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This image was such an iconic image when the first Apple Phone hit the market, or maybe it was the second, everyone see this image either on their phones, packaging or advertising for Apple, all these years later and I still love the image and have it on my phone. As I glanced around the room trying to find inspiration, I noticed the two little Clownfish on my home screen and decided to try them.
I created this piece of art as part of my review for the Conté à Paris Pastel Pencils. I used some Unison Soft Pastels for the background, backgrounds can be done using pastel pencils but it is much easier and faster using pastel sticks or blocks for larger areas. However, as a side note, with Pastel sticks and blocks, you tend to find that the pigment strength is much greater in such pastels over that of pastel pencils.
I am a huge fan of the UFC which for those of you who may not know, it is Mixed Martial Arts MMA and within the sport my two favourite fighters are Nick and Nate Diaz. As Nate Diaz has just fought in a huge fight in Madison Square Garden, I really wanted to try and draw both the Diaz Brothers.
I decided to draw Marvels Captain America and this was going to push me out of my comfort level because I am terrible at creating portraiture art especially with colored pencils. However I didn’t complete the drawing on my usual paper for a project of this level, Strathmore 500 Series Bristol Plate. I wanted to show the pencils of working along side other mediums such as markers, as marker and colored pencil are my two favourite mediums to use.
When I returned from our holiday a week or so ago, as always is the case, I needed to get the markers out and draw something colourful. This was not in line with a review per-say, although I did use the gorgeous Arteza Everblend Markers which I recently reviewed. I just simply wanted to splash as much color as I could on paper and get my art fix, quick.
With the Arteza Everblend Markers, I wanted to create something that was going to really show off the vibrant pigmented inks inside the markers. I came across this image on Pinterest and thought I would use it due to the dark colors blending into light at the bottom of the image, I thought this would also help demonstrate the blending ability of the markers.
I have created a new YouTube channel, nothing at all will be changing on my Art Gear Guide channel or the website, everything will remain unchanged. The only reason I have created this new YouTube Channel is so I can upload speed drawings that I do in my own spare time. This art work is from the popular Anime and Manga series Sword Art Online and the character is Asuna Undine.
With this art work I completed it using the Schpirerr Farben Colored Pencils, I personally feel that this is perhaps the best art work I have completed so far and I put a lot of the credit down to the pencils. I know I completed the drawing, but the experience, of using such a fantastic set of tools certainly helped create this piece.
I completed this drawing of the four Spidermen from different dimensions, using my Stylefile Markers on Strathmore 400 Series Bristol Smooth paper. For a while now I have been on the search now for the past year and a half or so, for the perfect Copic Marker alternative.
I completed this painting on the Arteza Premium Cold Pressed Watercolor Pad, I also used the Arteza Water Brush Set for quite a bit of the painting and traditional watercolor brushes for the remainder. I will be doing a full review of the Arteza Water Brush pens at a later date, I think they are worth taking a look at on their own.
I completed this art work of Disney’s Lady And The Tramp using and demonstrating Spectrum Noir’s new Tri-Blend Markers. Check out the art work and see links to the review and speed drawing of this art. Spectrum Noir have done it again, launching yet another amazing product and this one is excellent for beginners.
This art work is not really tied up with a particular review, I just really wanted to draw something for myself and with whatever pencils I wanted, the Star Wars Tusken Raider is what I came up with.
I completed the painting on the Strathmore 140lb watercolor paper from the Visual Journal line, I have spoke about the Strathmore Journals before and think they are a fantastic range of pads of all kinds of artists.
This page has images of my speed drawing video of a rose, created using the Derwent Artists Coloured Pencils on Clairefontaine Pastelmat paper. The reason for this art work was to help illustrate the vibrant colors of the Derwent Artists pencils on the right surface.
I completed this artwork using the pencils I am reviewing, the Winsor & Newton Studio Collection Watercolor Pencils and it was painted on Strathmore 400 Series Watercolor Paper. I hope you enjoy the art work and to find out more about the pencils, check the page for links to videos and speed paintings.
I completed this botanical piece using the Mitsubishi Uni Colored Pencils only on Strathmore 500 Series Bristol Plate. I have been away from my art supplies for a few weeks due to my father undergoing Bowel Cancer surgery and so when I finally returned to making reviews, my drawing had seriously took a nose dive.
When I first received this beautiful set of Caran d’Ache Pastel Pencils, I knew immediately what I wanted to paint, a landscape scene of a place very special to my wife and I. It is a very small hamlet in the Lake District not far from Keswick called Grange,
I have created this Christmas themed art work with some Winsor & Newton Brushmarkers and their brand new, incredibly exciting Studio Collection Coloured Pencils. I have used the Brushmarkers to generate the bulk of the colour but then used the coloured pencils for the detail, as well as the detailed areas
I reviewed this set of colored pencils from TomBow called 1500 and with them I wanted to create some art work. The art work I decided to create was this Boba Fett Image from Star Wars and although I used Copic Markers and Stylefile Markers to lay down the base colors, all the detail and enriching of tones was completed using the TomBow 1500 Colored Pencils.
As well as the images I have posted on this page of the art work at various stages of completion, I have also added a speed drawing on my YouTube channel of this art work, you will notice that I completed this Spider-Man artwork with alcohol markers and used the Giotto Di Natura colored pencils for the detail.
