At the end of 2020 a female guitarist is playing something calm

 Hello! 🎸

     In the last post in this year there will be one of my aims - a female guitarist. I haven't got a clue at the beginning how should I portray her... Finally playing on the guitar make me aware which pose looks the best (and drawing a guitar was kinda problematic). 

A Guitarist, pencil and oil pastels on a paper, 14,8 x 21 cm.

     During creative process I decided to experiment a bit. I used a pencil for a young guitarist sitting on a wall and oil pastels for background. I thought about the fourth story from anime Mononoke (2007) where the grey world became lively thanks to smelling various scents.

So... That's all.

As a new aim I chose... a portrayal of a Samurai 

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(because this year's One Piece was really awesome, entertaining and inspiring... For me it was one of those rare things that made 2020 quite tolerable)

♪ Yuki Kajiura - Fake wings

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Ok, my dear readers

I wish you a Happy, Calm and Great New Year!

May your dreams come true!

🎉

the Poetic Graphics: the Broken Reverie

 Hello!

In today's entry you'll find another part of a cycle the Poetic Graphics. This poem (which original version is available THERE) was an impression of a certain event I've witnessed on a graveyard last year. I called this to mind only thanks to my notes.

the Poetic Graphics: the Broken Reverie

Relax with a Violet Crayon

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     In today's post you'll see a spontaneous drawing. From time to time I like to make some doodles because it's relaxing. To be honest I do not know if I've got a notebook which wasn't ornamented with drawings of various ladies, animals (mainly cats), flowers, ornaments, etc. Some of them happened to inspire me to create something bigger (as examples I can point at a pastel the Expectation of Shooting stars or drawing Wisp of Galadriel's hair). Yup, before them were little sketches made on margins or notebooks' covers ❤

     And yesterday I was trying to relax after baking gingerbread cookies. And during my efforts I took a paper, violet crayon and started drawing this lady.

reaching for..., crayons (violet & pink) on paper, 14,8 x 21 cm, 21 XII 2020.

 

    

      I haven't got any special plans for this drawing... I felt pretty concerned during drawing. At some point I've decided to add a pink colour.

     As a title I chose reaching for... because the Violet Lady is reaching for something... What is it exactly? A dream? A guitar? A pencil? A pen? An amazing book? Another human's hand? A cookie cutter? Well, I don't know - let this be a kind of a wiggle room.

For now, let me 

wish You All, my dear Readers

lots of Health, Love, Strength,

and Peaceful and Joyful Christmastime

against all odds!

✎ Have a Nice Day! 🎄

♪ Eva Cassidy's splendid interpretation of O come, all Ye faithful

4 in 4: In the apple orchard

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     In today's post there is a fifth comic strip of a cycle "the Four Seasons in Four Frames". 

This time story will be focused on Autumn who went apple picking with her fluffy companion. Cat's name is Wrzos (that's a polish name for heather).

     As always I was wondering what should I draw, in which situation should I throw Autumn... And - what seems pretty funny, each of ideas has got an apple theme.

     Below In the apple orchard you will find an english translation of bubbles.

Second Frame

Autumn: Wow! Wrzos, just take a look at those beautiful apples!

Rhathymia

 Hello! 

     Today's drawing shows a lady who's enjoying her free time as much as she can. She's surrounded by plants, sitting under the tree and playing with her fluffy cat. Girl is also reading a thought-provoking novel.

    Oh, and on her hoodie you'll find a reference to Sailor Moon's opening theme... Dunno why but I find this lady strangely similar to Sailor Mercury... 

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Rhathymia, pen on paper, 21 x 14,9 cm.

 Have a Nice Day!  🐾

a View on Melancholy

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     I was always interested in theories concerning temperaments... I haven't probably mentioned it but this interest influenced my way of portraying personifications of the Four Seasons. I couldn't help but assign each of them to respective humours like sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic and melancholic. Today I would like to focus on the last one of them because showing a view on Melancholy belonged to one of my aims.

