tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75892654547402055422024-03-05T10:57:07.428-08:00Postcards made from Ink and CoffeeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03706956773850844110noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589265454740205542.post-64214675317205877392016-06-27T18:58:00.000-07:002016-06-27T19:05:04.621-07:005:54 in the morning. Part IIt's 5:54 AM, on the cusp of morning. The other half is at work, and I, at a Starbucks. As a millenial, of course I have just enough to have earned a reward for a free drink, 3 shot Latte Machiatto. The car is in need of repair, I have learned, mid-twenties, to finally learn of car pieces, ordering the part needed online. With the wheel hub in box on my passenger seat, I walk, with sketchbook and pens in hand, to the green mermaid inlaid cafe.<br />
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The air is sourly sweetened by the ocean air. Cool and crisp, the sky seems to float lightly and brightly, almost as if outlined with polish or a glitter gelly roll pen.<br />
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It's perfect. With my hair swirled and piled high on my head, nails just painted by myself the day before, I sit and draw.<br />
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Today's art piece is the red wolf. Terribly endangered in the world we
live in today, strong conservation efforts have been put into place to
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the special breeding program there, and see the vast area of America in
where they used to live, to the now mere finger print smudge of a size
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I have sketched out the Red Wolf portrait, with the help of reference photos and multiple tries at getting the eyes balanced.<br />
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Once everything is balanced, it's time to fill in the fur. I have already done a couple of therapy-fur rounds, and am now completing the first layer of black fur at the cafe. <br />
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The most enjoyable, yet challenging, part about the fur is following the natural direction of the flow. I am not going to lie, I have to use a reference picture. If I don't, I lose the balance and sense of where it goes. </div>
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Most of the time though, after drawing a few wolf faces, the light colored fur falls in the ear, eyes, nose and cheek area. Because I'm doing more of the body, the insides of the legs are usually more white as well, with the undercoat peeking through on the shoulder and side area.<br />
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Ok kids! That's all for this blog post. If I type or post any more pictures, it'll surely be a novel to read indeed. (And I'm also exhausted.) So I'm going to break this up into two parts-Line art, then Coloring. </div>
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So keep your eyes out for how I color this baby. I'll give you a teaser; Watercolor Pencils :D</div>
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Thank you all for reading and being a part of my art family! I'd love to hear what you think, or if you have any feed back or comments or love, feel free and post below! </div>
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And as always, you can see my most up to date art posts on Instagram at @tropicalbasenji. </div>
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Hope you all have a beautiful week~</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03706956773850844110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589265454740205542.post-31533581482157515142015-03-27T15:57:00.001-07:002015-03-27T16:01:56.464-07:00Smokey Wolf and Cups of Honey Milk Coffee<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hello Everyone!</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>How are you all doing?</b> Busy with life, but still passionate and positive I hope? :]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Although it doesn't seem like it</b> through my blog, I've been very busy in the art world, and it's great!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'm so in love with making art postcards, and since my latest post, playing with new media!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>I've found </b>I love working with anything from sharpie to white-out, to watercolor pencils to copic color pens, gelly pens and even highlighters! Depending on the mood of the picture, what it's portraying and what should be colored draws me to the certain media I use for each picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>On that note, </b>let's get started with this step-by-step post!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now, what's a smokey wolf without any smoke? Let's add details, yay!</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <b>Now that the face is finished</b>, time to move even more upward onto the mane and back. Go with the furry flow!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <b>Before I erase all of the pencil marks, </b>I want to make sure I have slight markings of where I want the smoke to be. So with this grey felt tip pen, I traced over the smoke lines. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here I have Prisma Color French Grey 30%, Cool Grey 30% , Faber-Castell watercolor pencils (not shown oops!) and the watercolor brushes I always use. (I really should use a different array of sizes more often haha)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">First, the smoke is shaded with the Prisma Color pens for a base color of the smoke. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can also check out some more postcards that I've recently made at my etsy shop, www.etsy.com/shop/tropicalbasenji as usual! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This was a little bit more challenging however. You see, I am not skilled in the arts of exact potraits or real people. People I make up in my head or reference for my ideas in pictures, sure. But people I know.. somehow, my mind can't translate well the personality and glow of people I know into my hand. It's either realistic and dull, or looks nothing like the subject, but has a glow to it. Ha! You can see below which one it turned out to be!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As you can guess,</span> I was asked to do a potrait, and I was very excited about it, but at the same time, nervous! I don't want a chance to ruin her beautiful face!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I do say though, it was wonderful practice and it came out ALOT better than I expected! I think it's because I put my all into it and didn't give up. :]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of course, I forgot to take a picture of it FRESH, but at least I got one in comparison and ended up getting it all down and filled in a background as well! Yay!