I had an ATC swap where the only rule is I have to draw, no collage or scrapbooking. Well, my first subject was WALLE. I watched the movie the other day and it never ceases to amaze me that I laugh and smile everytime. That little animated robot has more character and personality then some people I know. So I had to draw him. I used pastels (as you can see by the nice big black smudge mark on the top left) and I’m relatively happy with how he came out. My second ATC was inspired by a postcard I got in the mail the other day. It was pretty and pastel, which the eiffel tower, swirlies, and birds. I really liked the style and I tried to copy it, to some extent. I’m surprisingly bad at swirlies, I can’t get them to flow right. Anyway, the postcard is hanging on my wall, I might try to draw using that style again, we’ll see. The Paris ATC was made with colored pencils. I think it would have been more fun with pastels. Oh well, you live, you learn.
One thing I do like about pastels. They really do make me feel like a real artist because my hands end up looking like this:
Even if my drawings don’t turn out well, I at least look like an artist.
Sorry it’s crooked….I didn’t realize I had scanned it that way until I had mailed the ATC. And it didn’t pick up the shadows and light colors as well as I would have hoped.
