Art Share🎨

Hi! I can't draw to save my life, but since I discovered colouring books (I didn't know they had them for adults, and especially I didn't know they made non-mandala ones!!!!) I've been feeling like a kid again.

I'm even using the same coloured pencils I bought and carried around since primary school.

I used Staedler Pencil Noris Colours and Royal Talens colour pencils, both packs of 24 colours.

So my message to any person that itches to create something but feels that it's a huge task (I got overwhelmed drawing), please do give colouring books a chance.

You can get nice colours for little money (I paid 7€ for the Royal Talens pack) and the books themselves aren't particularly expensive, especially if you are slooooow colouring like I am.

Don't be afraid to try something new, and don't let your age stop you from choosing cute books with huge drawings. Paint rainbows, colour flowers, take your time drawing sunglasses on the sun!!!

Based on a Lautrec-Toulouse piece

The latest in my growing collection of portraits marking the current political era in the US.

I'm still following tutorials but I'm having a lot of fun exploring mediums and seeing myself improve. I really like the branches and twigs it adds so much more depth.

From my archive, when I used to make smudge paint. I will definitely be bringing back this style in future artworks.

Link to timelapse

Her name is Anouk. She is an oc for a book series im reading. The name is stolen from a discord server for said book series :3

Left is looking at the model and painting for 1.5 hours, right is taking a picture of the model and keeping the photo of her next to the painting for 15 minutes. Clearly focusing on painting from a digital reference is a much different skill set than looking at a person. I'm going to try to learn the grid process for when I go back.

TimeLapse Video

Having fun, started as a study on eyes and turned into the rest of the face on accident. Bob-Ross'd it.