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@Kate-Flournoy, thankyou for the compliments. I had not realized that the tortoise employed geometric patterns, so I guess I just like winging it. It does seem that stippling works best when depicting subjects with rough textures like reptiles and crustaceans. I do like doing artwork as it flows; I have to be in the right mood to draw because pictures look lousy when they are forced. Sorry I took so long to get back to you.
@Bluejay, thank you! Stippling takes a lot of time and patience, but I think that it’s results are the most realistic of all inkwork. It seems that it would work best for drawing animals with rough skin(crabs, reptiles, etc…), and I have seen a few stippled portraits of people. This was my first drawing with my own ink pens, and it suffered from my first blot( which you will see in the center of the left forward scute). I hope to do more stippling when I am able.
Thankyou and praise God! Sorry I took so long to respond. Both pencils and markers have pros and cons– you get clearer definition with markers, and you can shade better with pencils. The one main drawback to using pencils is that they can rough up the paper a bit, but this can be fixed by using the right kind of paper and solvents. I used watercolor pencils when I was much younger, and I hope to use them again soon.
This is my first stippling. Stippling is tedious, and I have not done it in several years. However, the results are well worth the work.
Praise God, it finally worked! This depiction of a peregrine falcon is one of my latest colored pencil pieces. I used my brand new set of prismacolors and am very pleased with them. We darkened the picture a little so that it would show up better, and my wonderful siblings worked tirelessly to get it on the forum. i hope you all enjoy it.
@Kate-Flournoy, great job! The faces are beautiful. Oils and watercolors are opposites when it comes to thickness. You mentioned having to use many layers to attain the desired look; however, when I did my oil painting of Simeon blessing Jesus at the temple, the paint on Mary’s face was so thick that I had to scrape it off several times in order to keep it from looking blotchy, crusty, and wrinkled. Smaller than a dime, her face took a very long time to perfect. I have observed that if you make your original work large, and then shrink the copies, it hides the mistakes.
Sorry, didn’t work.
@Kate-Flournoy, facial expressions are amazing, but difficult. I am not nearly as good at people as I am at depicting animals. Just tried to post my newest piece- a prismacolor drawing of a peregrine falcon- but it didn’t work. I may try again later.Birds are beautiful, but the feathers can be a little tedious. Fish are fun because, if they don’t have large scales, they have very little texture and are therefore easy to color. I like all ocean life, and also enjoy drawing whales and dolphins. I have not thought much about drawing seals yet, but I will consider it. I always like depicting living, moving creatures. I have a particular liking for showing regal animals in a way that fully portrays their majesty, though I also like catching them in their humorous everyday moments- like a macaw preening or sprawling across two branches in an attempt to reach a berry. What is your favorite drawing subject?
That is outstanding! Those stones look three-dimensional. Watercolor can be tricky because it is so thin, so it takes a lot of skill to turn out such a beautiful piece. Good job, Kate!
@bluejay, thank you, praise God it turned out well.
@Kate-Flournoy, I did try wood burning once; I made a beautiful picture of a ring- necked pigeon and then ruined it by burning the background in an attempt to make it a night-time portrait. I may try it again at some point. Ink blots can be a problem, but I usually solve them by transforming them into buckets or shark fins and suchlike. ( If you look carefully, you will notice that the rope bucket behind the whaler in the lower left rowboat used to be a muffed head.)
@Kate-Flournoy, we did scan the pictures and then Sarah posted them on our unfinished website, from whence we posted them on here. Painting this one was fun, especially since I was doing it for a close friend. You will, however, notice that the sky has several layers to to the short drying time and therefore relatively poor blending qualities of acrylic paint.
Thanks everyone! I’m glad y’all like the pictures. I could not do any of them without the help of the Lord.
@Kate-Flournoy, I most enjoy drawing birds and fish. I have been using the same set of ergosoft pencils for the past six years, and I just got a new set of prismacolors a few weeks ago. I usually draw pictures for thank-you cards, but I occasionally make ordinary pictures.
