Day #63 - Screenshot of Zaheer

I am still reeling from the amazing show that is Legend of Korra, but I'll manage somehow. Zaheer without a doubt is one of my favourite villains from the show, it's just a shame that he couldn't be with his beloved P'Li. I really enjoyed the role he played in helping Korra go back into the spirit world. This drawing is quite a big deal to me because this is the first time that I have used my Faber castell pencils for doing artworks. I was really happy with the result and I had experimented with layering the colours before hand and I must say it turned out all right but I felt like I drew the nose too big and the eyes a little bit smaller. Always room for improvement right? Please if you have time to, could you critque on what you think I should do to better my work. Thank you!

Miriam 

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Day #62 - Goodbye is impossible for me! (Sayonara Dekinai!)

Hi all! Happy late new year! I am sorry that it has taken me forever to upload. I had an internship over Xmas and I was staying over my aunt's but there isn't enough space to spread all my art stuff and work. In the short, I am 30 sketches behind but I'm gonna do them, they just won't be daily (which is ironic). It reminded me of the quote 'It doesn't matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop'. And I don't intend to. At the very least, I will try to upload once a week from where I still am until I finish. Now onto the drawing!!!

I read Picolo's helpful article on how to draw for the 365 challenge and one of his helpful tips was to create original artworks and it inspired me to create the drawing above. Mamotte Shugogetten is one of my favourite animes but I wanted to create my own original approach; so I practiced drawing the screenshots above and then practiced what I was planning to draw, then I did the final stage. Exhausting, i know >.>. I love the relationship between Tasuke and Shao and just how adorable they are together. If you haven't already, please watch the show, it's definitely a treat. I've got a couple more to upload so stay tuned!

Miriam
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Day #61 - Diet Coke (Marc Jacobs Edition)

I'll admit, this isn't one of my best drawings and I didn't particularly enjoy drawing it either. I wasn't in the best of moods that day and my motivations levels were pretty low :/ Anyhow, the subject I picked to draw was a special of edition of Diet Coke by Marc Jacobs. The design of the bottle was pretty awesome and I've loved the simple illustration. I'll definitely attempt to do a redraw of this. These are all the drawings I have actually completed so far, so I'll probably upload the ones I've yet to do in fours until I'm up to date ^^. Til next time!

Miriam

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Day #60 - Statue of African Woman

I'm currently staying over at my cousin's and finding things to draw has been tough to come, obviously I can find references images to use but I wanna try and cut down much time I spend on the Internet, particularly Tumblr. It's literally like a lost destination for procrastinators. Anyhow, I looking around and I came around this interesting statue, Funnily enough, when I was drawing this my auntie stated that I should've gotten a more bigger sketchbook to fit the whole drawing in and she's was right. The quality of paper is just perfect but the shape of it, if you've seen is mostly square and that doesn't bode well for mainly larger objects I wanna draw, so as soon as I get back to uni next month, gonna buy me a big beautiful kraft paper sketchbook. Hopefully, after that I'll stop spending cause the amount of sketchbooks I have so far is too funny. Til next time!

Miriam 

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Day #59 - Goodbye (for now!)

This is the last in the mannequin series (for now). I've really enjoyed drawing the mannequin and I wanna try my hand at drawing him in different media (watercolour, oil paint?) Over the past few days, I thought it would good to see other's artwork to re motivate me again and  oh my gosh, I've got A LOT of practising to do to get at that level. The next week coming is African statues! Gotta love ancient artefacts.

Til next time,

Miriam

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Day #58 - Run!

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I am so sorry yet again guys, I actually completed this drawing on the actual day (6/12/14) but I went to a Christian Christmas event that same day and well, I was just too lazy to upload and then it carried on, like a domino effect and here I am now. The thing I've noticed as well, is the environment that I'm in effects how I work? I dunno if anyone else feels like this but if a room is too messy to work in, then it de-motivates me to work in it. Ever since I went back home, I haven't been able to work on the daily drawings, that and I'm currently doing my first internship which has been brilliant so far :D. So my sincere apologies, again, for the lack of posts. In the near future, I just upload what I have done rather than completing the rest of the drawings and then uploading.

Anyhow, this is day 58. After, I've used up the graded drawing pencils I'm using, I'll probably look for better quality from Winsor & Newton or other art suppliers. In the near future, I'm aiming to draw pencil on kraft paper like this . Apart from that, I have been continually in another sketchbook, just practising ideas I have or how I'm feeling currently. Again, I'm so sorry for the late updates and I hope you enjoy the drawing that I've done so far.

Miriam

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Day #57 - Down in the dumps

Have you had a bad day today? Did your internet mess you about? Did you stub your toe? Is your mood so far the equivalent of the drawing above? No worries. Just flip several tables, breath and relax. Jokes aside, if this day hasn't been your best, here's to an even better day tomorrow. In other good news, I have caught up with my drawings so back to actually doing  a drawing per day. Til next time! ^_^

Miriam 

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