My project for course: Vibrant Portrait Drawing with Colored Pencils
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I absolutely loooved this course and became somewhat addicted to the final project - instead of just one drawing, I made at least one colourful portrait every day for a week. This way of colouring reminded me a lot of my youth. I loved to paint portraits with coloured pencils back then. It was nice to get out my old Caran d'Ache box of colours with 80 Prismalo Aquarelle pencils.
Thank you Gabriela for this fantastic course, the valuable tips and additional resources and the inspiration to fill my sketchbook with coloured pencils more often again. I still enjoy painting with them as they are very easy to erase - something I had to do quite often in the beginning.
Gabriela's courses somehow make me want to bring more structure to my approach. The first thing I did was organise my colour box into different colour palettes - a 'standard palette', a cool tone palette, a warm palette and a pastel palette.
For the first portrait, I followed Gabriela's steps and mainly used my "standard colour palette". For portrait number two, I used a lot of colours from the pastel palette and added some darker colours. The third portrait is a mixture of these two palettes.
Then I realised that I've only drawn women so far, so I looked for a male reference picture and played with the warm colour palette.
I gifted myself a scanner for Christmas so that I could finally document my process step-by-step, even though I usually paint in the evening in poor light.
When I thought my final project was finished, it crossed my mind that I still have a box of Luminance 6901 Portrait Assortment colours that I sometimes use to add colour touches over my watercolour paintings. I've never painted a portrait with this palette before, so I decided I should definitely give it a try. The colours felt very unfamiliar and I had to have a second attempt as I couldn't handle the soft texture of the pencils the first time, but I'm quite happy with the result and will definitely continue to experiment with this colours.
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Your paintings are absolutely stunning.
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@maria_dominikas thank you very much!
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PlusYour art is a celestial ballet, each brushstroke pirouetting with grace and purpose. Thank you for the enchanting performance on the canvas. As fellow artists, let's continue dancing with our brushes, choreographing stories that resonate in the hearts of those who behold them. 💃🎨
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@rodlovell Thank you so much for your lovely words. It's wonderful to be connected on this platform with such creative and supportive artists who inspire and encourage each other to keep exploring on our creative journey with joy, playfulness, vulnerability and courage.
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Wow!!! Just great
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Really great portraits. I'm thrilled 👏🏼
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Congratulations! the result is amazing and the process is very inspiring.
Thank you for sharing
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I'm taking the screenshot to have it as a summary guide. amazing drawing
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Congrats!! It's awesome!!
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You're so talented!
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Your art is amazing! You truly figured out how to use pencil colours to create amazing and expressive portraits, congrats.
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What beautiful illustrations Michele!
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@michele_marti Do you have any platform that you share your artworks?? i would love to see those.
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Stunning !
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Absolutely breathtaking work!
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@Charlie Thank you!
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Fantastic
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PlusWow, I'm speechless, this is absolutely beautiful :)
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PlusSpectacular, your illustration is amazing and beautiful ❤️
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