Here comes a new day and I have the opportunity to continue my story about how I tried to learn to draw with graphite pencils setting myself not the easiest tasks.
You can take a responsible attitude to the matter and sometimes, especially when it comes to very important moments for many people such as for example the Bible you need to take a very responsible attitude to the matter and this helped me in my work even without having serious drawing skills.
And as you know from one of my previous publications I wanted to illustrate the chapters of the Bible as I imagine them reading and delving into the essence of the words of the Holy Scripture.
This time I illustrated the ninth chapter of the book of Genesis which tells about the first days after the Great Flood when Noah and his family found the land and began to develop it by planting vineyards.
God in turn showed them a rainbow in the sky and gave them a covenant that he would never destroy humanity again.
Very inspiring words that you need to keep in your heart because it gives hope for the future especially in times of war.
On the one hand, the picture of planted vineyards in the middle of deserted mountains and hills where Noah did everything may seem like something that could instill pride in Noah's heart.
He could have said how cool he was that he was able to do all this on a desert island but no he gave all the glory for it to God and therefore he was blessed.
I grew up in a country with many vineyards on the hills and I had an idea of what a young vineyard might look like and this helped me to depict on paper what is described in the ninth chapter of Genesis.
While I was drawing I had to understand how the texture of the wooden poles for tying up the grapes would look how the ropes stretched between the poles the leaves and vines of the grapes the soil the mountains the horizon and the transparent rainbow in the sky would look.
This was a great experience for further work on subsequent drawings.
There were moments when I felt like a person who had to cut his way through the forest because some moments of the drawing were not so easy for me.
But after a few hours from the start of work I got the desired result at that time and as I already said this was one of my first drawings drawn in December 2022.
My collection of drawings was then replenished with another work.
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Links to a collection of my drawings in my posts:
My Journey Through the Graphite World - On the edge of the world.
My Journey Through the Graphite World - Dogmas about dinosaurs.
My Journey Through the Graphite World - Rural Evryday Life..
