So ( I just realised that I start a lot of my posts with this 🤓) it's been a while since I started on my digital art journey, and while I'm not where I expected to be when I started a few weeks ago and life and other responsibilities have gotten in the way of my creativity I did manage to make a few pieces in between which I thought to share today.
I've had to prepare and sit for an English language proficiency exam ( I wonder why this is still compulsory for several countries, even when the official language is the English language) growing up speaking English doesn't seem to make a difference either. I was anxious cos I hadn't written an exam in 5 years. While personally, my preferred grade is short 0.5 points the result is more than adequate for what I need it for (I'm just an overachiever 😄). So, the exam and the fact that I'm working on a big hyper-realistic pencil portrait left me with little practice time for digital art.
I did do extensive research on digital art and the scope left me anxious it's such a broad field, I don't even know where to start from. With pencil work, I knew right away I wanted to work on portraits and it was easy to go from there to choose the medium I wanted to use. But with digital art, while I'm mainly interested in landscapes and sceneries I also want to be able to draw human figures that don't look disproportionate or like blobs of color😞. Moving from black and white to color is exciting though, I get to experiment a lot and all those colors, it's like I've died and gone to color heaven.
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Here is my first ever landscape drawing, it looks so shoddy compared to what I've seen from other artists online 😅 but learning is a process too.
It took me a total of six hours give or take a few minutes to get this done and don't judge me, but I had to follow the steps on a Youtube video. I can't wait to get so good that I can run with my imagination.
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While this doesn't seem as impressive as the first one, I do think there are slight improvements in contrast to a similar work I did a few weeks ago.
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