365 Artwork Challenge: Take Me to The Beach!! – A Practice Using Watercolor Pencil

Yes..!! Take me to the beach!!! It’s been too long since the last time I got to go to the beach… I need a vacation that’s for sure..! haha.. So this Artwork #19 is something that reminds me of beaches; a sea shell!. Since I was a kid I loooveee collecting sea shell and then making it into photo frame or put it in a jar for a decoration. This drawing of a sea shell is also a great practice for me using watercolor pencils.

As you can see from my previous posts that I have made several Gothic-style-drawing and a lot of monochrome-drawings. This time I feel colorful and also I would like to start exploring my Derwent Watercolor Pencils that I purchased recently.

This drawing is made by following the instruction of a tutorial from Shoo Rayner Drawing Channel on Youtube. This guy is totally awesome, you guys should check and subscribe to his channel.

Sea Shell using Derwent Watercolor Pencils on Sketchbook Paper

I made this sea shell step-by-step following the tutorial, so this is my drawing’s progress:

365 Artwork Challenge: A New HOPE for My Country Indonesia

This post is dedicated to my beloved country Indonesia. Today we celebrate another historical moment: The inauguration of our new elected President, Mr. Joko Widodo. Time magazine called him “A New Hope” and I think it suits him perfectly. It’s the first time in my life that I felt proud and hopeful for my country’s president election’s result.

365 Artwork Challenge: “Gargoyle”- My Last Artwork from The Beginner Watercolor Workshop

This the last artwork that I made in the Beginner Watercolor Workshop last week. I just got the chance to post this because I just got back from a trip to my hometown in Pekanbaru (I will post something related to my hometown later). Anyway, for my last artwork in this workshop, I decided to draw and paint a gargoyle. I got excited with the Halloween-themed/Gothic-style-drawing that I thought a Gargoyle will make a great final piece of art for this workshop. It’s challenging because there are so much color tone that I have to differentiate but at the same time Gargoyle is pretty cool to draw;)

Here’s my first try on drawing the gargoyle. I can’t finish the drawing in one session because the details are so complicated:

365 Artwork Challenge: My First Photorealism Animal Painting

This is my first try to make a photorealism painting of a dog. This subject is due to a following tutorial that I saw on the internet. It’s a “Learn hot to draw and paint” by Thaneeya McArdlel. You can find her site here. Her tutorial is so detailed and the step-by-step guide is easy to follow. I really recommend her site to everyone who is a beginner in painting like me.

This artwork #14 is a painting of a dog using watercolor, colored pencils, and watercolor pencils. So it’s a mixed media artwork. The method to draw a portrait or photo is to use a tracing technique. First of all print your photo in a piece of paper (you can see the detailed instruction on the website that I provided above):

365 Artwork Challenge: Another Lily..!!

So, as I said before I will attempt to draw another lily for my artwork #8. This time I try to draw one big lily instead of a whole bunch of them like the last post. This is the exact drawing from a picture I saw in the Martha Stewart Living Indonesia magazine  (November 2013 issue). *sorry for the wrinkly paper;)

The Beautiful Yellow Lily

This is the picture in the magazine:

The Lily in the Martha Stewart Living Indonesia Magazine

Lily in the Drawings and in the Magazine

I hope I do it justice because I think Lily is one of the most beautiful flower (well, beside rose of course). The watercolor is from Reeves and I used a calligraphy pen and Sumi ink for the “Happy Day!” words.

Have an awesome day guys!

365 Artwork Challenge: Hello October!

Another skipped post 😉 I will make it up by posting a double post today and it’s actually because I’m not really satisfied with this post. As you can see, this is the first day of October and I would like to say goodbye to all the beautiful flowers and welcoming autumn. Although in Indonesia it doesn’t really make any different. I guess I can say we welcome the rainy season today;)