artby.dara

The assignment this time was to sketch a busy area, it could be a bus stop, a bridge, etc. The main focus of the study was to be the people in motion. Here’s what I did! The drawing took about 2-3 hours

This time around, we had to do life drawing of a particular location at school. Its a very peaceful sitting area with tall trees, cool breeze and monkeys occasionally running about :) It was nice to sit

There’s a point you get to from drawing so much that makes you want to get away from drawing, this was me yesterday. Yesterday was my rest day from drawing. I had drawn so much in the past week and this

We had the first drawing class this week at school! There was so much pressure but it was fun! We had to draw each model for 10 minutes, in total we had to draw 9 people within two hours! It was a challenge,

I set a new goal for myself. This goal is to get a better grade in my drawing course at school. The challenge or the issue with my drawings lies in my shading ability. Looking back, I think I was afraid

It has been a minute ! I have missed the hive community! I have been taking a lot of photographs lately, mostly of plants. I have shared these plant photos and stories that come with them on my instagram

Hey there! I missed prompt 6, I wasn’t feeling too well. I’m a little better today, so here’s Day 7- Trip! I imagined traveling to places like Egypt to take a break so here’s a mini character of mine leading

Here’s a flame lily. While studying the plant, I noticed that it looks like an inverted lily. While looking at references, I saw that one of the artists I look up too had died, Kim Jung Guis. He’s such

I’ve never eaten scallops before, and while looking for reference photos, all I found was tasty looking seafood. I knew that couldn’t be all, so I googled scallops again. This time, I found an etching

On some days, when the sun is just rising and the night is fading, I find half eaten guava fruit and seeds all around. The culprit at that time had flown away. But these days, I don’t see the half eaten

First of all, here’s the cat that inspired my entry for the prompt Was on my out and I saw this pretty cat abandoned on the road, unfortunately my environs is populated by dogs. Most people choose to own

Phew! What a prompt! As always, I googled what the prompt meant. I learnt that gargoyles are actually used to drain rainwater from the roof in order to prevent damage to the walls of a building. That was

Inktober is so close! In preparation I’m warming up a bit by sketching. I hope I’ll be consistent with it this time, unlike last year’s where I had to combine two prompts a day when I missed one. For my

Hello amazing people! Today, I decided paint the flowers from the sketch I made a few posts ago on here. In the comments, @kneelyrac wanted to see the painted version of the sketch. So here it is! To see

Hello amazing people! For today, I finished the illustration of a banana leaf I was working on. Each time I was about to add a few more lines on the drawing, a new task would pop up. I’m glad I got to

Hello amazing people! This time around I’ve been photographing the flora around me and it’s been really interesting. I also got to discover new flowers as well as what they are used for. Here is a plant

It’s been 3 months since I last posted on here and it makes me sad when I think about it because I really enjoyed sharing my art here. I fell ill which has been happening of and on since the year started.

Hey there! I decided to work on painting a lighter skinned person once more and I was quite frustrated at first. I sketched my muse and laid the first wash layer. As I got painting, I realized I was being

Hey there! About 2 posts ago, I practiced painting someone with a dark complexion, today’s painting is a practice on painting someone with a Pale/light complexion. I also practiced within a time limit

Hello! I decided to practice based on what I’d learnt from the last study on how to paint different hues of green. I picked 3 reference photos from unsplash. I selected different areas that would be