Hand study

I was looking around for a pair of hands to draw and I found a very nice photo on Pinterest of these hands. I really love how you can see a lot of the wrinkles and details in this aged hand. I'm always trying to get better at drawing hands even if its from a photo. I find it to be a good exercise to draw them from both a live model and a photograph.

Drawing Portrait Part 02

Once I was satisfied with the dry look of the colored pencils I started to add water, but very little at a time. After the paper dried I went over it again with the dry watercolor pencils to build up more color or to change it. The last photo is the finished work with it's frame.

Drawing the Figure

Here are a few more drawings from the last figure drawing class I went to. So far they have been fun and relaxing. And the best part is I get to spend some time with friends while drawing and on some nights go out for a drink afterwards.

Girl with thorned hair

This is a work in progress of a girl with a thorned hair prickling her finger. I'm still trying to work on the look of the torns which is her hair and the hands. I find hands are really hard to draw especially since I don't draw them often.

Birthday Cards

My mom's birthday was this past Friday and I always make her cards. I never buy cards for any occasion because I have more fun designing or drawing cards for my friends and family. I should try to remember to take photos of all the cards I made because there have been a lot through out the years.

Hand Studies

I used to draw hands more often just to get better at it. Hands have always been hard to draw and get proportionally right. The bottom drawing I did was of my own hand and the top was off a photo I found online. For my next drawings I will be photographing my own hands to draw so I can control the light and shadows.

Truth

This is a drawing I did as a gift to my husband's cousin's son for his first birthday. The little boy's name is Truth and he is the cutest boy ever. We spend some time with him and my husband's family in LA and on another occasion when they came to visit us in NYC. I took a lot of photos of Truth and wanted to do a drawing of him from one of the photos. I really liked the way this drawing came out and I was able to give it to my husband's cousin before we moved out of LA as a gift for their son.

Wicked Witch

I haven't updated in ages and a lot has happened since then. Here is a post to start things up.

Voluptuous Vixen

This is another sketch for the other blog that I'm keeping up with. The topic is Voluptous Vixen and I decided to draw Eve from the story of Adam and Eve. She is offering you the forbiden fruit as it covers part of her body. This was a quick sketch.

Rainbow Brite sketch

This sketch is for the other blog and the topic was Rainbow Brite. I decided to draw her as an old woman who has grown out of her clothes and is not the same sweet little girl. To me Rainbow Brite is from the past and since she is not an important character in my life I choose to depict her as an old idea.

Self Portrait

Trying to draw myself once more. I did this with just pencil and paper while preparing dinner. I need to practice more in order to get it to look more like me.

self portrait #4

A drawing of me with a hat and braids.

sketch

I imagined everything floating.

self portrait #2

Watercolors

self portrait

One of many self portraits, but this was trying a new technique with oil pastels.

Nude figure

This drawing was from a 30 minute pose. In class we start with 10 sec sketches and gradually work our way up to 30 minutes or 1 hour.

sketch

a figure study

white chalk on black paper

I used white chalk pastel on black bristol paper for this drawing.

Collage Drawing

I collected black and white images from magazines to create this collage. Then I drew the collage using pencil,charcoal and pastels.

Elephant drawing

I did this elephant drawing at the Museum of Natural History in NYC during my freshman year of college. There are two pieces of paper put together to complete the drawing.