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The history of drawing

By jullia in Articles

Drawing.. 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..

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new drawing WIP1

By jullia in Articles

Materials: graphite pencils, on Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper, 11 x 14 inch. Reference: a photo from Paint my Photo

Hi there! I have started to be busy with the final exams from my master degree, but as always when I have exams I also have a huge urge to draw :D There is no time for this in the day, but there are nights.. so this is what I did in the last 2 nights. I really love the picture and how the drawing turns out. The reference is again from Paint my Photo website.

I don’t know yet what to draw in front of his eyes.. something that he is looking at so curious. I have some ideas, but I don’t know yet. Any suggestions? :)

Art swap revealed

By jullia in Articles

My art swap arrived in save conditions in USA. Jason Barre is the happy owner of my drawing with those 2 lovers. Jason Barre is a great painter artist. Coincidently I was watching his work, on Twitter. He plays nice with the colours, knowing how to reduce a gamma of a painting to only 2 or 3 colors.
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By jullia in Articles

I thought that it would be nice to make a newsletter for my website :). And the little monkey from MailChimp gave me a helping hand to do this. So if you want to receive the newsletter with the last updates from jullia.eu and the special offers (which will be available only for subscribers) you can subscribe here or you can simply use the form bellow

two roses

By jullia in Gallery, Portraits, Prints

Materials: graphite pencils, charcoal, graphitint on Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper, 11 x 7 inch.
Reference: photo by Deby Dearman from Paint my Photo

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1920 Gangsters

By jullia in Commissions, Gallery

Materials: graphite pencils on Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper, 11 x 14 inch.
Reference: client photo + stock

This drawing was more like an illustration. The only reference that I had from the client was their head. The rest of the body I had to invent it or use several references from internet. It was very interesting to draw this, even if I almost didn’t knew how it will look like in the end. But seams like it toured out nice and they look like some real gangsters from 1920, as they wished.
No, her abdomen is not wrong :D she is waiting for a baby, so I had to make the hole family. Seams like there are 3 gangsters and not 2 :)
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Art swap

By jullia in Articles, Portraits

Materials: graphite pencils on Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper, 5 x 7 inch.

I am taking part to an art swap organised by David Pringle. (: Here you can see more details about this.
It’s the first big art swap that I am taking part of. The first one was on pencilportraits.ning.com but it was a little one made between members. This time seams like there are involved many many artists from all over the world :D I am so excited to see what piece of art I will receive.

Here is the list with all the artist involved in the current art swap, but I heard that it will be another one in 6 months. So stay tuned!

My art work is the one above, with the lovers. It’s not so big because I have to deliver it far far away :D Now is packed and in a few minutes I go to the post office. I really hope that the receiver will like it.