Artist

I thought for a while what to write about. Not because I didn't know what to say but because I had too much to say. There's too many things I love and only so little words to describe how they make me feel. Sometimes I feel like I'm explaining what colors look like to someone who's been blind since birth. You know what I mean? Well some of you surely do. Anyways today's blog is in a way a request. I will anwser a couple of questions I got and never got around to respond. Sorry. You guys were wondering about my art. I got my talent from my father. His side of the family is the artistic one, painters, musicians, dancers, actors. You name it, there's at least one in the family. That's why I'm good at almost all of those things. I never got any professional ''training'' to be fair. I went to an art school as a kid but it wasn't a school as you'd imagine, we weren't learning we were just sitting around drawing, which explains why I got bored with it pretty quickly. I can sit around and draw at home, why pay an expensive tuition? I wanted to learn, I wanted to be challenged and I didn't get that there. All my talents are products of my own hard work. I taught myself by reading books, studying about artists, watching ''how to'' videos and practice of course. It wasn't as hard for me as it might be for other people since I was blessed with the talent in the first place, but what I'm trying to say is, everything is possible if you want it and work hard for it. I learned that by now. Dreams do come true you just have to be willing to work for them. I love drawing portraits most, all the artists I know hate that. They would draw anything, animals, cars, gardens, still life, anything to avoid drawing a face and I'm excatly the opposite. I love to draw a portrait, I love drawing eyes, I love drawing hair, the longer the better...I don't know why but for some reason I was never any good at drawing nature or architecture, I can draw a car, a bike, or maybe even a dog but nature, a city skyline, a horse maybe? Don't get me started on that one. Which by the way is a great challenge for me. Get better at drawing other things. Like a Japanese garden, they're my favorite by the way. Or maybe a pond with koi fish inside. Or a cat sitting out in the field with some moonlight or a wild sunrise behind. Colors are also not my best friend. I work best with graphite pencils B to 6B those make me happiest, I haven't grasped the whole concept of shading in color. I use three brands Koh I Noor, Faber Castell and Derwent. They're my favorites and work the best. Of course most of Derwent stuff are a little pricey but well worth the money. I always start a portrait with a quick sketch, just a ton of lines trying to capture the shape of the face, distance between eyes and nose, lips...then I draw the eyes, been trying to actually always draw the left side first because I'm right handed and if I draw the right side of the drawing first I always manage to smear the drawing somehow. After the eyes I draw out the nose and lips and face outline then shade it. I always leave the hair for the last specially if the hair is falling on the face, it's impossible shading between hair strands, specially if you draw in color, you just end up smearing the lines. Nothing more frustrating then ruining a perfectly good drawing with smeared lines. So! In that spirit enjoy my last drawing I did in color, one of the very few, as I said I don't like working in color but this particular picture was so beautiful it would be a crime to make it black and white. The lovely Chris Hemsworth in case you don't know, enjoy!