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Henry Cavill Drawing (with budget pencils)
Last Easter when we visited the grandparents, I promised myself that I would take a break from work and all my pencils, sketchbooks, supplies were left behind. Day 1: all is good. Day 2: I miss drawing. And we come to Day 3: First symptoms of withdrawal. By the end ...
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Lucifer Drawing (and Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor)
As a series, Lucifer became something special for me. When I was younger I was the biggest cinema nerd out there. I would go to the cinema so often that there was no movie to watch by the end of the week. And when there was no movie left, I ...
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Captain America drawing
Started this Captain America drawing the other day. I wanted so much for this to be my best work (or one my best works) but sometimes things don’t go as planned. I had mixed thoughts about posting this piece on the internet, but in the end I decided to share ...
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WonderWoman Drawing
Back to my roots with graphite and a WonderWoman Drawing! I love colors but nothing compares to evoking emotions only with shades of black and white. Tools As mentioned before, I am quite a minimalist when it comes to art supplies. Partly because I am the most disorganized person out ...
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Double Exposure Drawing (Albert Einstein) + finding my style (?)
Double Exposure Drawing (Albert Einstein) + finding my style (?) When I was little I was dreaming of becoming a mathematician and a theoretical physicist. I ended up studying electrical engineering and computer science. And now I work primarily as … an artist! But let me tell you what, a ...
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The problem with artificial lighting and colored pencils
Story of my life: I start working on a new drawing at night, only to find out that next morning everything looks different! Have you ever experienced something similar? Welcome to the club! The problem is that artificial lighting can never be equal to natural lighting. Since colors are actually ...
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Why I decided to ditch YouTube
EDIT: Seems that I won’t be ditching YouTube altogether, after all. I will be uploading my “not so serious” projects, those that won’t suffer substantially if I draw with a camera above my head. Oh, my Gosh, it is May already? (Actually, not only it is May, it is almost ...
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Crush testing my pencils regarding graphite shine
Let’s talk about something different today. How to reduce graphite shine (or make peace with it). 🙂 If you are a pencil artist or student, chances are that you have been bothered by graphite shine. But what it is exactly and why so much buzz about it? First of all, ...
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The struggles of a (wannabe) digital artist
Hey everyone! Happy March and happy spring! I couldn’t have started spring with a darker and moodier piece! Done on an iPad Pro, with an Apple Pencil, in Procreate app. I began making a font the other day, based on the 2014 “Warcraft” movie logo. For no particular reason I decided ...
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Ioanna Ladopoulou
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