Piece: Pixie painting... and more

I wasn't kidding when I said I've been drawing a lot lately. I have like five drawings to go - about. But I figured I'd save space and time if I jammed just a few of my favorites into this one post.


Fairy Painting

Materials:

A4 sheet of paper
Pencil (to sketch out the drawing) - ©Faber Castell
Q-tip (for shading the sketch, just to remember areas that need more shadow)
Watercolor Paints - ©Royal Talens

I have to admit, this is absolutely one of my favorite pieces of art I've ever done. It started out like this. My creative juices weren't flowing well until my friend told me I should draw a character. I thought Tinkerbell! But of course not ... well, I'm not sure why I said 'of course not' but I just did. So I decided to sketch up a pixie.
The sketch didn't turn out so great.. so I just kept it as a draft and reference for my final copy. I drew (not sketched) a pixie and it was a total success. But it had no background. Well, coloring a neat background that won't ruin the whole beauty of the drawing is not easy. But painting is! This part was pretty difficult though, because I worked pretty hard on the shading and the detail on the actual pixie, especially the hair. I tried my best not to completely wash out all the details with my newly bought water color paint. I succeeded - in most parts of the painting..

My Watercolored Fairy Painting!

I messed up on the hair so I just painted in the whole thing black in spite of all the detail I did while drawing the hair. One bad thing you should NOT do that I have done while doing this piece was using regular printer paper -.- (well, now that I have drawing paper available I'll be sure not to do that again!). If you're doing this sort of art, you should always use either sketchbook paper that you can rip out of your sketchbook later on, or just buy some thick paper. 

Ice Dragon Zentangle

Materials:

Black 0.5 mm pen

A4 sheet of paper

So this is a drawing I made with pure pen (not pencil) and paper. Alright...maybe second puff of cloud required scissors and glue to cut out and paste on top of a little..ahh..mistake I made while drawing this. (Well, not I necessarily, but my sister. She's 3 years old, you can probably guess what she did.)

Your first impression is probably that I took ages to make this. Well, yes, it did take over a day (I draw about 1-2 hours a day, not 24 XD) to complete it, but it wasn't a necessarily thought provoking task to complete, and the designs came naturally to my mind, so no, it was not a challenge drawing this. It did, however, take a lot of hand-energy filling in half of the patterns on the paper  x_x. I don't think Zentangle-ing is my type of art. <--- (That doesn't go for my friend though. Aleina is obsessed with Zentangle-ing! You should check out her patterns, they're x100 better than mine)

I had originally wanted to draw a dragon, but then I decided to try something new and Zentangles came to my mind!

Please comment, I appreciate feedback!

-Mai