See You At Dawn:

see you at dawn :

give a hand :

1/100 hope it’s never too late! I’m barging in 3-materials-drawing-challenge hosted by @naomitippingillustrator, @charlotte.durance and @kathryn_boyt at its equator. 

The point of this challenge is to draw every day of 100 days from life using just 3 materials and for no more than 30 minutes. 

While looking forward to having a specific reason to draw from life every day, I also feel a bit terrified of using few materials — but all limitations are good, so I suppose I’ll stick with you for some time.

I used an orange Neocolor by Caran d'ache, a blue Copic marker and a pink Van Gogh oil pastel from Royal talens for this one. Drew it as fast as I could because of the mosquitos (((╬ Ò﹏Ó)

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light up

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here is the world, before it was awakened :

Your art is very beautiful and I really admire your choice of colours . I absolutely admire how you paint the lips and nose. Can you please tell me what you do to give your lips a 3D effect? What do you use first (markers or pastels)?

thank you so much! I’m so glad to hear that. ♡♡

and thanks for the question, too. It’s made me think hard… So hard that I had to draw something making photos along the way. I’m not very pleased with this drawing but for art’s sake I’m attaching the photo of the process.

I believe that much of the success depends on the first pencil sketch. I use the sharpest side of a pencil lead for the deepest shadows (like a line of a mouth f. e.) and lineart, then, with the broad side of it, I make less dark areas (like the mouth itself + other areas but I was too lazy to draw them carefully on the example). After that I apply bright and light accents with markers (so yes, markers go first) — 2d and 3d steps on the pic (on this stage my drawing looks like a disaster, haha.....). Then I switch to a darker color (4th step, and it looks better!). In the 5th pic I added a dark violet pastel pencil to enhance the contrast and add texture at the same time and also a light salmon pink one to balance colors. Finally, I used oil pastels, not really successfully in that case I could say — it’s always a gamble, you know, at which point you’d f#$k it all up (or not). So, I guess, contrasting colors + different texture + original pencil sketch do the work you’re talking about.

gee, I’m not sure that it was so helpful but let’s pretend it was!!