Materials: graphite pencils on Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper, 11 x 14 inch.
Reference: photo from Paint My Photo
Reference: photo from Paint My Photo
What’s the best portrait size for you?
By jullia in Articles
5 x 7 inch / 17,8 x 12,7 cm
8 x 10 inch / 20,3 x 25,4 cm
11 x 14 inch / 27,9 x 35,6 cm
Often people don’t know how big a portrait should be, how would it look like or where are they going to put it. Here are my suggestions about this issue. Read the rest of this entry »
Viking – small portrait commission
By jullia in Commissions, My gallery
Materials: graphite pencils on Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper, 7 x 5 inch.
Reference: client photo
Reference: client photo
I made this commission at the beginning of this year, but seams like I forgot to submit it. A small and interesting portrait. It was a present made for him. He is big fan of vikings, so the person who made this present asked me if I could make him look like a real viking 
. So, a helmet and some long hair transformed him in a veritable viking . Now this portrait is on his desk in the office, making him smile and feel stronger every time a client gets him angry 
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3D drawing
By jullia in Articles
Tip:
click on image above, view it in full screen mode (F11 in Firefox) and put on your 3D glasses.
click on image above, view it in full screen mode (F11 in Firefox) and put on your 3D glasses.
The world around us is 3D, but the photos we capture, or the drawings/paintings that we make are 2D. Among time, people tried to change the 2D surface into a 3D one, or more exactely to give the illusion of a 3D one. This is how the stereoscopy appeared, which refers to any technique capable of recording three-dimensional visual information or creating the illusion of depth in an image.
It is amazing how you can hide a 3D image behind a 2D one. The last trend in the 3D images are the 3D glasses witch allows you to see… of course in 3D. So I’ve played a little with the Photoshop and some of my drawings, and I’ve created the above collage. The objects are not 3D, but there are 2 different viewing layers. If you move around you’ll have the illusion of the cat following those 2 lovers.
Another type of 3D images are the 3d stereograms. For those of you who can do the eye cross trick (see here video explanation of how to do this) and see 3D, click on the image below and see something very familiar with this website So, what did you see?
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The history of drawing
By jullia in ArticlesDrawing.. what’s the importance of drawing? How simple is it? Does it has a practical role, or just an artistic one? People began drawing from the pre-historical period, and it was a way of communication, and among the years it’s main role remained the communication, the visual one.
I just discovered the BBC documentary named “The secret of drawing” – four part series, presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon, which explores how drawing has shaped our lives. I really recommend this documentary! See it in the videos bellow.
A friend from UK, Roy Simmons, recommended me a very interesting website DocuWatch – a website full with videos about art. If you are interested into art history, I would also recommend you the Smarthistory.org – which is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook.
Now, the more I learn about drawing, the more I realize I know so little..
