Hello hive! I am sharing this post as a medium to showcase my own little gallery and to also celebrate my evolution and progress level over the years from graphite pencils to biro to charcoal and even a funny transition from paper to wall.
I found out that drawing requires patience and endurance and a super high level of critical thinking for so many important reasons like getting exact proportions shades, lines and even strokes sometimes you need to hear the pencil how hard or soft it strikes the paper to create a pattern. I chose the nighttime as my perfect timezone because I wanted to be a beast of the field! At night it’s really calm and lonely without having anyone to bother with daily chores or family responsibilities or complaining for sitting on a drawing for over 13 hours each day.
Now this brings me to the graphite phase where I learnt so much skills and even proportions using both grid and free hand to strike out resemblance. I used from hb to the 8b and also the A series for a super lighter shade needed for highlighting and feinter strokes.
Like the woman’s face in the last row, Thats a perfect example of my graphite era but I grew tired because I couldn’t go darker and deeper with the color black.
CHARCOAL EXPERIMENTS
The whole journey got sweeter at this stage where I finally found purpose and a path. At this phase I wanted to do more and achieve more realism so I came across charcoal, my sister had to order a Staedtler charcoal set from Germany for about 21£ at the time. The game changed it was now more technical and challenging because I started dealing with bigger sizes harder proportions and more detailing. Charcoal is definitely harder because it is hard to control, luckily I got other materials like kneadable eraser and white pen to increase detailing and kill some charcoal effect.
So far i still see it as my best phase because it made me a hyper realist.
Biro phase
This was another amazing discovery and a more recent moment of my art life tho I have been using it even before I started hyper realism I only got better with it when I came back to biro.
Ballpoint pen could be very difficult to use because it’s so raw and it doesn’t encourage eraser whatever line and stroke you make stays there forever you only have to blend it into the artwork.
Biro also taught me a lot of patience even more than charcoal and graphite because there’s no room for mistakes. So every stroke should be the perfect stroke.
OLD BIRO WORKS:
Most of them were abstract and tried working on a white wall.
NEWER BIRO WORKS:
Asides that I also tried being extra creative at some point by using mixed medium both biro and charcoal or biro and graphite even color pencils too.
Art is a conversation, and this post is my way of inviting you all into min e and thank you for walking through my gallery.
Thanks for reading
Wealth Grammy.