Another day passing by. I'm still here, drawing stuff. Trying to keep myself busy. Finally, finished the drawing that I showed you guys around a week ago. Around a kilo of graphite later, here it is, the engine. It was really fun to do that.
Usually, I try to make a reference with a real object and to put it in the context of the message that I want to send out. But sometimes I just start drawing in the middle of the paper sheet. Just random lines. Started with the grill in the middle, and then extended the whole thing while keeping the radial pattern. The sad part was that I had no space on the canvas to make it fully radial. But that's why we have digital media. I just came back with the scanned drawing, cause my phone camera is... Crappy
Here it is tho
The only things that I took from the real world are the pressure counter, the fan, and the bolts. When I'm creating surreal pieces I try to make the mechanisms and the constructions look like that they can actually do some kind of work. But when you start with random lines, sometimes this is kind of hard... Once again it took me more time to figure out the details than to actually draw and render them. Today I woke up really early, 5 am. My plan was to finish it today... Started drawing with H2 pencil, staring at the paper really hard, drawing again, staring, drawing... Then filled the background in order to make the whole thing pop more. Going to try to add some sort of really soft abstract details on those places... We'll see. After that did the shading and some last minute fixes cause i had to got to the grocery store... That's another story.
I have a new hobby, guys, collecting small, short, cute baby pencils. I have thrown out so many of these, but today I made had an idea, I will collect them, and when I have enough, I will glue them together and frame them. Not sure what this will look like, nor how I will place them. But it will be cool! I promise!
Tools used: H2 to B8 graphite pencil, A4 sheet of printing paper
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A kilo of graphite.... lol
It was probably close, it is rather unique, and I could see it actually doing some form of work. It has a bit of a steampunk feel, and it's on the steem blockchain so why not. lol, it did a pretty good job as a steem engine for you steem wallet, thanks to that curie vote. I going to have to give you a follow just so I can try to catch the rest of the pieces as it comes together.
Heh! Pretty cool wordplay there! I always try to simulate some sort of work capability in my drawings. Moving, doing some sort of productive work is a reason why we are here :P Thank you!
You must have a great imagination to draw something like this. It's amazing how detailed it is. Congratulations, excellent job!
Hahaha, this sounds funny but I'd love to see the outcome, the result :D I know someone who's making mandala painting and using paper cloth to clean his brushes and once he had framed that paper cloth and sold it. Can you imagine? :)
Anyway, I have to ask you something and please don't take it the wrong way, it's pure curiosity. Why are all artist sharpening their pencils with a knife? is that better is that an artist thing? Could never figure it out :)
Thank you, Erika!
The next step is to get it in photoshop and get some pixels wrecked...
I will definitely create an article the baby pencils.
For the sharpening... It depends on the purpose of the pencil, for example, you have an 8B pencil in your hand, really soft graphite. If you sharpen that with normal sharpener you will need to do it again in 5 minutes or less, especially if you put pressure on it to get darker values. Also, you get more coverage with knife sharpened pencils because the surface of the tip is longer. If you decrease the angle of the tip to the paper you get broader strokes. I use knife to shapen my soft graphite pencils, for hard pencils like 2H or H, I can use the normal sharpener cause we're not using these as much. Not all artists use a knife. Allen Williams uses the Boston sharpener. It's a personal thing. For now, this works for me, but if I get my hand on one of these Boston things I would definitely use it. :P
as you can see on the second picture, one of the pencils is not manually sharpened :P
I thought this is the case with the knife sharpening, it makes perfect sense but wasn't sure. Thank you for the detailed reply and looking forward to your article about the baby pencils :)
No problem, Erika!
Right now I have 5 baby pencils only. The collection will grow as my drawing stacks grow. So, i have to push myself i guess :P
ohhh .. sexy mechanical curves !
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It's all about the sexy curves, mate!
Nice to meet you too, Monk!
Hello back to you super sexy @svdsdragunov ;-) 😃
Now we are getting serious again. I see a fantastic piece of art 👍
Really awesome job mate. Keep on with the drawing !
Im very excited to see how your glue pencil project will look like :-)
Thank you very much, mate! If I stop drawing... I'm probably dead, call someone to check me out if I stop posting bullshit drawings :D
It will take a while to collect enough pencils :P
Looks amazingWow i think you are an amazing artist @svdsdragunov love this piece of work
Thank you very much, but I'm just another fish in the barrel. As one cool man said once.
such an amazing artist !
Thank you, Vase! I do my best! :)
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Love it, dragu ! The design is so intricate and well constructed <3 Love your style, as always, your attention to details is second to none ! Wonderful creativity <3
Thank you, Spidey! I can't wait until I have the time to digitalize it! It will be EPIC!
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howdy from Texas svdsdragunov! sir you must be so patient to work on something so detailed and precise! I think it really looks like an engine, are you a mechanic?
lol. love the idea of gluing your tiny pencils together, that will be a very unique piece indeed! thank you sir.
Hello there!
Patience is maybe the only positive thing that I have :D
No, I have my hands a bit in industrial design and engineering. But that's not the main card that plays a role in my works.
It will take a while to collect as many pencils as I need.
Your drawings are amazing!
And I love the idea of making something with your baby pencils!
Yeah, I was just throwing them away, because I could not find good extenders. But I've got into recycling and stuff... So, yeah. Baby pencils will live! :D
Ahhh I almost forget to comment on this one XD. This is one of your best works, dragu, I like its elaboration of circular intricacy a lot. It certainly looks like an engine, however it is not something that feels coming from this world, the engine looks like an outer space technology. Very interesting and unique :D.
