Tips.

Hey Guys!

Today I'll be giving you a few tips on how to improve your drawings (if you are a beginner).
I'm just going to bullet point a few tips and explain why.

• Hold your pencils like it's a brush

- Hold it lightly, don't press to hard, it makes your picture look nicer. Also it helps when sketching because it makes it easier to rub it out.  

• Draw your line in the air before you actually draw it

- Mime drawing the line you want to draw before you draw it (helps to create a smoother line).

• Using the right equipment

- You don't have to go all out and buy really expensive equipment, but don't just buy the cheapest of the cheap. 
  

• Find what's right for you

- (FULLSTOP!)

• Practice, Practice, Practice 

 - I know, I know we all hate listening to this, but it's true.



Hope you all find these tips useful!

Amethyst<3xx 

Sketch Of The Week - "Less is More"

Sometimes - "Less is more" Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto 1855

Amethyst xx<3

REVIEW: Copic Ciao

Hey Guys!

Today I have something slightly different for you. As you can probably tell from the title this is a review on the Copic Ciao Markers. I have meaning to buy some of these for a while and last week went to Hobbycraft and bought these. Yay! So lets get right to it! 

As is quite common with a lot of markers they are double ended - I've taken a picture of them to show you.

I also have drawn some eyes to show you what they look like when you draw with them!

                And here is an example of the different widths and ways that you can use them!

The thick end is quite hard and can cover larger areas while the thin end is amazingly soft; it's like using a really soft paint brush! My rating is 9 1/2 out of 10 I'm definitely going to buy more.

I hope you all like this review. I don't think it is too bad for a first attempt.


Amethyst xx<3  

"Happy St. Paddy's day"

Hey Guy!

So to celebrate St. Paddy's day I have drawn a leprechauns Pot of Gold from the end of the rainbow. Well I say drew, but if you look closer you'll see that I didn't colour it in as I normally do. Instead of inking it in with pens or markers, I used watercolours because I finally managed to buy some new brushes! Watercolours, I have found, add nice light touch to any picture and you have more control of the denseness of your colour.

I've had a little bit of creative block this week but I'll still manage to get posts up for you this weekend, so don't worry!

Hope you all like it!

Amethyst xx<3

"My New Years Resolution"

Hey Guys

Hope you are all having a great weekend!

Today I'm setting myself a challenge, one of my New Year's resolutions was to upload on here more often.  So the other day I sat myself down and tried to figure out what I wanted to upload and when I wanted to upload it. So what I thought of was to upload two posts a week; one on Saturday and one on Sunday.  On Saturdays I'm going to upload something that I thought I'd call Sketch of the week which is basically just me explaining a picture that I have drawn earlier that week. On Sundays you can expect to find things like tutorials, reviews and my comments on different art related stuff. 

So that is basically it.  Thanks for reading this little post.

Amethyst Xx<3  

"The eyes are window of the soul"

Hey Guys!

Hope you are all well!

Today I will be doing something different. Instead of just drawing a picture and scanning it in and then showing you, I'm going to actually show you how to draw it. So, I thought I would start with something easy (sort of!)... an eye. Now personally I really enjoy drawing eyes and I hope you will too!

 

What you need:

1 Rubber

1 HB Pencil

1 Pencil sharpener

1 Smudge stump (If you don't have one of these I'd suggest you go and get one as they are very useful for smudging, but for now just use a cotton bud or your finger)

                               

 This is what you'll be drawing!

                             

So first start by sketching a long curved line for the top lid and then a short broken line for the lower lid.

                                      

Next do exactly the same just slightly lower and join up the ends like this. 

 

Then sketch in outline for the iris and pupil in the centre and then add a highlight in the top right corner of the iris. 

  

Now start to add lashes and to shade the upper and lower lids.

 

Next thicken the edge of the iris and highlight and shade in half of the pupil - smudge it with the stump until blurry.

 

Once you have done that it's time to draw the coloured part of the iris. I'm not to sure what to call it so just look at the the image below. 

  

Almost there now just thicken the lashes slightly and touch up anything your not happy with.

Although this is an eye tutorial I'm adding an eyebrow as well so just draw another curved line and thicken at the right end. 

And that is all you have to do although you can to sign and date your picture if you want to. Well that it for now guys hope you all enjoyed this tutorial and remember if you don't succeed the first time keep practising it'll come to you in time.

Amethyst <3xx

"Let's Get Ready To Ready To JUNGLE!!!!!!!!!"

Hey Guys,
Sorry about not uploading anything on Halloween I was just so busy these last few weeks but anyway this evening (as some of you may know) "I'm a celebrity" starts and also (as some of you may know) My cousin Union J's George Shelley is going to be one of the contestants this years so I thought I'd draw a picture of him to put up. I drew this using a Wacom Intous Creative Pen Tablet and Autodesk Sketch Book Express (I'll be doing a review on these soon!)
                                                      
                                                                Original <3

My Drawing<3               

Well that's it for today guys hope you like it and hopefully I will be uploading the 2nd part of the mermaid series in the next few days, let me know what you think.

                

                                                                                    Amethyst<3xx