Black and White Portrait!

The Black and White portraits are difficult to make, especially if you're like me!
You'll see, I don't have any talent in free-handed drawing, I love to draw but unfortunately  it's not what I'm good at. My thing is more the technical drawing, but anyhow, I try to do some portraits too, or at least I tried with this one: Cara Delevigne!

It's from a photograph I found on the internet. I used a technique called Tracing, some say that's cheating, but for me, it's just another technique for drawing. 

I used a light box and the software Silhouette, with the software I traced it first, and then I printed it, and then I used that traced photo and my light box to make the drawing, of course, meaning the silhouette, then I had to make all the shadows by looking the original photograph.

It's my first portrait, so don't be so hard on me! I had a very long time of not drawing or shadowing.

Just a tip, when you're making the shadows, put a piece of paper under your hand, that will keep you form not stain the drawing.

Gear used: Drawing Book 90G

                  Pencils: HB, 2H and 2B

                  Wood Light Box.

Super Canvas Roll Up Pencil Wrap

This is a review for the Super Canvas Roll Up Pencil Wrap.
This is made for your colored pencils, however it can be used with any pens or pencils you use, including thin markers.

But like I wrote before, it can be used also with thin markers, like for example, the Stabilo. This canvas protects the markers/pens/pencils very well, it has a cover for the tips of your pencils.

In the shown above, I keep my Stabilo's marlers, three Staedler Mars Lumograph Pencils, one Prismacolor Blender and an eraser, you can also keep a thin sharpener, and it folds just right!

Keep in mind that if you're gonna use it to keep markers, they have to be thin, otherwise it's gonna be useless to you!

This is a good choice if you don't like to keep the big boxes that come with your pencils, or markers. This is great for keep everything in a small place, or when you travel!.

The Psychology in Art Therapy!

Drawing or Painting? Either way, it's the best way to feel free of stress, enjoy your spare time, and find yourselves with you interior child.
This Psychological therapy is been used as the way people can connect with the interior child.
Our interior child is always with us. When we grow up and become adults, sometimes we forget to do things for our interior child, we stopped doing things we used to do as a child and begin to make growing up things. And we forget to pay attention to our interior child, the one's who always in there, the one who marks our childhood and our future as an adults.
Drawing and Painting are very common things we used to do as kids, in our home, in the school, with our friends, by ourselves, either way, we used to love to do these; drawing and painting, even we were good or we sucked at it, it's a primary thing we used to do.
As a grown ups, we took for granted that we don't need to take care of that kid anymore, we get involved in our grown up things that we forget our interior child, that he/she still needs us, that needs that we take care of him/her, that we play with him/her.
And if we can do this, if we can take care of this amazing kid, we will be better as the adults that we are. Reconnecting with our interior child, helps us in feeling better with ourselves, it helps us with the rutinary sress of our jobs, and having fun of doing some art.
This art therapy can also be combined with another kind of therapy, the music! It's very relaxing to draw or paint while you're listening some music, either way it's rock, alternative, chill out, punk, etc, it's way better doing your best art while you're also enjoying some music!
So feel free of keep doing what you're doing, keep having fun with it and disconnect yourself of the wildernest of the world.
I'll leave here some of my paintings, I'm not the best at it, but I really enjoy it and that's what it counts!!