By: Staci Srebro I feel like an important part to drawing is to make your own characters. It’s nice to draw inspiration from movies or cartoons you like, but to have your own characters is a different creative experience. You have free reign to do whatever you want with your own characters. This is a drawing I did about a year ago for my own … Continue reading Original Characters
By: Staci Srebro In a previous post I made, I began the process of making my own book full of illustrations. Well, this week I finished my book! This is my completed accordion book. As you can see, this type of book can stand up on its own, and is made up of multiple folded sections. Accordion books can be made up of any content. … Continue reading Illustration Book
By: Staci Srebro This week, I redrew an old drawing I posted on this blog here. Sometimes I like redrawing old art because it’s fun to see how much your art can improve even over a few months or so. I began this drawing in a similar way as the Totoro drawing I did using Blick Markers. I started by sketching out the image very lightly in … Continue reading Redrawing Older Art
By: Staci Srebro This week, I’m showing a preview of a book I am making called an accordion book. The content inside of it will be all hand drawn cat characters I made, and eventually they will all be shaded with colored pencil. An accordion book is named after an accordion because the book folds into itself flat but can be opened up in one … Continue reading Book Drawings
By: Staci Srebro This week, I will be showing another animal drawing for my animal series. I’m going to do a series of at least a dozen animals, if not more, but this will be the final drawing of my animal series I will post on this blog. I always start with a pencil drawing, and go back over it with sharpie to make the … Continue reading Animal Series: Cat
By: Staci Srebro This week, I decided to draw my own monster girl based off of a Venus fly trap. My artwork typically seems to fall back on a mixture of animals and nature or creepy monster themes. I used this as a learning opportunity to explore using my Blick markers again. The best way to become skilled in basically anything is to practice. … Continue reading Venus Fly Trap
By: Staci Srebro This week, I’m taking a break from drawings for my future exhibition work. I love the subject matter I’m working on, but sometimes you just need to step back from the pressure of making art that will be critiqued much more heavily. I feel like some people at times feel like art is just always for fun, relaxation, or an outlet for … Continue reading Trixie Mattel Prismacolor Drawing
By: Staci Srebro Over the next few weeks, I will continue my animal series. This week, I drew an owl with three eyes and two sets of wings. To start, I drew this image with pencil. After working the image in pencil to my liking, I inked it in black marker, keeping the lines bold and graphic. My animal series drawings will be used eventually … Continue reading Animal Series: Owl
By: Staci Srebro As previously mentioned in last week’s post, I am drawing a series of animals and building up a body of work for my future senior art show. I am trying to draw as many different types of animals as possible: not only mammals, or only cats…even though they are my favorite animals! I drew a Praying Mantis because they are one of … Continue reading Animal Series: Praying Mantis
By: Staci Srebro For my next few posts on this blog, I will be posting artwork that pertains to my future art exhibition at Keystone College. I am not a senior yet, but will be starting the fall 2018 semester, so it’ still good to practice my artwork and theme for my future show. At Keystone College, all senior art students work through their senior … Continue reading Animal Series: Anglerfish
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