days may have crumbled, with the night star ushering defeats past to light, but with that mustard seed of faith, sown in love’s heavenly blue battlefield, we shall rise forth, to mirthful morning glories.
A very wonderful New year to you and yours I pray, with all yearned goals coming to pass🙏🥳. As always, do remain blessed.
Like always, I came across my recent portrait study on Pinterest, all monochromatic, and the wisest option was to approach this drawing using graphite pencils on a vellum surface. What particular piqued my interest in this study was my long-dreaded fear of going too dark in shading and drawing drops of water. I found this crying child or Ninõ (as dubbed by Pedro Luis Raota, the actual photographer, in 1970) encapsulating all I have always feared in drawing; thus, I decided to take on the challenge.
Initially, things went smooth, but I had not even gotten to the teardrops and my 8B pencils were already toast because of the number of dark areas I had to cover; however, I had to improvise with my other pencil grades.
Although likeness suffered a bit, one key takeaway from the drawing was that the bigger the size, the better the details you capture in your portraits, so these enabled shading the teardrops fairly easy.
Overall, I was somewhat pleased with the drawing, if, for anything, its successful completion and I look forward to taking on more expressive portraits before the year runs out.
Lastly, do imbibe this quatrain I wrote as inspired by the drawing, and take it with you as you enjoy your lovely days ahead. Cheers!
As her world spun still, dreamy days flew by, and the Earth slowly grew giddy.
With defenses now laying bare, space-grey goblins came scything down her core, and every milky taste she once had of her galaxy became a forlorn memory.
Darkness crescendoed and, alas, from her seven siblings, she became estranged.
However, there lived a being; a bright beaming being, who always stood firm by her, and ran circles around her adversities, thence, illuminating her dimming mien, and after three sixty six days of twirling and courtship, a new child is born.
A Happy New year to you, and may all your wishes yearned come true🥳🙏.