Little Kiana (3)

I finished the portrait of Kiana, just like I planned by the end of the week. In case you didnt know, if you click on the picture, you can see a much bigger version with more detail and it actually looks alot better than the small one.

Now I am off to another portrait, since I made many promises to people for making their portraits (maybe I shouldnt do that - then again if I promise something I at least finish what I started :))

Little Kiana (2)

Though yesterday I had alot of other things to do, I couldnt resist to continue a little on the portrait of Kiana. I think I actually spend four more hours. Ohh, how I love to draw. Too stupid all these administration tasks in life eat my precious time. Time which I cannot spend on my passion. So, here's the update so far.

Little Kiana

I promised Stephanie to make a portrait of her little babygirl .I really love to draw children. Babies are something different, because they are so fragile and to put that fragility on paper is something hard to do. But I will give it a try and do my utmost.

I will show you how I started. Again it’s not yet finished, but I just want to show how I work and maybe fellow artists who pass by will critique or might learn (though I prefer the latter, the first would be more usefull for me personaly). I will definitely finish this portrait, since I promised it and to me promises are sacred. I intend to finish it by the end of the week and hopefully I will succeed in it.

First you have the reference picture of little Kiana. I just loved the eyes and the way they smiled to me in the picture.

And this is how far I am for the moment (after 4 hours of dedicated work – I know I know I am slow) Weekends are always so difficult to draw when a young toddler constantly wants to play with you and your husband is also craving for attention. Anyway I think starting the day after tomorrow I will definitely get in full speed to finish the portrait. Tomorrow some boring tasks are waiting for me to be finished so I cant continue then :(

One finished, Three to go...

Well, I finished the one on which I didnt have so much more work. Mainly I just added the background on this one and putted more detail into the cabin of the boat. I thought the reflections in the water were gonna be really hard, but I tried some white wax crayon to give it a watery look and I find it worked out well. Now that I see it on my computer, maybe the grass on the right side needs to be darkened a little.... nah I am gonna leave it like this before I mess it up. I will try to finish the belly dancer for tomorow... or I might start something new :)

defragmenting

I have been busy with so many things at a time I actually dont get anything finished. My fathers birthday was yesterday and the painting didnt get finished. So I bought a present instead. Now probably it will lay there for next year or maybe hopefully for fathersday. I sure could use some more discipline. Does anybody have some advise on how to train this.
For the moment I started at about five drawings and I only finished one which I dont really like. The first is a really tiny portrait of a cat which would take me little less then an hour to complete. Here is the wip (work in progress).

The next one is a small portrait of me and my son, which still needs alot of color layers. I actually only have the sketch for the moment. It was a picture I really liked and I have been wanting to draw it for a long time.

I am always in admiration for people who know how to draw these beautiful fantasy women. It is one of my aims to be ablte to do this also and this just from my imagination. Since I dont have yet a good understanding of the proportions of the human body, I drew this one from a picture, but it is also still waiting to be finished.

I also have something not living. My first try at something like a landscape in colored pencil. For the moment I am rather happy with, but it is still not finished. I am doing this one for the March colored pencil challenge on www.wetcanvas.com

Then the last one, which did get finished but actually isnt really good. Maybe I should do a few more layers on it to give it a more finished look. On the other hand I have so many other things to finish and so many more to start :) This one is a selfportrait. I wanted to try a new method. So I drew the sketch with a light gray, then added darker parts with a darker grey and then added color. The colors could have been a litlle more nuanced, but like I said my biggest flaw ever is I like to start new things so sometimes things have to go fast.

Well, alot to look at and for me alot to finish. So I think I might as well start now :) Hopefully in my next post I will have at least one update from one of these drawings ;)

If you check on my website, you can see that now and then I do finish something. So, I am not yet completely hopeless. If I would get some commissioning work, I am sure I would be much more disciplined about it. Now all of the things I make are for fun and pleasure, so there isnt any haste involved.

Work in progress

For the moment I am really trying to figure out how I can live with my art. It seems I still have a long way to go, but it is something I really want. I sometimes wish I could just draw and everything else would follow. I guess it doesnt work that way. Probably I should go out and find customers, but pushing myself to other people is something I hate to do.
Luckily I have a husband who really believes in me, maybe he is a litlle overestimating my artistic capacities. On the other hand it is a good compensation of me underestimating myself.
For the moment I am busy making a portrait in colored pencil for my father. His birthday is soon to come. I hope I make it in time. It is drawn from a photograph of him and my son. For the first time I tried a full developed background. I am really happy with the back ground I have already drawn. Now lets hope the faces will be ok also (I do have more experience with it, so it should be ok)
Here is a picture of my progress so far. The picture is not so clear, but when it is finished I wil definitely post a better one.