Wreck This Journal: Draw Fat Lines and Thin

Not much to say about this page... It's just a crazy staircase done with a 'B' pencil. I sketched the lines and filled them pushing really hard.

The 3D effect is very easy to achieve if you have a shape in mind.
I really like surrealist drawings and I'm planing on making something like this but even bigger and crazier for my living room.

Stay tuned!

Wreck This Journal: Make a Paper Chain

I have a passion for music and I love a few heavy metal bands, so I thought the lyrics 'Breaking the Chains' by Dokken, seamed kind of perfect for this page.

I sketched the heart with a blue ballpoint pen and I did the shading with a blue pencil. The background was done smudging a brown pencil.

To make the chain, I cut the strips, folded and twisted them to give a more realistic look. And then I painted random strokes of silver, copper and black.

A simple page but it has a lot of meaning for me..

Wreck This Journal: Fill this Page with Circles

When I thought about circles instantly came to mind Victor Vasarely (op art), Georges Seurat (pointillism) and Pop Art.

And because I couldn't decide which way to go, I combined everything in a single drawing.



So this is a 'pop art' girl visiting the museum.
I did everything with markers and free hand, no sketching involved that's why it's a little bit bumpy.

If you don't know Victor Vasarely I'd recommend to check him out, his art blew my mind when I was 14 years old and that's what got me into creating things and later into studying art history.

Wreck This Journal: Create a Drawing Using a Piece of Your Hair

This is one of my favourite pages,  I used my cat Satan as a nude model. I sketched him quickly, I covered the drawing with PVA and gradually I added small pieces of my hair. 

But don't worry, I have an undercut so I do this on weekly basis. The good thing is that now I've found a fun thing to do with my discarded hair.

To colour this in I used acrylic paints because it dries rapidly and it covers everything.

For the cat I used:

• Burnt Umber
• Burnt Sienna
• Cadmium Yellow Deep
• Titanium White 
• Phthalo Green
• Black pen

Background: 

• Phthalo Green
• Titanium White
• Pencil for shading

I like to combine unusual colours to experiment and make something that it's not expected.

Wreck This Journal: Trace Your Hand

I drew this page while having a conversation via skype, I live far away from my family and most of my friends, so I can easily spend a few hours chatting. 

The polaroids you see, are actually doodles of real pictures that we were talking about that day.

The last holiday with my friends, my first flat in London, etc.

I used a pencil to sketch everything, a blue and a brown regular color pencils for shading, purple and silver metallic pens for the nails and a black pen to trace the final lines.

I've always had difficulties to draw hands, even to the point that I would leave every single drawing with unfinished arms. But I realized that it was more of a mental block rather that lack of ability. And this happens to a lot of people, we need to forget about the object and just focus on drawing lines, sometimes it helps to draw the negative space between objects.

Wreck This Journal: Crack the Spine

At the beginning I was a bit lost, I didn't really know what to do with the journal. So I decided to choose every day a page at random and 'force' myself to work only on that page and focus.
But, as you may now know, that didn't last long...



I'm the kind of person who starts a 100 projects at once and then gives up each and every one of them little by little, that's why it was so important to focus.

So the 'Crack the Spine' page, I did a quick sketch of a (anatomically incorrect) broken spine, I know, very original... But I did crack the spine of the book, I opened it to the middle and pressed hard.

Teddy Bear painting

Hello! Today I wanted to share with you my water colour Teddy Bear painting.
I know it's not a painting that you could hang on a museum... but I try...

The idea was to represent a two faced society, where everything "strange" or different is not necessary evil and maybe you have to beware of the common people.

Well, I hope you like it! And share your own paintings, tips, techniques... in the comments below