Happy Sunday, hivers... How was your weekend this time? While some people might enjoy their weekends by being lazy, or travelling when the weather is nice, this time I spent it by drawing.

I'm not an artist, by the way. Not a painter either. I just have an interest in it. Mainly, because my father loved to teach me to draw. Lately, I've been playing with colours again. This time I ventured to use acrylic paint. Although I'm actually not very good at playing with colour paints of any kind, I'm eager to try.

Today I would like to show you two pictures that I made. One is titled De Uyuni. I was inspired to draw this because I saw a scene in a very beautiful Japanese film called April, Come She Will. In that film, Haru, one of the characters visited De Uyuni in Bolivia, although this is far from successful, but, let me show you.

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A Girl In D'Middle Of Uyuni

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First, I drew a centre line that would be the boundary between the sky and the land. Then for the uppermost sky, I used the colour Blue Lake. Since I had a limited amount of blue, finally, to show a gradation to a lighter blue, I mixed it with Titanium White.

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As for the cloud wave effect, I used Titanium White completely. You know, I really didn't learn any techniques because this was just self-taught, so I was really confident that it would fail. Ha ha ha

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After colouring it completely with blue and blue that was semi-white, then creating a white cloud effect, I added a girl standing in the middle of De yuni with a bright red long coat and jet black hair. The girl's name was Haru who was gazing at the stunning De Uyuni. And... the drawing ended just like that.

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Then, for the second drawing, I drew a tree with golden coloured leaves.

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Menguning

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Yes, I wanted to title the drawing MENGUNING which means to become yellow. I mean, because this phon is a tree in autumn that will soon shed its leaves.

I divided my paper into 70% for the skyscape, and 30% for the ground. Just like in De Uyuni's way, I polished the sky into a blue that graded to light blue and a cloud effect.

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As for the tree trunks, I mixed Flesh Tint colour with Mars Black colour. There was no specific size, I just mixed by feeling. After that, I drew the tree trunk complete with branches.

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Then, to give the impression of golden leaves, I overwrote the tree trunk with yellow and orange.

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Polished randomly to form a tree. As for the bottom, I used green and orange colours for the effect of grass and fallen leaves. While brown became the bottom layer for the ground.

How is it? Can my drawing be considered ‘passable’ for a beginner? At the very least, I've been creative this Sunday. Thank you for reading my post.

me and my works

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