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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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Faber-Castell Polychromos vs Prismacolor Premier
Faber-Castell Polychromos vs Prismacolor Premier Welcome to the battle of the battles! When it comes to colored pencils the question is one: Faber-Castell or prismacolor? Over the years I have worked extensively with both brands and even though there is a ton of arguments on the internet, I wanted to ...
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Drawing Elsa with my kid’s pencils
Drawing Elsa with my kid’s pencils I borrowed my 3 year old daughter’s pencils the other day. An interesting experiment, primarily I wanted to see what can be achieved with kid’s pencils. And I wanted to feel like a three year old for a while! The pencils Used this 12 ...
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Drawing the WonderWoman
After double graphite/colored pencil Aquaman, I thought I would do a similar drawing of Gal Gadot/WonderWoman. Unlike Aquaman, however, I had a lot of trouble with badass WonderWoman! (Well, I should have expected it, she’s … WonderWoman after all!). Anyways, hope I did her, well, Justice! Back to the drawing. ...
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Drawing Aquaman
Drawing Aquaman Drawing Jason Momoa as Aquaman today. As I mentioned before, I was the biggest cinema nerd before having my two babies. So it was not easy having my friends ranting about how great “Aquaman” was, still they can’t draw him, can’t they?? XD Anyways, tried to mix graphite ...
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3 Pencil Challenge: Drawing Wolverine
3 Pencil Challenge: Drawing Wolverine Drawing a color portrait with only 3 colored pencils. This is something I wanted to do for a long time, partly to challenge myself, partly to prove that I can do it and partly … just for fun! To loosen up and do something silly ...
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Drawing skintones with colored pencils (featuring Avi Kaplan)
Drawing skintones with colored pencils is probably the most challenging task for all pencils artists and drawing enthusiasts out there. And that’s quite understandable since skin consists not only of multiple hues of browns, reds, and yellows, but also unlikely colors such as greens, blues and purples. (Yes, really!) Fortunately, ...
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Draw this again: Jack Sparrow
I’m totally obsessed with everything related to the Pirates of the Caribbean: Johnny, the movies, the music… everything. Naturally I tend to do a Jack Sparrow drawing every now and then. So, I felt quite brave the other day and decided to share my progress throughout the years with a ...
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Ioanna Ladopoulou
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