In my last post I talked about my path to becoming an illustrator and how learning art fundamentals was something that I needed to implement to improve my drawing skills; nonetheless, the question is: Where to start? There are so many facets to art fundamentals that it can get very confusing.
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Drawabox | Learning illustration with Drawabox
A couple of years ago I noticed I couldn’t draw some things that I wanted. In that time, I used to draw #dtiys (draw this in your style) that I found on instagram created by my favorite Illustrators but when it come to make my own illustrations from scratch I was totally unable. The discomfort that I felt by this made me feel frustrated and incapable of drawing anymore so I decided to delete my Instagram account and stop making illustrations.
Continue reading “Drawabox | Learning illustration with Drawabox”Munsell Color System + Free Printout
This week I have been researching about how to improve the Values and Color in my drawings. This reminded me that a couple of years ago while I was studying Color Theory I found this cool chart that displayed the Color Wheel in a 3D way and it was called the Munsell Tree so I went back online and I looked for that image. I found a couple of them but in the end I chose the one that best helped me understand the concept, which I found in the encyclopedia Britannica:
Continue reading “Munsell Color System + Free Printout”How to create a color palette from a picture
Today, in a magazine I found a picture that I loved:
And I said, what can I do with this? Oh yeah save the colors for an illustration later and this is the way that I did it:
Continue reading “How to create a color palette from a picture”Mapping to understand Figure Drawing
I have been learning about Figure Drawing because I would love to learn how to draw bodies and Mapping is one of the techniques that has been the most helpful to understand how to place something on a white page.
Mapping is just selecting points as in image 1 and 2, connecting them and create a map on a white page as shown in the images below. I would recommend you just to repeat and practice and you will understand little by little more about mapping.

New Video: Mossery Unboxing Sketchbook
Hi blog bunnies!
In this video I share the unboxing of a Mossery Pastel Sky Sketchbook that I got back in 2018, I don’t own it anymore because the paper it has wasn’t what I was looking for to use with my watercolors but the cover and the brand is so beautiful that I wanted to share.
Back in 2018 Mossery created a Zine which I showed in the video, if you want to know more about the Zine just go to this link: https://www.mossery.co/blogs/news/to-inspire-and-encourage-inktober-2018-zine and if you want to know more about the artists that collaborated in this project you can go here: https://www.mossery.co/pages/mossery-inktober-2018
Do you own a Mossery sketchbook? What do you think about the paper?
Paola
Why drawing is so difficult?
I always thought drawing was easy because I did it since I was little but when I started doing illustration more seriously I noticed that what I saw in my head wasn’t as easy to represent as I thought it would be. Then after drawing and practicing for months I stopped because I couldn’t understand why I wasn’t improving 😡. So I started researching on YouTube and found this video that explained that it isn’t just about practicing…
How to prepare myself to create a new drawing or illustration
I recently was wondering how can I prepare myself to improve my drawing process and these are the videos I found very useful:
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Test of all colors of Copic Multiliners 0.5, 0.3 and 0.05 on a Leuchtturm1917 Sketchbook
Copic Markers tested on different types of papers and sketchbooks plus color wheel
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Image 1. Copic on different papers |
Hi grrrls and guys and everyone in between!
I decided to share some test I did on different types of papers and sketchbooks with Copic Markers (Sketch Series) in this way maybe you’ll find the type of paper that adapts the best to your style and technique.
- 0 Blender
- BV000
- B00
- 065
- 018
0 = I added number Blender (#0 in copic naming) the mix with colors and see the results