So let's start with the earliest sketches with the ideas for Melancholy's portrayal.

I chose to show the allegory of Melancholy as a tired, worried and thoughtful woman. Next I draw her on paper. Firstly I wanted to use a black pen for outlines but I've changed my mind.

the Poetic Graphics: the Apathy

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     Today's post will involve another part of a cycle the Poetic Graphics with a poem from two years ago. Its main theme concerned an apathy and lack of motivation (original version is available THERE).

the Poetic Graphics: the Apathy, graphic.

    

     Below you could see the background I used for a poem. 

the Pumpkin Predicament in the 100th Post

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A Soup or a Pie?, pen and crayons on a paper, 31.10.2020.

It's already the hundredth post on an a-r-tistic blog! 

Wow, I'm quite amazed by this fact.

Today I'll show you a drawing of a young, pretty lady with a certain dilemma... 

What would You do with a pumpkin? A soup? A pie? 

Or something else?

Please - share your ideas in comments.

My dear readers, 

stay healthy and strong 

in those disturbing and uncertain days!

Have a Nice Day!

the Green Eye

 Hello! 

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     A few days ago I published on my blog with poems a post varied by a graphic the Green Eye. I used it in decorative purposes for a poem which english version is available below a mentioned illustration (original version is THERE).

     A story behind the Green Eye is quite simple. Once I made a photo to my sweet cat and then - out of boredom - I started turning mentioned photography into graphic because I've seen too much potential... I could call it some kind of "training". 

blue mermaid

Hello! 

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I experimented a bit... Again.

A graphic you're able to see below was formed from an old doodle of mermaid (I can't explain why but I sometimes like to draw mermaids) which was carried on a blue background.

blue mermaid, graphic.

Have a Nice Day!

the Poetic Graphics: the wind hidden in the breath

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     Today I want to show you another graphic from the cycle "the Poetic Graphics". A graphic with a poem I've written between the March and the April (original version is THERE). It happened because of my quite casual thoughts about the wind and breath.

the Poetic Graphics: the wind hidden in the breath, graphic.

4 in 4: Once upon a time on the beach

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Here comes new comic strip of cycle "the Four Seasons in Four Frames"! I'm publishing this a bit late because of many variants concerning one idea.

I've imagined this kind of situation: a child is playing on the beach, wind "takes" something from him and a Summer returns this thing to this particular child. 

Finally - through asking yourself about various details, I developed a story with addition of a straw hat (definitely too much "One Piece"), a stone and a cat built from a sand (well, it doesn't need to be a sandcastle, does it?).

 And Once upon a time on the beach is special in some way... It's the first time when comic strip from series "4 in 4" doesn't contain bubbles!  

  Frankly, I wanted to make this one without a speech balloon from the very first!

Introduction to the Poetic Graphics

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     In the beginning of this year I created an account on Pinterest (it took some time to encourage myself to do this). There I left some of my works plus something I haven't published on my a-r-tistic blog yet. And I mean a short cycle consisted of five graphics (so far) with english versions of my poems. 

      Today I'm gonna show you one of them.

the Poetic Graphics: dark humour, graphic.

Lady in the cloud of smoke

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     Lately my interest in japanese culture increased much more than ever. A portrait which I'll present in today's post is an evidence of this. Well, just look at this smoking lady.

in the cloud of smoke, crayons on a brown paper, 18 x 12,9 cm.

an Arctic Fox found something new

 Hello! ❄

After my long absence I'm leaving here a work with a snowy theme. Well, it's so hot nowadays so it wouldn't hurt to show you a drawing of an arctic fox which is curiously gazing at Galanthus Nivalis (yup, I drew "the trailers of the Spring" again). 

something new, pens and pencil on paper, 26 x 19,8 cm.

4 in 4: Nothing special

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   It took me so long to create the next comic strip of "the Four Seasons in Four Frames". At last I can present you (ekhem, quite late) the third one called: "Nothing special" concerning the personification of Spring.

