My fav supplies to use are watercolors, watercolor pencils, microns and Bristol paper. I use the same supplies and paint and draw the same types of things all the time. I wanted to practice watercolors, pastels, markers, acrylic, etc as well. I used to love all of those things but I've gotten in a rut drawing/painting the same types of things with the same materials. I mentioned before filling this book with pastel, canvas, bristol, sketch, and tinted papers. It seemed like a good idea to use all the various papers and it did get me excited to draw again and working with different materials.
I'm not a professional artist. This is just a super fun hobby for me. Some of the drawings from when I started the book just flat out suck. Even some of the later drawings make me want to take another life drawing class (the last one was some 20 years ago). That's okay. I haven't practiced in a long while. I look forward to becoming better as I go.
Some figures using using the site Posemaniacs. A great place for figure references. These were my least favorite sketches.
Headless pixie Vidia and toothless. Also not great but good drawing practice. I liked being able to draw the toys from different angles.
More pixie toys. Poor wingless fairies.
I picked a bundle of lavender from a lavender farm this past May. Arranged a small still life with it to paint. Got bored halfway through and never finished it. I did use the same paint to paint these lavender people on the other side of the paper. That was more fun.
Some sketches of my son. 7 year olds can't sit still so this was a challenge. They're okay. And then some I sketched of my daughter. That was close to impossible to get her to stay in one place long enough. Good practice, I think, on doing a drawing quickly. Again, not great finished product, but had fun anyway.
That's about a third of the sketches in this book so far. The ugly beginnings. I will post more this evening when I have more time.
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