The pencil strokes are visible. Very visible. It wasn’t at first, but I got a little impatient and started using pencils with blunt tips and started to care less about the amount of pressure I was using. (I hated her for being so green.) Also, in my picture, I have a feeling that I made her look more oriental than she’s supposed to be. Ah well. The ear could be improved too, but I have no idea how to make it come out. It looks like a piece of cardboard.