I decided that the main theme of this comic should be boredom. Firstly I intended to show some polish custom characteristic for Spring... And I came up with different idea because of a sudden lockdown (which was kind of a... strange, apathetic time).

Each of the frames has got a strip in the right upper corner with the name of a month (march, april, may, june).

Below the comic strip you will find a translation of a bubble.

In "the March Frame" Spring looks a bit asleep and she's still covering herself in her yellow cloth (it's a reference to my previous work "A Spring" which you could see THERE).

In "the April Frame" I drew cherry blossom in the background (yeah, my soul is weak when it comes to Japanese culture and hanami).

a Sky from my Memories

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Lately I was having problems with a project for the next comic strip concerning Spring... And that was a reason why there were lack of posts. I apologize.

For now I decided to show you a graphic which was made a year ago. I experimented a bit. In the end a undermentioned work looks quite surreal and nostalgic.

a Sky from my Memories, graphic.

The basis of a Sky from my Memories was a photography of a sky made during Summer.

Hope you'll like a graphic from this post.

Have a Nice Day!

hanami in purple vibes

Hello!

Today I want to show another graphic which was based on my previous work Sutekina tsuitachi o. If you aren't aware yet this japanese phrase means "Have a Nice Day!"

hanami in purple vibes, graphic, 7.04.2020.

This graphic was born from a pure experimentation. I used a fragment of a photography in which I captured the early version of Sutekina tsuitachi o. At first a usage of purple colour wasn't intended but as the experiment goes I liked this effect much more!

the Purple Day

HELLO!

Today I want to publish not only a graphic but also a poem. As you noticed everything in this post is purple.

It's on purpose because 26th March is also known as the Purple Day. So this is a day of increasing an awareness of an epilepsy in the world.

trembling state of her, graphic.

Inspired by Vermeer

Hello!

the Other Side of a Girl with a Pearl Earring, graphic, 22.03.2020 r.

It is a graphic which happened quite spontaneously. It was based on my last year's sketch inspired by Girl with a Pearl Earring painted by Johannes Vermeer. Obviously during drawing I couldn't help but do it in manga manner (still see some One Piece vibes ❤️). 

This graphic I'm dedicating to my friend P.P.

Have a Nice Day!

Plus - stay health and strong nowadays!

4 in 4: the Worries of Winter

Hello!

   I'm so sorry for my tardiness with making the next comic strip about 4 Seasons. Fortunately I overcame a few problems and made it before the first day of spring.

   I'm presenting you the second comic strip of "the Four Seasons in Four Frames". Below a comic strip you will find a translation of bubbles.

   Please, let me know if you like it. You could also leave here some ideas about 4 seasons.

1st Frame:

Well, winter goes on and on, and there's so little of snow. For a while it'll snow and then it'll quickly melt. Some people claim that Spring has already come... Pff! It's a fat chance she would like to!

2nd Frame: 

There's no doubt that it warmed up. With this kind of weather ALMOST everything melted.

Beryl Stapleton

Hello!

In the first words I apologise - I didn't make an another comic strip from the cycle '4 in 4' to the end of January. Lots of things happen but I hope I'll publish the next one pretty soon.

Recently I've got a chance to read Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was a great book and also pretty inspiring. When I stopped on Beryl Stapleton's first appearance I couldn't help drawing her. So I made a sketch on 10th January 2020.

Beryl Stapleton, crayons on paper, 14,7 x 10,3 cm.

Summary of 2019

HELLO!

Happy New Year!, gif.

Blog exists more than 4 years and I've decided to create a post with a summary of 2019. Well, I've never thought of this as a necessary act. My decision was dictated by few things which are worth comments.

• This year I published 21 posts and - so far, this is the biggest amount of posts published during one year! 
• I made a lot of adjustments in order to improve blog's functioning. I mean, for example, adding an option "Click there to read more" to longer posts, adding a graphic to the headline, correcting tags and various texts, etc.