New Art Adventures: Digital Designs and Pencil Sketches Update

A lot has happened since I last posted here. I wanted to share a few updates with you ☺️

New addition to my drawing tools

I got a new iPad and Apple Pencil for my digital drawing. As I mentioned in my post a few months ago, I am doing a little of surface pattern design and this new addition has been of great help for me in my digital drawing journey.

Here are some of my latest designs

Cosmos floral design

Sunshine blossoms- Floral pattern

Feel the warmth-surface pattern

Feel the warmth: I made this design for the Apricity design challenge by Spoonflower, an on-demand, digital printing company that prints custom fabric, wallpaper, and home decor.

15 days drawing challenge

I am taking on a challenge to dedicate at least 15 minutes daily to drawing practice on paper, till the end of November. It has been going great, and I am enjoying this. I realized that it is not that hard to make 15 minutes daily for something interesting ☺️. Here are some of the sketches I did for the challenge.

Christmas tree, snow flake and ornament

Rein deer

Aster wildflowers

Duck 🦆

Okay… that is all for today.

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Graphite pencil drawings

No taping down the papers, minimum art supplies, no water need, basically it requires less preparation and less space. I like to draw with graphite pencils on a sketchbook these days.

Watermelon slices

Watermelon slices – sketch in graphite pencil

Pencil drawing of watermelon slices

Toucan

There is a Twitter account named animalalphabets where they give an animal name every week to create your art. Every Monday we have to post our creation by tagging them and they would retweet it.

I got to see some nice artwork here 🙂. So a couple of weeks ago I thought why not participate in this. The alphabet for the week was T and the animal they choose was the toucan bird.

Here is my drawing of a toucan bird.

Drawing of a Toucan bird in graphite pencil

It was a little hard to get the proportion right for the beak. I think I managed to get that almost right!

Toucan closeup

I have been watching a TV show for the past two weeks and it has been taking all my time and sleep. But I still did some drawings 🙂

Here is a sneak peek into my next drawing. I have not decided if it’s going to be in color or graphite yet.

Honeybee 🐝 on flowers – pencil sketch

What do you think of these drawings? Which is your favorite?

Did you like these drawings? Give it a share. You might also like my other graphite drawings

Drawing strawberry with graphite pencil – time-lapse video

Time-lapse video of strawberry graphite drawing is up on my YouTube channel  ArtbyGanga. Hope you like it 🙂

 

 

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Drawing EYE with Graphite Pencil – Video

‘Drawing EYE with Graphite Pencil’ – Time-lapse video is up on my youtube channel.

 

The mobile camera was set to auto focus. So whenever my hand came close to camera, it focused on hand instead of the drawing.

Lesson learned – Always manually set the camera to fix the focus on drawing 🙂 

Calf – graphite drawing

Added some more details to the calf from final day of my art challenge. 🐮

Squirrel – graphite drawing 🐿

Completed adding details to the squirrel from my daily art challenge. 🐿

Adding fur is a slow and repetitive process. It needs a lot of patience to observe the direction of the fur and recreate it.

Here are some intermediate stage pics.

Reference photo is from pixabay .

I think he looks cute 😍. Let me know your thoughts with comments 😊