lumengs' blog

I have been drawing a lot before. I initially believe that it was already my calling. My interest in the arts began when I am just in my elementary years. I am captivated with the paintings of my uncle, who is graduate of Fine Arts. By using a charcoal he makes drawing and it was really cool for me way back then in the 80s. He can drew pictures of people almost perfect. He can easily put up his own studio I said to myself. I am just amazed by the realism of his paintings. I tried first copying pictures, images and any kind of stationary things. That is the only way I can draw. I cannot draw moving objects or even objects that I don’t have anything to copy. But I think it a good new start for starters like me.

At first, pencil portraits are the only drawings that I can only make because they’re simple to do of pencil portraits. When there’s an error, I can erase it. I bought several pencils just for the purpose of trying that one would work best for me. But actually, I don’t have the knowledge on what are its uses. I also tested other forms and other surfaces to draw. But the only surface that I haven’t actually tried is in canvass. I used other mediums like watercolor and oil pastel. I used to design a number of watercolor portraits but I don’t see any progress in my skills.

I have also tried doing pop art. I tried copying a portrait using pencils and then put some colors in it that actually not the real color of the picture. I gave life to it. It provided me a pretty good feeling that making pop art portraits might be the one that I really like. I tried it applying on other surfaces, even in shirts and in our wall. But if you are doing things like that over and over, you will lose interest in the long run…. or maybe it is just me. After that, I tried going back again in making pencil portraits but now I tried more of Realism. It really appealed the artist in me in perfecting my skills that almost left me when I lost interest before.

I painted some works, but I know I will lose interest in doing those later. I am taking my luck by doing cartoons at present. Got lot of influence now because of the media. I just hope that this interest will stick to me for long.