I made more progress on my drawing today. I was able to finish it early enough in the day where I was able to use natural sunlight to help take a better photograph. However, the photo still doesn’t look quite as it does in real life. I’m sure when Spring is here, it’ll get easier to take decent photos.

I’m going to leave it at that as I’ve said all there is to say about what I’ve been working on. I’m going to say that I expect to be finished with this piece in two more days. Tomorrow, I have company coming by, and I don’t expect to get too much drawing time in. Probably enough to finish the tendrils there and maybe the trunk of the tree. As always, we’ll just have to see how it goes.

Hope everyone’s having a fantastic Saturday!

For today’s work I added more orange to the tendrils at the top, as well as starting on the green. Then I finished all the diagonal space/night sections, which includes the coloring of the moon near the center. I still want to add a few colored stars as I find, in space/night photos, you usually notice a couple colored stars/lights in the sky.

So, all I have left to do is finish the rest of the tendrils, which should take a couple more days. And then get started on the other scene in the middle. It will end up being more than just the tree. I plan on having some blue sky, clouds, perhaps some sunlight coming from the top right. Hopefully it all meshes well enough. I’m a little worried that it won’t, and I can’t exactly put my finger on why. I just hope the tree scene doesn’t look too… cartoony.

Other than that, I really don’t have much else to talk about today. My hockey team is losing (big time. Like… record breaking big time) and today was kind of a boring day. Nothing really going on that’s standing out to me as important enough to talk about.

It’s Friday though! I hope everyone is having a fantastic day.

I think a pretty neat idea would be to create a template, similar to the above image, to use in Photoshop. All the basic lines in this image, for example, would be the borders I would use for a series of paintings. I think it would be neat to start with free-hand drawing the border (in this case it’s the colorful tendrils) and the diagonal slices would separate opposing paintings.

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This photograph was taken directly under natural light. If you look outside my sliding door, all you see is snow. I was having a hard time trying to find good lighting to actually be able to take a decent photograph. So the picture ended up with a bit of a cool blue tone to it.

I didn’t spend too much time today working on this drawing. For tomorrow I’ll have to really figure out where I’m going next with this. Or perhaps I’ll get back to it later on tonight. No matter what I ultimately decide to do with this drawing, I should have something more interesting to post tomorrow. I’m noticing that nobody is really talking about my artwork lately, and I’m getting hardly any views, so I’m kind of going to be stubbornly confident in this particular piece of artwork and continue working hard on it until I end up with something awesome. That’s just how I work sometimes.

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See, I knew this was going to turn out looking pretty cool. There’s one problem though; the blue colored pencil I was using just would not sharpen correctly. It continued to crack and break until there was virtually nothing left. I wasn’t even half way finished yet! So, I’m a little bit stuck on what I should do. However, this is an abstract piece and I’m just going to continue on anyways. Maybe I’ll just change the colors up for the rest. Or perhaps go with lots of red.

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When I started this abstract design the other day, I was in the mindset of trying to create, visually, the feeling of an infinite number of creepy tendrils reaching for you from all directions. Claustrophobia, as well. So far, I think a bit of those feelings attached to it. Honestly, the “tendrils” idea kind of came from a strange thought. Imagine you knew that they were arms and hands, attached to angry people, reaching for you. Trying to grab you and pull you god knows where. But you close your eyes and so what you feel tugging at your clothes and limbs suddenly feels like it could be anything. Anything “tendril” like. It’s a strange thought, and I don’t often go into what my thought process really is when I start my drawings, but I thought I would share that for once.

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