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3D drawing

jullia — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:49:00 +0000

Tip:
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?

*image made on five.flash-gear.com/stereo

The history of drawing

jullia — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:14:40 +0000

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..

Part 1: “The Line of Enquiry”

Part 2: “Storylines”

Part 3 – “All in the mind”:

Part 4: “Drawing by Design”

new drawing WIP1

jullia — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:23:19 +0000

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 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

jullia — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:16:27 +0000

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.

Go on his website and see more of his works

He wrote on his blog about how excited was to receive my drawing.

Here is what he said:

David Pringle (@dpringle on Twitter) had a brilliant idea one day that when shared, soon spanned scross the globe: Art Swap 2010. Artists from all over the world trading their work with one another on the honor system. The honest, tight creative community online honored David’s inspiring idea and committed to it. I was one of the fortunate participants!

So it was upon my awaking to a knock on the door this afternoon, that I received my art swap piece. A very well packed artwork from Hodoroaba Ancuta Iuliana ( @julliaH on Twitter & Facebook Fan page ) comes all the way from Romania.

Upon opening the package I was immediately awestruck at the beautiful art that sat before me.

Included was a very kind hand written letter sealed with wax. The seal had been imprinted with the letter “j”. I was very careful and manged to open the letter without breaking the seal.

The humidity here is very high today so after I shot these photos the piece was wrapped back up to protect it from curling. I’ll pick up a approprate frame this week to put the drawing in so I can display it in the main foyer for all visitors to see and enjoy.

I am still waiting for the piece of art that should have to arrive to me. When I’ll have news about this, I’ll update this post

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U P D A T E:

Yupyy I have finally received my art swap A very interesting little painting. It’s from Allison Martínez from Puerto Rico. I didn’t knew her, but now I do, and more than that, I am able to see live one of her works.. and own it. Of course that the first think that I did was to enter her website and see more of her works. She has an interesting style of painting. Every painting is small (as a dimension) but it has a message, it has always something to say, to communicate. And that’s a think I always appreciate to an artist.

Here are some of her works (go on Allison Martínez web page to see more):

And here is the painting she sent me:

Thank you Allison very very much! I really like it! Be sure that I’ll keep it save

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jullia — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:17:14 +0000

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

Art swap

jullia — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:59:39 +0000

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 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 Now is packed and in a few minutes I go to the post office. I really hope that the receiver will like it.

Vintage – wallpaper

jullia — Sun, 09 May 2010 13:44:23 +0000

Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece.

Another wallpaper with a nice quote no offence! but I just like how it sounds. Choose the screen resolution from bellow and set it as your own wallpaper.

1280 – 800
1280 – 1024
1600 – 1200

*Frame image from sxc.hu

Nurturing creativity – by Elizabeth Gilbert

jullia — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:32:19 +0000

I just want to share with you this interesting presentation of Elizabeth Gilbert about creativity.
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.

SimmTrace – a brilliant idea for starting a drawing

jullia — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:59:45 +0000

When starting a drawing, the first issue is: how am I going to trace my drawing correctly, easy and fast? Everybody has different methods for doing this: transfer paper, grid from photo/print reference, lightbox, real life trace, Photoshop grid, and so on.
Even in the ancient times, artists had their own methods. Artists such as Van Gogh and Da Vinci used the grid, but we attribute the grid to Albrecht Dürer. His magnificent drawings show such realism and the grid was part of that success.(ref)

Did you know the old masters often traced? Leonardo Da Vinci used “Camera Obscura” which is a lens and a mirror set at an angle with parchment over it to trace onto. Michaelangelo used a similar technique. The use of Photography as a mechanical aid to oil paintings and other forms of realistic art came right away. This is not surprising since artists had been tracing from Camera Obscura for thousands of years. (ref)

I just discovered SimmTrace – an optical device which allow anybody to draw like an expert. It is a great idea for starting a draw, which belongs to Roy Simmons. He is a great artist from United Kingdom specialised in watercolour. Bellow you can see Roy’s presentation for the SimmTrace:

Easy, isn’t it? Now I can save a lot of time by tracing my drawings. Before I used transfer paper and it took me a lot of time. Here is a demonstration and some tips of how I used Roy’s idea and of course his software:

Love portrait contest!

jullia — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:58:03 +0000

Hi everyone!
I just opened a little contest on The Portrait Group from Flick .
The members of this group have to post a photo with their lover, between 15 – 22 January.
On 23 – 24 January I’ll make a poll were the members will vote the most beautiful photo. The winning photo will be transformed intro a free nice drawing portrait.

If you would like to take part of this contest too, just become a member of this group and post a photo of your lover (;
Good luck everyone!!