BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL 🖤//Charcoal pencil and poster color on needle point paper.
introduction
Greetings to everyone in this community I'm so delighted to bring to you one of my wonderful art piece I just finished recently .
At first it wasn't really easy, I even I had to start thinking that I have reached my creative end point.perhaps I had to give my self some Courage and inspiration by looking into other peoples art on Instagram and other socials.
As you can see below I have to share the step by step process in creating this wonderful art of mine,stay tune as you enjoy the step by step process....
BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL 🖤
Art displayed on my drawing board
1st step(outline)
This step actually represents the blue print of the art , without this I don't think this art will be in existence .
I made use of a very lighter pencil when at this stage to avoid making my work look rough.
2nd step:
At this point I was confused on were to start so I had to start from the eye ball because it seems to be the most easiest part on the reference picture, while I was drawing the eye I used a cotton bud and charcoal powder to make I first layer blending on the pupil before before applying my charcoal pencil directly before blending it finally with a blending stump and then I made the highlight with a mono zero eraser.
3rd Step:
This step explains my blending process using my soft painting brush and charcoal powder. perhaps at this point I created two layer blending to make the skin tone pop out.
When I was done in making a good skin tone I had to apply my monozero into action to create a little bit of realism on the skin .
In conclusion I used a different technique in creating the hair region by using my charcoal pencil in making hair texture and blending it up with a soft painting brush which after that I also used a monozero eraser and skin tints pastel pencil to create highlights on the hair.
4th step:
As we can see vividly from the image it shows the second face which i used the same procedure I used in step 2&3 although when I made the necklace on the child's neck I didn't spend much time on it because it was done with just drawing it with a charcoal pencil and then making highlights on it using a monozero eraser.
5th step:
At this stage , I was almost done on the skin region before I could jump into making the necklace of the mother which was kind of difficult for me .
In conclusion I had to just ddo my thing by repeating the same procedure I used in the step where I made the childs necklace but something the different came in , while doing my highlights I had to make it not much visible because from the reference picture it wasn't that colourful and bright like the one on the child's neck.
6th step:(Final step)
At this point, I was done with the drawing perhaps I had to give it a last touch by creating interesting details on the skin by using a skin tints pastel pencil to make it visible because of the texture of the skin in the reference picture.and also , I used my soft eraser to create a highlights on the toe which I must say came out nice.
In conclusion,when I was already done with my last touches I wasn't that satisfied on the work because it looked plain to me so I had to think of something to make the drawing more interesting .
Stay tuned as I share my what I did on the background
7th step:(coloured background)
When the background was completed
When background was still in progress
Making this background was kind of fun for me because it wasn't that stress for me because I really enjoyed the process . Actually I used a cotton bud and poster colour to paint the ages of the image to avoid mix up with the charcoal and poster colour.
In conclusion I used a bigger painting brush to complete the larger background of the drawing and also I used a charcoal pencil and blending stump in creating the flowers on the background.
Indeed I must say I really enjoyed creating this art piece which comes with an inspiration of a strong black woman.
Final display of my art piece with a white background and colourful background
Art on colourful background:
Art on plain white background:
Tools:
- Needle point paper
- HB pencil
- Charcoal pencil/powder
- Skin tints pastel pencil
- Monozero eraser
- Soft painting brush
- Blending stump
- Cotton bud
- Poster colour
SIZE:
- 16x24
Duration:
- 200hours
Camera type:
- Redmi9a
watermark:
- I used a skin tints pastel pencil to sign out the image below at the left hand side.
I'm inviting @curator01 to go through my new art piece and as you do that may God bless you.