The wood framing looks good. I like it. However, the white mat is too small. Next, I'm going to have to buy mat cardboard and a mat cutter and make my own mats to fit the artwork.
I have already ordered a logo stamp and once it arrives, like in one week, I will sign and title the work.
I'm making them available for sale until I have completed enough pieces to make a coherent series.
I'm happy with the graphic simplicity and overall results. The style I picked is perfect, and the possibility of continuing this as a series for future exhibits and sales energizes me.
I will sign the work once I order and receive my logo stamp and am ready to frame it.
Soon I will add a new tab to my blog as a gallery for completed works.
I'm surprised I'm working this efficiently after so many years of neglecting classic art. This means I still have it. The results I'm achieving are encouraging. I may jump into acrylic-on-canvas art; that's what I plan to do, but only after I complete this series on paper.
Once I complete enough drawings/paintings I'll try to get a local gallery or a type of place, like a restaurant or a hotel, to exhibit the pieces. I'm thinking $700 ea. Unless the gallery/place thinks otherwise.
Keep visiting my blog for the painting process steps.
Believe it or not, using grids to draw is a medieval technique. Albrecht Dürer made good use of it. Since I’m an academy-trained artist, I also tend to use drawing techniques. My favorite is the grid. There are well-trained artists, capable of tracing anything just by simply giving a good look at it, but I’m not one of them. I have to use a technique, a process.
Today, we have computers and design software. I employ these advantages to isolate my subject and trace a grid around it. In this case, my grid corresponds to my Strathmore paper size at 11 x 14 inches. This is my visual reference.
I just received the graphite pencils. This kit came with some pastel pencil samples and some charcoal pencils and sticks. They look in good order. Nothing is broken.
The 12-inch geometry set and a T ruler for tracing my grid will arrive tomorrow; as well as the 48 pastel pencils. That should be all to start working.
I just received some of the art supplies I ordered. I now have 24 Strathmore pastel papers in different colors. I have the support board to substitute the art easel and some art tape to fix the paper on the board.
The pastel pencils, mechanical pencils, and some graphite on the image are old.
I'm still waiting for another kit of charcoal, graphite, a few more pastel pencils, and a larger separate kit with 48 pastel pencils I ordered from Amazon.
My art method and themes were resolved before any purchases. I had to comply with my own requisites: Not too expensive or complicated to produce. Not too large either. If possible make it responsible. So I decided to use me as a model, my arm and hand, and pick veggies and fruits we buy through the weeks and use them as models too.
I'm creating a series of drawings/paintings about fruits and veggies. I produced many photographs and videos with food as the subject in the past; this isn't new.
So, every drawing I complete means the portrayed veggies were bought for our consumption and will be used for art too. That makes it responsible and conscious.
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I'm having this idea of a fantastic world in another dimension tainted with human trash. The characters are entirely my conception, from sketch to vectors, but this (test) background is a text-to-image prompt from Adobe Firefly. This is helping me visualize what I want. Of course, as mentioned in previous posts. The final art will be my own creation, although I will heavily take references and ideas from AI.
All characters are my concept and creation, but the background ideas/inspiration will be taken from Adobe Firefly AI images.
Backgrounds are 50 percent of a comic book story. Of course, you have to have a great story and good characters, but backgrounds are what solidifies, and glues all together.
I'm not afraid or embarrassed by Artificial Intelligence images. They can save me time and inspire me to complete my work.
In this post, I'm disclosing that my final backgrounds will be entirely created by me; general ideas of the environment, and color styles will be inspired/copied from Adobe Firefly images.
In this uploaded testing image, I'm playing with some Adobe Firefly images to set the mood, and style of the environment. I will test some more before I start creating MY OWN background art.