Inspiring songs &...

It's drawing afternoon today ! And if I don't finish it today, tomorrow is drawing day too. :) The sketch is done and I'll start now with the details (shadows, light, etc etc). This week's song is a calm and romantic one and I obviously like to draw to the sound of it. It's tittle is Perfect for Me, by Ron Pope. Please enjoy !

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Anyways, changing the subject now... I am very GLAD to let you know, that Avan Jogia, yes you read it well, Avan SAW drawing I made of him ! (don't know Avan ? Don't know which drawing I'm talking about ? CLICK HERE !) After trying to make the drawing get to him so many times, I finally did it and when I least expected. I shared the link to the drawing sometimes in a reply to him on Twitter, even when he was live tweeting with Twisted fans under the tag #Twistedchat, but I didn't get lucky enough until 3 days ago. I went on Twitter some hours after publishing once again the link to the drawing, and to my surprise, I saw that Avan faved the tweet ! You can't imagine how proud I am. This just comes to proves that your hard work always rewards you somehow. This was the best reward I could get.

In English, it reads: ✩ Avan Tudor Jogia has marked your tweet as favourite.

Filipa, 

                        your tweet was faved !

✩ faved by

                              Avan Tudor Jogia @ATJogia

Surprise, surprise.

Still have a lot to work on. I have a deadline to finish the drawing I'm currently working on, it has to be done before September 19th. That's the day I start my Aikido practises again, and the drawing I'm working on is for my sensei, but he has no idea I'm doing it. It's a surprise. :)

After that, I have at least three comissions to do, if I'm not mistaken. For friends, family, and people that have seen my drawings and wanted one too. I'm really happy. I just hope that when I get back to school I have time for everything. And for the blog too, even though I haven't posted much lately. :/
Hope you are still with the blog. In the meantime, I'll leave you with a pic of me working on the sketch of the drawing I mentioned I was working on right now. :)

Inspiring songs.

Hi everyone. I know I haven't been posting much lately, so I'm sorry (I already lost count of the times I say this at a beginning of a post lol). I am glad to say that lately what's been taking my time is some requests and some comissions I got. I'm really happy that people like my work just enough to ask for a drawing. And some people gave me a lot of suggestions of who to draw next and how to improve my technique, so thanks everyone ! It feels really good to have feedback for something you work hard for. :)

Anyways. I'm not sure of when I shall post again with a new drawing, and I'm not sure if I'll have people's permission to post the comissions I'll make here, so I thought about posting something different and that I could update every week.

Every week I'll share with you a song that I usually listen while I'm drawing. Songs that inspire me and ease my mind to work.

Today I chose one of my favourites ever. It's called Fairy Tale, by Omnia (one of my favourite bands, you should listen to them !). The lyrics are not theirs, it's actually a poem written by Lewis Carrol. And let me just add, it's breath-taking. This song soothes my mind. I easily stress when something doesn't turn out the way I want to, and this song helps me to control stress too. 

I'll leave you with the song, the lyrics are on the video. :)

Avan Jogia.

Hi everyone ! Lately I've been really inspired, and I've even been working on multiple drawings at the same time. One of them is, like I already told you, a drawing to my sensei that I'll give to him as a gift when we get back to the dojo. The other one is the one I'm about to show you, that I finished moments ago.

So, I'm a huge fan of Avan Jogia. Ever since I found out about Twisted (one of my favourites TV series EVER), where Avan plays the main role as Danny Desai, I, as many others, fell in love with both the character and the actor ahah. I love the mistery of it all, you're always wondering who did what and why, and when you think you're sure of what really happened, they always find a way to surprise you. I'm completely hooked ! I'm getting carried away already, I'm sorry ahah. Yey Twisted ! 

I started drawing Avan two days ago, after seeing a beautiful photo in his official facebook page of the photoshoot he did with Angelo Kritikos for Perez Hilton. HERE it is, if you're curious. He looks absolutely stunning and I just couldn't resist ahah. I left it aside yesterday, because I spent the day out, but today I finished it.

To me the hardest part to draw was the pattern of his suit. It wasn't too hard of course, but it wasn't that easy too. I was so concentrated on the shapes  of the pattern that I got a headache. But I still finished it. So, here he is, Avan Jogia everyone ! :) <3

(Click for full view)

Mermaid.

Hi once again. :) I know I said I'd post about my materials this time and haven't done it yet. I've already the pictures, but I've been lazy lately to write about them. So I'm sorry for my laziness, ahah. 

Anyways, instead, I'm here once again to show you one of my new drawings. I did the sketch last Wednesday, when I was at my dad's office. I was bored and had nothing interesting to do, and gladly I had my drawing journal with me so I borrowed a pencil and a rubber from my dad and started doodling. When we came home, I decided to give it a bit of color, but I left it aside and was only able to finish it today.

If you're wondering why it doesn't look so realistic, it's because she's a product of my imagination. Imagination was my only tool on this one, ahah. So here it is, the mermaid. :)

If you wish to see it in a bigger size just click it.

Reaching Nirvana.

Hi there you beautiful people ! How have you been ? You probably noticed the blog has a new look ! It's still under construction, so bear with me if it still looks too simple, My sister is helping me, in fact, she was the one who created the new header and the navbar, so thank you Ofélia !

My next post here was supposed to be about my materials, I'd basically show you all of mine and talk a bit about them, and tell you which one I'm more familiar with, and which ones I use the most, etc etc. I was taking pictures of everything but when I saw the gouaches and the watercolors I felt compelled to use them. Specially because I'm not that confortable with both of them and I really want to expand my horizons, I don't want to be the kind of artist that is stuck in only one material to work. Not saying that it's bad, because it isn't, I just want to be the "flexible" kind of artist that can work with anything that is given to him.

I had no idea what to do, so I just painted the background in black. After it dried, I was thinking on doing something with a white pencil, but then I decided to continue using gouache. As I'm into Buddhism and agree with many of its principles, I decided to go with a little tribute to prince Siddhartha, or Buddha. It pictures the time when prince Siddhartha sat under the bodhi tree and after much time of deep meditation (about 49 days), he is believed to have reached enlightment (Nirvana), becoming then the Buddha (which means Awakened one). I wanted to show my respect somehow and this was the way I found to do it. 

Now, enough with the talking, here it is, hope you like it ! And opinions are always welcome ! :)

Just click it to see it bigger and more detailed.

Hello Bloglovin'.

So, has you may have heard, or not, Google Reader is shutting down and you'll have to find another blog reader to keep up with your favourite blogs. One of the best choices to replace Google Reader is Bloglovin, and it's the current blog reader I'm using. It's pretty simple to use and I actually find it easier than Google Reader. You just have to sign up and once you have your account, you can import the blogs you follow from ANY blog reader to Bloglovin HERE. 

Or, if you want it the easier way, you can just search the blog you want through the Bloglovin search bar and just press the follow button ! :) Bellow the example, if you can't see the pictures well just click them.

Now, if you wish to follow my blog with Bloglovin, you can use one of the methods above, or just

simply click the Bloglovin button on the sidebar of my blog. If you do, I really appreciate it, thank you very much. :) Have a good week !*