Congratulations on your curie vote, totally deserve it ^_^.
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Thank you very much!
You actually gave me an idea, steampunk space tech... Thank you! :P
Let's destroy some paper! Shall we? :D
And this was done entirely from pencil.... That's unbelievable. The level of detail that you managed to incorporate into the drawing must have really been time consuming. Worth it though.
I went on to makersplace too and had a look at your other works as well. I love the theme behind them. It's futuristic, dark and intense. I like it. You have an amazing artistic talent.
Thank you!
Yes, for some reason I always go back there. Loving the things that can become reality very soon, or not. It's just like technological rift walk. Since I was a kid I loved that kind of stuff :)
It's not hard to love it. The whole romantic intracisy of each creation. Reality or not they do take on some sort of life when you put so much into them.
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I hope so, sometimes I feel like I need to put more... Will get there, i hope :)
I am fan of this.
Thank you, mate! Your pieces are insane!
Salute!
Hi @svdsdragunov, greetings to you! Your drawing of the engine is very realistic and clean. How did you decide to draw an engine? :D When I see my car engine, I just see black and grey parts, never did think much of it as an art piece. You drew it beautifully as an art piece :) And I am intrigued by your small, short, cute baby pencils collection too. Can't wait to see it :)
Every piece of technology can be seen as a piece of art. Old or new, it doesn't matter. The moving parts, it's design, function. All the decisions that it's creators had to make in order to make it... The methods, research, and execution... It's magic...
It is truly magical indeed. Thank you for sharing yours with us.
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It came out nicely. And I can mostly relate to your story.
Thank you! :)
What a new hobby you have, its gonna be fun. Hopefully, you will be able to collect a ton of them, and well, you plan work out...
I can't believe you made this from just drawing random lines on a paper (while starting), its incredible. You are so creative, and I do love how much details this have and how clean your work looks.
The filling on the background did just what you wanted it to, it made your drawing pop, beautifully!!
Thank you very much!
I just have to bust my ass, drawing! Right now I collect the baby pencils in coffee boxes... Sadly I have more boxes than I will ever be able to fill up.
Welp, only the first few strokes were random, after that, I had an idea where would like to go with it. :P
Don't be too sure, you might fill them up pretty soon and be looking for more..... Hahahah!
The random stroke brought the idea, right? Well, sometimes radom stuff brings the most interesting ideas..
:D I will have to cover my walls with graphite in order to do that :D
Just the hint of an idea, after that you have to work towards the final thing. Both with meaning and detail. :)
hahaha! That wouldn't be too much of a bad idea... Well, just that it will require a little bit more work.
That's actually true! The random lines doesn't do it all, you gotta add meaning and details to it!
Indeed! Now imagine me... grinding graphite on the walls XD
lol. Okay #imagining... "grinding" doesn't seem like a nice sight...
Very nice work, and great use of the technique :)
and as always you kept a care with the details and the values.
Btw, good luck with your new hobby xD
if you get it tell us, it looks as an interesting idea to put together many old pencils to make a "new" one :)
It will be interesting for me too, to see what will come up from that idea. :)
I have an inability to leave stuff not rendered :D Don't know what's wrong with me, since i can remember I'm like that :D
Great drawing you have there! Though, around a kilo of graphite was used for that? I did not realize it could take that much for an A4 size.
So have you come up with its story behind it or is it still one of your random drawings?
I can already imagine that your new hobby of collecting small pencils will indeed be cool. Sometimes the coolest things are from what we initially think as scraps.
Thank you!
It was not that much, but it sounds cool :D
I don't have a story for that thing. For that kind of drawings, I think something like а verse or two might work. Almost songlike if you wish.
Recycling can be cool if done right :D
Oh, slow me... I did not realize that was a figure of speech. 😜
So what will be your verse or two for that drawing? You draw that beautifully just from random lines so I think you can also compose the story randomly, yeah?😊
I don't know yet. While writing a story, in most casesof the you have a third demension- Time. With that at hand, things become a bit different. There is no reason to not try, soon. When i have the time :)
Time... the most chased element on earth I guess. 😊
For some reason, no. The most wasted, and the most desired in the same beings, you can observe that ;D I'm not surprised by that... It's normal
Wasted? Hhhmm, maybe... Most desired, more probably. 😊
Hi @svdsdragunov, the work is amazing, so much details, I bet it was endless work especially working with pencils it is really taking a lot of hard time and you need to do shadings with different grades of pencils too. My full appreciation for wonderful work,
It's not a hard time, it just takes time and patience... And thinking screwing around, walking around the table, looking the paper from different angles. Thank you very much!
You are handy man, that makes it easy at home, it is a shame that nowadays we do not have such classes in school. Thank you for your reply :)
School is overrated! You have the internet. If you like you can reach out to every single artist that is alive. And if they are willing, will reply, this is so powerful. I've got the balls to do this myself recently, reaching out to people that I admire, ask them for advice. You lose nothing, but might win a friend! :P
Wow, a beautiful drawing. Your engine look like a space car engine. The drawing is very neat and clean.You really have a creative mind to draw without refer to any real object.You are an amazing artist.
Thank you! Well... We can't actually create something acurate if we have no frame of reference to use as a base, the key is to do it suttle :) that's all. And no, I'm just one of many! :P
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I really like this drawing, and I don't know why but looking at it I see a heart. Really nice job!
Yeah, that was one of the ideas, cause the heart is "sort of an engine" but soon after I was on that stage, I felt the need wanted to escape from it... So I guess you see that there :)