New Artwork after Six Months

With great difficulty, after about half a year, I jumped over my own obstacles and, emerging from a longer art-block period, drew or painted a new digital picture. This is my first hobby graphic this year, and I wanted it to have a bit of a traditional effect. So I turned to a pastel-like direction. Creating with pastel chalk was one of my favorite techniques before my digital graphic era and is still very kind to me. However, currently in my home environment I rarely have the opportunity to actually work with pastel chalk, because I would have to create at least my own workshop corner for that because it is one of the most smudgy techniques I know.

This illustration depicts a tulip in its small environment with a noble simplicity, which I created based on a photo I took a few years ago in spring. The reason for my choice of theme - besides its actuality - can be attributed to several small reasons: I had previously tried to create a new dryad portrait, but after all this time it turned out to be too much work, I didn't like the partial result achieved, so I put it aside and took two steps back: I started a new image based on reference and took an environmental theme, without depicting faces or characters.

And even then it wasn't easy, because I had to realize that drawing a flower is not simple at all, in fact, for me it's like drawing an actual portrait: in this case the face of the plant. But what caused the real difficulty was a bad habit of mine: I tend to overthink a picture and get lost in the details.

So at one point I thought that I won' be able to create a new drawing again. At such times, I usually grab books or visit the website of my favorite artists, and observe what they do better and more naturally. And I realized that I was wrong about even the choice of brushes. (Seriously, as if art wasn't a thing I was doing for about thirty years...)

Then after a few puffs and complaints - which my husband had to listened to - I sat down again, and finally reached a level that I wanted with this picture. This was the condition of my last newsletter: I decided not to write until I had put together a fresh, current illustration that was acceptable to me - or as one of my art teachers would say: "tolerable". Please accept it with love ^^