Morning Steemians!
So, in my #IntroduceYourself post on Friday, I briefly touched on the fact that I draw. I work as a pet and portrait artist - drawing in the evenings and at weekends… and whenever I can fit a bit of scribbling in really! This isn’t my day-job, although I do hope it’ll end up like that one day!
I work mainly in graphic pencil, as this medium really is my first love, and something I gravitate towards above everything else.
How I Got Started
Like many of us, I loved art at school. It was the one lesson I’d always do more than I was required to do for, just because I loved creating so much. When I left school and went to University, I stopped making visual art, and instead focused in on Choreography as my main subject. 3 years of this and, as many of us creative students find, I was completely skint, and performance work simply didn’t bring in the funds required to survive. So I got a full time day job in the retail industry. I had a lot of fun and made a lot of friends, but my creative output dried up completely. It took another 9 years before one night in 2015, I decided to pick up a pencil, inspired by a photograph my other-half had taken at a horse-jumping event. With his permission, I used it as my first reference photograph… and I was off! Horses remain one of my favourite animals to draw to this day!
Taking Off
To my delight, as I posted the drawing I was making on social media, people started to ask me to draw their pets for them. And then them with their pets… and their children. And I loved every minute of it. Here’s a little time-lapse of a little boy wearing his St. David’s Day costume, commissioned by his mum in Wales. Had so much fun on this one:
Always Learning
Every single drawing I do, I learn something new- a new technique, a way to capture more detail. I also find, the more I draw, the more I see in the original references - it takes your eyes a while to zone-in on the important elements and the values of the piece that make the subject true to who the really are.
How-to posts?
So, here’s a question for my fellow artsy Steemians - would you be interested in some how-to posts here? I’d love to share the bits and bobs I learn as I go - and I’ve experimented with so many bits of equipment and different pencils and props over the past 3 years- I’d love to share this knowledge if there’s a desire here for that kind of content? Let me know what you think in the comments!
Thanks for stopping by. I’d love an upvote, follow and resteem if you enjoyed this post. If you draw, I’d love to see one of your pieces in the comments!
Have a fab Monday,
Eveningart x