Here’s some of the art I’ve been working on lately. I’m actually a little embarrassed to admit that up until now, I’ve just been working with crappy Crayola colored pencils for my drawings. But, I got some new art supplies that I’m really excited about. I now have a set of 60 Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils and a set of 60 Faber-Castell watercolor pencils, in the spirit of trying something new (trying new art media was part of my New Year’s resolution, after all!). So here are a couple recent drawings I made. The first is a sakura short-tailed ryukin that I drew with the Polychromos pencils. I drew this one intending to list it for sale on my Etsy store, but I’ve already become a little attached to it… so I may have to make some prints to sell. The second is a close-up of Monocle, my one-eyed butterfly telescope, that I made using the watercolor pencils. This drawing had a blue wash background that just looked really bad, so I ended up cutting out the fish and pasting him over a clean sheet of white paper. Much better! If you’ve seen any of my goldfish art before, you’ll know that I love me a nice plain white background. I’ve also included a little peek into my sketchbook. From left to right the sketches are; Luca, Haunt, and a few different angles on a celestial eyed goldfish. I used my Yujin gashapon as a reference.
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Faber-Castell watercolor pencils and polychromos pencils |
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Sakura short-tailed Ryukin |
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Monocle – my one-eyed butterfly telescope |
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A peek into my sketchbook! |
Tags: art, butterfly, drawing, faber-castell, Monocle, painting, pencil, polychromos, ryukin, sketchbook, Solid Gold Sketchbook, watercolor
8 Comments
Very nice. They really bring out the depth of color better than Crayola…, I don’t think I’ve used Polychromos, but I used to love Oil Pastels. Have fun drawing!
Very beautiful artwork! I’m glad the New Year’s resolution has not been forgotten. 🙂 The closeup portrait of Monocle is really amazing. He really comes off the page and his face is just incredibly detailed. He may be missing an eye, but he makes a great subject for artwork I’d say.
These pictures look amazing.I especially love the one of Monocle.Cutting it out added to the effect, it looks like he is swimming right at you. I wish I had talent like this.Thanks for sharing yours!
Aren’t polychromos awesome? You’ve got such lovely drawings and colors!
You really are a great artist. You should make prints of some of those and put them on etsy
Thanks Evan, I am planning to!
Nope, not forgotten!I haven’t had time to draw as much I wanted to, but I’m trying to squeeze it in whenever I get the chance.:)
Hi! I was wondering what paper you use for your drawings. I really really love your goldies drawings!!!!!
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