in a flash, it is done.
i've promised myself this for a while now, and im really happy that i did get down to doing. and it looks great! for someone who hasnt touched the brush since she quit om in sec one, it turned out a lot better than i could expect.
im proud (:
and so, i present to you all, my first painting in 3 years: The Tree (if it isnt already obvious enough)
personally, i think its quite the spiritually cleansing. haha sounds a bit weird. but painting to me is like meditating. its something thats precious and really should be done more often. when you paint, you focus, or at least i do, on nothing but the picture before you. you have absolute control on things. you can choose to make the painting brighter, with dabs of yellow, or a little more sober, with more blue. nothing else matters except what you want. yeah i do mostly work with another painting, meaning im a copier, i copy the other persons painting, but its not the same. although you do have a goal of making your painting similar to the one before you, the original piece is just a reference. as ive learnt, its impossible to make the two absolutely identical and its stupid. you have less fun that way (: fundamentally, whatever comes out is yours and yours only. so who cares if someone comes up to me and says hey your tree is so not a tree, its more like green candy floss on a stick. so be it!
onto my next piece! this ones done in my usual pencil. xD i enjoy pencil work as well and i usually do it more for nothing but lazy reasons. painting is a messy job xD so usually i work with pencil, but its still doesn't accomplish what painting does. for one, its less pretty cos there is no colour, and so its also more challenging to express what you really want. and also because there is less colour, there is less fun xD. one of the great things i love about painting is the mixing of the colours. its... i dunno. strangely calming when you mix two colours and come up with a new one. like when you have yellow, and you add green, with a tinge of blue and a dab of white, you come up with another beautiful colour! i really dont think that theres any "unpretty" colour, so to speak, unless if you mix too many dark colours together and end of with this brown. black mess.
okok moving on.
The New Age Playboy
haha this one was done during the myas yeah. i have this horrid habit of wanting to draw during the myas. its totally doesnt help. especially since i cannot stand not drawing when i want to. whenever i get inspired i need to get down to doing it asap, or else it gets to me like a 百年老虫. ahahaha. yeah.
i digress again.
the New Age Playboy is one of those pieces which are done purely for fun. means no inspiration no nothing, just sit down and churn out strange shapes and then try to make something out of it xD. its very ufn to do things like that. yeah. in apcg terms this would be called incidental. lols.
Escaped
{10:14 am}
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