Drawing Journey

My art throughout the years

Dear friends,

Lately, I’ve been thinking about beginnings. How we start without understanding anything at all. When I first started painting, I mixed watercolors and acrylics because I didn’t even know they were different. I was in my 20s, curious like a child, wondering why some parts of the painting dried so fast. I enjoyed every second of it.

Here’s one of my very first drawings. I believe I was around 24-25.

Later, I bought a Wacom tablet and moved into digital art. No chaos on my desk.

Here are some of my digital sketches. I also tried to paint my first drawing digitally. If I remember well, I was 27-28 at the time.

I returned to creating art this year, 33 year old now. I missed creating, painting and exploring.

Last week, I had my very first drawing class. The teacher asked me to sketch a few objects with pencil so she could see how I observe. My values were off. As homework, she encouraged me to spend this week sketching from life, larger and more confidently, to explore how light and shadows behave.

She also said I will be ready to explore color next time, which excites me!

So this week I’ve been painting in the mornings and drawing in the afternoons. Not everything is from life, most are from references I found, but I really pencil drawings right now. I even tried charcoal for the first time.

Here are some of my latest pencil drawings from this week.

I would really like to know:

When did you start creating?

What’s something you are learning right now?

Thank you for reading this and sitting with me in these moments of learning. It means more than you know!

Till next time,

Christina / Nebeliart