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Another apple watercolour painting

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Pencil art of a Starking apple.

This drawing made me realise what your personal style actually means, and why is it so hard to achieve it.

Artist Journal trip comes:

Now, I have been struggling with art for a while, besides the burnout and the everyday busyness I had the feeling that there is a level of skill that I cannot surpass. I tried many things, went to art classes, drawn a lot routinely, asked for criticisms, but nothing.

After all this, I asked, what is drawing and what is a personal style.

Drawing is 2D depiction of 3D objects, or concepts. And with the traditional painting knowledge (first video good example) that too much detail, and a lot of useless lines don't make a painting good. Therefore, I tried to think of a way to apply this in drawing. After all, to draw it is not easy to avoid lines, curves.

Then I thought about 3D, and topology, when we simplify the surface of objects with polygons. Think about any 3d software like Blender.

Italian Renaissance painters had so much time, they did that on paper: (Wiki link of Mathematics and art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_and_art 2025.06.22.)

And so I imagined the object of my drawing, an apple as a 3d object, but opposed to the renaissance artist I used loose lines, like panning to trace the faces of the 3d apple in my mind. Using reference as it is a study.

This is the simple imperfect sketch, trying to understand and study the 3d surface in 2d.

Then comes the toning, same as before I tried to follow the direction of the surface with my hatching. But for the intensity I applied the knowledge of the way the eye and the reflection of light works. (fourth video for more in depth)

As for the main topic of my essay, personal style.

Personal style is not more than your personal though process, and artistic decision making while doing art.

For me it seems thinking in 3d, topology and shapes is a big game changer. And this meant for me to surpass my past limitation. Because, yes, yess I can imitate, a style or that which has been taught to me, but It is better to use those as building bricks to build your own way of thinking.

Thanks for reading to the end, have fun drawing!

Useful youtube videos:

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Starking apple painted with aquarelle

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cold, cold, hot

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Let's resurrect Art Nouveau!

Lilium Tigrinum - Tigger lily

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Hope you like the teddy bear I made from modelling clay. It was a lot of fun!

To be honest, i wanted to make something from polimer clay, but i didn't want to spend so much on fimo, and the local oven baking polimer clay is always just as expensive, and even hard as rock.

Anybody, have you got any recomendation what should i order instead of fimo?

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Mysterious

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sketch

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photo study

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Rust and moss

I'm still experiencing with the vegetation, it's quite the challange to not make it so very plasticky. I will upload other variations of this artwork.

I thank my beloved mutual @merlinsniece for filling my notifications with lovely messages in the tags. Gave me a great push to draw in my freetime.

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Art Comissions OPEN, info under the cut:

Payment:

ONLY PAYPAL

Prices:

I accept other currency, paypal converts them anyway

Sketch- 5$, Fine drawing- 10$, Full rendered art- 20$

You can chose the medium: digital, pencil sketch, watercolor (+3$) or ink (+3$), but you will get the digital version only, because posting it would be expensive and troublesome.

tips are highly appreciated :) after i sent the finished piece

Important, read before contacting me:

I uphold the right to deny request, before payment.

Full upfront payment

PROCEDURE: After I accept your request, I will start the comission after you sent the payment and i verified it. As soon as I have a rough sketch, I will send it back to you, to get feedback on changes or to continue the proccess. When I finished I will send you the full resulotion image file. I will not make changes after the finalisation proccess, but I will update you before that.

Send me reference photoes/ descripsion/silly sketches! The more the better. It greatly improves my proccess, and will be more satisfying for you.

NO NSFW

My strongsuits: art nouveau style, pets, header images, profile pics, decorating designs. If it needs, please send the ratio details so the image fit for you. But will accept other topics, but be considerate, that those are not in my confortzone, but will improve on my skillset.

You can post the finished piece, but give me credit, and make a link to my blog. Do not sell it. If you agree, i will post it under my blog as comission and with watermark.

After accepting the request i will expect the payment in 3 days MAX, after that i will move on to other requests.

Time:

I work quickly, when i accept your request i will say a rough estimation how much time it will take me to finish it. I will communicate with you, so to see and be part of the proccess.

The drawing itself may not be a long time, but the email excanges, or eather of our time schedules may differ, so both of us has to be patient to some degree.

Contact:

If you contact me, it means you read the information above.

alma.art.comissions@gmail.com or here at tumblr

Examples:

Sketch with colours and shading:

Fine drawing:

Full rendered art: (the dragon one, is a phone backround for phone, if you request similiar thing send the ratio details)

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Cat Nouveau: Round and golden

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Cat Nouveau: The Mighty Orange On The Tree

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I made a lovely living diorama out of things i could find around. Ramble under the cut.

My maing goal was, to have some living organism in my living space, which is tiny. Just like the moss, which needs minimal maintenance, all the while giving me the maximal joy. So here i am with a mini moss garden in my painting cup, because i used everything i already had.

For this DIY project I had to find myself the best living organism which are various type of moss from various places. For example, the best sources were the wall of the local church, a few moss from the bark of a tree in the local park, and another bunch from the sidewalk. As for the rocks i found them on the streets too. I put paper tissue as a bed in the cup, so the moss could grab on something. The tiny benchy boat was a gift from a local 3d printer owner.

Unfortunetelly, this project is addictive, so i already plan to plant another mini terrarium.

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