Year of Horse (2014)

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

It's the year of horse!

My sneaky wish though...

"More Tao Hua for me please."

And yes, I'm born in the year of rooster.

Shouldn't I be a hen...?

Anyway, I wish those who celebrates Chinese New Year a prosperous one!

龙马精神！

马到功成！

步步高升！

Oh hey, my Chinese ain't that rusty YET.

Also, I've tried drawing horses early this month.

Oh yea, I can't wait until around the middle of the month.

So enthusiastic for it.

Haha...

Failed a little here and there, but I'm pretty satisfied with this one.

Inspired by a Disney film, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002).

I LOVE that film!

That horse is so handsome.

*ehem*

Ok... What?

Here, as you can see, I used a forest green and a blue watercolour pencils on the edges of the horse.

This is how it looks like after I go over it with a wet brush.

Who needs a unicorn when our beautiful world have beautiful Stallions?

Abby Lim

Drawing: The Big Hair and Hibiscus

Hi everyone!

So this post is really random. I have heck no idea how I came out with this piece here but here it is.

While I was drawing this, I was all aimless. All I used was watercolour pencils, marker pens and black gel pen.

I wanted to practise drawing asians as I am REALLY bad at it.. then aimlessly drew a face out which I have heck no idea who this looks like. Then, aimlessly just coloured the hair BIG. Then just used my black pen and scribble the freaking hair. At the same time I wanted to add a flower on top of the head. Then I added Hibiscus, because I thought that's my national flower, so why not eh?

Then this whole thing just became a piece without a plan. Just random thoughts at the moment while drawing.

Well, most of what I draw throughout my life are not perfect looking. There's always mess and things that don't make sense. At least to me. But the more I look at the mess, the more I like it. I'm weird in my own way.

Haha...

Abby Lim

Drawing: Pink Roses

Hi there!

So this will be my first ever serious art blog post as well as the second blog post of the year. As you can tell by the title, yes, they are some pink roses.

I've always been loving roses. They are one of my favourite type of flower. However, the white roses are just not my taste. In my opinion, they just look dead. :/ Ahaha..

Other than roses, I also love tulips, daisies, water lilies, pertunas, carnations and morning glories. Well, I'm not a green thumb so it's sad that I can't keep/ grow any of these. Besides, the weather of where I live, a big no no. They will all just die.

Enough of me babbling about flowers and lets get to the drawings.

So for my drawing here, I used Crayolas' Super Tips Washable Markers (the only markers I have for now), Faber Castell's Manga set which I own for years (barely used it often), Faber Castell's watercolour pencils, and lastly Monami's permanent marker pen. 

So I start of by sketching out the desired roses in the positions I like.

Then I used the pink marker and light green/ lime green marker to go all over the roses and the leaves. 

Used the red and the green marker for the shades.

After that, I go ahead and used one of the shade off the Manga set to do further shading to give some dimensions and depths.

Added the background shade with a black coloured watercolour pencil and used Monami's permanent marker to outline everything. 

This is the result!

Roses are really difficult to draw. They take really long for me to even finish sketching! But roses aren't meant to look perfect most of the time anyway. Their petals go everywhere and anywhere.

I used an iPhone 4s to capture all the photos by the way. I have no fancy shmancy DSLR camera.

Thanks for viewing! :)

Abby Lim