Many beginning artists have a habit of drawing on the table when paper or canvas is parallel to the floor, and you look at it from above. With this approach, you see a distorted image (elongated), respectively, also draw distorted proportions. While you look at the picture from top to…
When people ask whether it is possible to draw a portrait from a photograph, or from a memory from my head, I always think that “why not”, if you are confident in your abilities and want to make a portrait from a photo, then why not decide it is this…
I have almost all the necessary colors in the Copic Sketch 72A set of markers, but if you want to put together the perfect palette, then you should buy a few more markers of white skin color (in my case), that is, light earthy shades. I studied swatch and drawings…
I decided to try abstract art, initially I thought to make a couple of strokes and add a few drops, but when I got into the black hole of my subconscious, it turned out that the chosen colors no longer gave the chance of work to be easy. Red, black,…
One of my early paintings, a hedgehog who lives in the forest, is made with oil on canvas (size 40×30 cm). To make this picture I used light brush strokes, the style is similar to pointillism, but the “dots” are larger. With great pleasure, I applied soft colors to each…
It turns out that copic markers can also be drawn using different techniques, and not just comic-illustrative ones. This time I decided to try making portraits using the pointillism technique (my favorite style in oil painting), and I got a very beautiful glow of the skin. I used about 6…
Is it possible to learn to draw decently without an art education? Isn’t it too late for me to start drawing at 30 (thirty!) Years old or even later? And where to go to study as an adult – to an art school or workshop, to an institute or to…
In 2016, I dared to start painting (I do not like to say “write”) oil. I took a few tubes of used oil paint, a pair of brushes, a cardboard box measuring 18×24 cm (gesso board, primed cardboard), a palette knife … and decided “be what happens.” I love flowers,…
Recently, I ordered my first COPICs on Ebay, and the courier called us yesterday, and in the evening this package already lay at home: At first I thought it was clothes or a tripod with aliexpress, but when I got this chest out of the bag, I immediately recognized the…
Today I recorded a full video with the test of all colors Copic Sketch 72A set, made a color for each color on a homemade palette. I decided not to download the finished palette from the Internet, but to draw my own. It seems to me that this is much…