Ten years ago today, I was living away from my family in another city and found myself with an abundance of free time. Doing my weekly supermarket shop, completely on impulse, I bought a notebook and pen, thinking it might be fun to do a quick drawing every day. I'd never done any serious drawing before, or had any real interest in art. I went home and in the evening drew my shoe. That's where it all began.

Magpie, chiffchaff, bee-eater and woodpecker! Some attempt at learning to draw with colored pencils and I'm really happy with how they turned out!

Love the off-white color and texture of the bamboo paper I used, though unfortunately it's a bit too "soft" and starts dissolving when pressing too hard with the pencils. Still wasn't able to find a paper with that color that works better for pencils :')

Edit: Thanks so much for all the love on these <3 Next step is to learn to draw them from real life and not just photos!

Oil pastel on paper.

And that's a wrap! I plan to do a retrospective, which i can hopefully post in a few days.

Between a rock and a hard place

This scene has been bouncing around my brain for a second. White gel pen on black paper.
@artshare #penandink #blackandwhite

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47620326

In this hot weather, Integrelle is chilling in her house with air conditioning. Very relaxed, she looks.

I also do timelapses now!

• PeerTube: https://peertube.wtf/w/47Bw9E7uF89A7Zh8gCwkbL
• YouTube: https://youtu.be/8gNq-v_7IT4

Animated version:

I wasn't fully successful but I tried to capture that citrus glow you see when light shines through it right. I'll post the photo too, I love how the photo of my setup came out and it's my phone backgrounds now

Ink and gouache on paper.

I finished this up today. Super fun project. I didn't start with a line drawing. I started with charcoal powder and a brush to get the massing in. Then I had to dump off all the powder and spend 15 minutes erasing, lol. Then moved to vine charcoal to start the shapes. And used charcoal pencils to finish up. The background is pastels - he just seemed too cheerful to stay all black and white. I was originally going to do a translucent blue but my gut said yellow and wow were these pastels vibrant.

A recent painting. I tried broken color around the moonlight, going for an ethereal feeling.

Mixed Media on paper.

Edit: Lemmy is a lot more helpful and supportive than Reddit could ever be. Thank you all for the advice. I really can use it.

Gouache on paper.

Made this a few years ago.

A4, Micron 10. Felt bad about not drawing much lately. Gave myself 45 minutes to get something done.

Not my best likeness but I love this movie. I need to watch it again soon. Do you have a favorite quote to share?

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mmx67xnmm22z

A set of aluminium earrings, cut by hand from a plate.

This is a design that I'd like to revisit; maybe by making the letters more bulky and visible. I'm not sure it's a design that appeals to a lot of people though, for some reason.

Gouache and watercolor on paper.

Oil pastel on paper.