drawings – Harley Makes Art

I’ll start with what I’m most excited about.

I like to switch it up. I love realistic work, which, I believe will aid me in drawing well from fantasy… That’s the thing right there, I also want to draw from my head. So, I do both. One day I’d like to be at the level where I could do CGI for movies and video games, if I wanted. I’m certainly not there yet and probably won’t be there for years. My cartoon-y stuff is improving, though, which makes me happy. Studying figure anatomy is helping.

My friend says the girl looks like me, probably because I’ve been painting self portraits. It’s likely an idealized version of myself, if anything… That flower was drawn from a fake flower. Real life.

I have plans for these sketches. The chick is gonna go on this wooden secret book thing I bought at Michael’s… I’m curious about working on wood, it’s certainly more pourous…

The stencil moved a little as I was transferring, but I should still be able to make it look just fine.

This is the way I transfer my sketches onto a canvas or other surface. It’s a tedious process, but precise. And cheaper than transfer paper… I trace my original sketch, then I go over those lines on the opposite side with a charcoal pencil. Then, I put the tracing paper over the new surface, tape it down, and go over the lines again with a different colored pen, to make it easier.

Sometimes, I like to paint freely. It lets me adopt new ideas and it gives my brain a breakfor a bit.

Artist tape is expensive. It’s probably something I’ll start ordering on Amazon.

I’ve been wanting to develop new styles and ideas for my backgrounds, I’m pretty happy with this, actually. I was messing around on these canvases previously. I just used some artist tape and then colored each of the sections. I like the results. I’ll probably paint some flowers on these or something since there seems to be a market for that kind of art, anyway. The flower sketch I showed you at the beginning will probably go on one of these.

When I was camping over the holiday, I took photos of flowers around the park as well as different textures and anything else I found interesting. I can use these as references later with no risk of being sued.

I’ll say it again, I love working big… It’s more expensive, but the results are worth it. Gonna keep working on this until I’m satisfied… I decided I’m gonna buy big canvases from now on, whenever I can. Obviously, they are expensive.

That big one would normally cost over $50 at Michael’s.

I got these canvases on sale, 50% off. If not for that, I wouldn’t have bought them. I’m always keeping my eye out for sales.

An experimental piece that I actually want to sell.

So this is a piece I just finished, it’s not my best work and yet I still really like it. Something about it… The drawings are mannequins that I drew years ago while taking classes. What makes me happy was how I shaded that first mannequin pretty realistically without any reference. That shows improvment… And I don’t know, I just feel there’s some symbolism here. I’ll probably sell it pretty cheap but I think I’m still gonna sell it.

I’m finishing up old pieces that are already less skilled than my current work, which makes me proud! I’m so glad to find myself constantly improving. The hard work is really paying off and no matter what might be happening in my life… I have this. Thanks for reading!

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