</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5HhGUy4RKJNeeoRyT84vplgt72zi-VrWqj7kPMDzMvhr1mlJlXzwjWGKCkia6keVUCASbVCqTky9Df8gO8RBAXiDXUMwFplkijDSkAZFe1xnWeGmOCBVDtqiRitLz6aytY3PQX6gGkzg/s640/blogger-image-1127336214.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5HhGUy4RKJNeeoRyT84vplgt72zi-VrWqj7kPMDzMvhr1mlJlXzwjWGKCkia6keVUCASbVCqTky9Df8gO8RBAXiDXUMwFplkijDSkAZFe1xnWeGmOCBVDtqiRitLz6aytY3PQX6gGkzg/s640/blogger-image-1127336214.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> One of my favorite parts of drawing, making those loose and wiggly lines more confident and permanent! I start with my favorite parts, and also what I worry I will mess up later with less energy. For example, the eyes, lips, face outline and body. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ok.. So I know I said base color, and this may not look like it, but with so many flower and background colors, I just did the base first layer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> First, it's important to get your idea out on paper... or in this case, a postcard. Believe me, I erased and redrew many lines before I had even these shaky lines in. The proportions and placement of where his body would lie in the white and yellow </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now it's time to start to fill in those dots! I usually start with the eyes (my favorite) or the nose (my other favorite) and branch out from there. I used to go how the area would guide me, but now, I just go where my hands and pen guide me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Yes, more and more dots! The most important part about these postcards, I have found, is the spacial design. If the dots are filled in just right, and just like the real thing, people should be able to tell where it is and what space it fills without outlines or guiding lines. So I still keep the pencil outline at this point to make sure the dots don't go anywhere beyond the barrier. Just keep going!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />So after I fill in a couple more strands of white-out, darken some spots here and there, and make sure everything is in place, I then know it's done and complete! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And there it is! It's a shortened version, but the general version. It's normally how I did the rest of the wonderful shades. It just takes persistence and good music, then the rest will take you there. :]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">At this point, I wasn't as nervous about my color choice, because well, most of it was colored already! All I had to do was maintain a nice texture, shade, and keep within the lines all throughout. Now to decide if I should color his body or not...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Step 8; Completion!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Well, would you look at that. I decided to color in his body after all! I wasn't as pleased with how I got his body done, as the texture of this postcard is made for watercolor, the way the marker caught the paper wasn't ideal to me, but hey, at least it worked out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ta-da and it's finished! And in case you were wondering, this postcard too 3 Caramel Coffees and 2 days. Now you can check him out on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/186602829/cathedral-window-flower-boy-hand-drawn?ref=shop_home_active_1" target="_blank">Etsy</a>! Thank you so much for reading and enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Let’s just say, like everyone else, I found that it’s nearly
impossible to find any of those, perfectly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">However, I found a new life calling I think.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Making postcards!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">As you know</span></b>, I love to draw and have been doing it for
years. However, lately in life, with not much time on my hands and room for
extra paper and books, I have had no motivation to draw if it only becomes
another extra page in my memory box and closet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Then I found the wonderful creation that is called the blank
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And also the wonderful website called Etsy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I had made an Etsy account a couple years ago, hoping the
inspiration I found there with other’s amazing handmade goods and creativity
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Alas. I made some jewelry pendants and crochet scarves,
thinking those were my signature goods, but had no passion in it and only made
it in hopes of someone finding it attractive enough that they would buy themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So I closed down my Etsy account and went back into an art
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to a couple of friend’s success and beautiful hand made goods, I found the
hidden Etsy archive of handmade cards, postcards, stationary, stamps, post
notes, everything!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I was enthralled! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I had realized I was in the wrong section for me in Etsy originally.
It’s a world of human creativity all over the world and in every subject of
craft! Some I’ve never seen before!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Thus, long story short, the varied<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>collection of handmade postcards I have been making began to
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And the best part about it is, I’m not doing it for anyone
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I’m just so happy I can finally make productive art that can
be made into something, like a letter, souvinier or transportable wall piece. I
guess I’m just happy to be able to share my art with
everyone. I finally found a way to share more than just online networking on
art sites, but actually putting it in peoples hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> In addition to posting them for sale on Etsy, I’ll be
posting a blog post per postcard, showing my thought process and art process
for every card as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sadly, for the earlier postcards, I only have a picture of
the completed product and well, at least I can post them here. And you can also find them on my Etsy account <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/TropicalBASENJi" target="_blank">here</a>!</span></div>
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postcards, but see their process from beginning to end! </span></div>
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hell, if you like my art a lot, I’d love to send some for free! Especially if
its for a friend, family or cause. Being able to put my heart into my art is
one of the largest things I’m grateful for and blessed with. </span></span><br />
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