Hi friends of HIVE today I want to present you a couple of drawings made by me when I was just a teenager, I don't remember exactly my age when I made them but it was when I was between 15 and 16 years old. Both drawings were made based on a pc games magazine, I don't remember the name of the magazine since it's been about 20 years, but I do know that in those days they were very popular.
The first drawing I want to present is from the cover of the aforementioned magazine, it was a drawing that for me was very artistic for who designed it, is based on a game called "black and white" and that if I remember it clearly because I read the reviews and ended up convincing me to buy it, the game I will not give my opinion since that is not what the publication is about, I will only say that if I spent hours enjoying it. When I made the sketch of this drawing I made some small changes, since I didn't have a complete range of colors, and I decided to change a silver reptile in the lower right part for a spider. Another thing I ended up changing was the butterfly, if my memory doesn't fail me in the original drawing there were two, I only placed one and I didn't copy any of them, I decided to place one of my own inspiration, I think it was not a good idea, but in the end the result was not as bad as I expected. If you notice some deficiencies is because I feel so young and never having studied art (beyond art education in high school) I didn't have much idea of how to apply the colors, I didn't even have a full range, I just used what I had at that time, even so, I loved it.
The second drawing was from the inside of the same magazine, the name of the game I do not remember, I only know that this time I was not satisfied with the result, both drawings were made freehand, practically I did not even use a cross of lines to maintain the proportion (beginner's mistake) but that was not what left me dissatisfied, but the final result of the woman holding the "dinosaur", the original was very bright and the face was much prettier, to me it was opaque and ugly. The sky was of a different color but having few colors I decided to change it, in both drawings I used a little bit of corrector pencil and white tempera to give the lights, I was not an expert in lights and shadows, I only imitated the drawing I was seeing.
Sharing these drawings with you is not recycling content, just a sample of my small personal gallery of works that I still keep more for nostalgia than for results, since many of them were the beginning of the artist I am today. If I could change anything, I only wish I had had a camera to recreate the step by step of each drawing, but at that time there were no smart phones and the cameras were roll film which your parents were not going to lend you for something like that, a photo was very valuable and it was better to save each one for family vacations.
Foto actual tomada por mi desde mi teléfono ZTE||Current photo taken by me from my ZTE phone
I say goodbye to you thanking you for having made this little trip to the past, which personally brings me many memories, this pair of drawings undertook the journey from Venezuela to Peru with me when I decided to emigrate, along with other works that I will soon present to you as well. Thank you.
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