Each of these drawings were done in 2003 but DeRidder High School students.
I love all the detail that was put into old buildings.
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Art of Concentration: Day 14
Let’s relax, create some beautiful pieces, and work on our concentration skills.
The Art of Concentration rules are:
- Draw lines on a page. Straight line, squiggly lines, circles, squares, triangles, stars, it does not matter.
- Color every other section a different color. Start anywhere. Use any color. Typical you will only have a black pen or a pencil, those are fine.
- If you desire, use multiple colors. Sections of the same color can not touch.
Today’s line drawing:
The line drawing are create in Corel Draw which is a great tool for creating anything from scratch. I do not use Photoshop for these drawing, because it is not a photo. After I am happy with the drawing, I export as a Bitmap. It would be time consuming to create each section for coloring in Corel Draw. Microsoft Paint is used to color the bitmap. If I wanted a gradient of colors in each section of the drawing, I would do that in Corel Draw.
Example 1:
Example 2:
Example 3:
All of the line drawing, done by hand, were done 14 days ago, and one was colored each day. It provided me time to work on other projects.
Art of Circles
Click here for a PDF version on today’s line drawing. You can also download any of my line drawing from the Coloring Page.
Art of Concentration: Day 13
Today’s line drawing is made up of hearts.
The Art of Concentration rules are:
- Draw lines on a page. Straight line, squiggly lines, circles, squares, triangles, stars, it does not matter.
- Color every other section a different color. Start anywhere. Use any color. Typical you will only have a black pen, or a pencil, those are fine.
- If you desire, use multiple colors. Sections of the same color can not touch.
My first color choice:
My second color choice:
Today’s hand drawing:
Hearts Apart
You can download a PDF version of the line drawing on the Coloring Page, or click here.
Art of Concentration: Day 11
Today’s Art of Concentration experiment did not go well. Not well at all. Below is the line drawing. It is a nice line drawing made up of spirals, or swirls, or curls, whatever you would like to call them.
It is impossible to use only two colors in the drawing and still follow the rules. Using three colors is possible, but difficult. Spiral are meant to be continuous.
The Art of Concentration rules are:
- Draw lines on a page. Straight line, squiggly lines, circles, squares, triangles, stars, it does not matter.
- Color every other section. Start anywhere. Use any color. Typical you will only have a black pen, or a pencil, those are fine.
- If you desire, use multiple colors. Sections of the same color can not touch.
The colored drawing came out nice, but there were several restarts. That is what is good with coloring on the computer.
PDF version of the line drawing created in Corel Draw is available for download on the Coloring Page or you can click here.
Art of Concentration: Day 10
For today’s Art of Concentration drawing I decided to go with a more traditional approach. By traditional approach I mean; it was the way I normally drew and colored these type of drawings. They contained either straight lines, squiggly lines, or both.
The Art of Concentration rules are:
- Draw lines on a page. Straight line, squiggly lines, circles, squares, triangles, stars, it does not matter.
- Color every other section. Start anywhere. Use any color. Typical you will only have a black pen, or a pencil, those are fine.
- If you desire, use multiple colors. Sections of the same color can not touch.
The line drawing:
In a meeting, a classroom, or a waiting room, you will typical only have a pen with one color – below is today’s line drawing colored in black and white.
You may be part of the special group that has many different colors pens on hand. The largest box of Crayola Crayon contains 152 different colors. The largest tin of Prismacolor pencils contains 150 different colors. And, it is very easy to fine a set of 100 different color gel pens. Sometimes, I have the urge to use has many different colors a possible in my drawings, like the drawing below.
I messed up today’s hand drawing, then I messed it up again, and then I messed it up a third time. I should have been simple enough, but I was listening to water draining and was wondering why it was so loud. I gave up and turned the tile over and started again. Since today’s theme was traditional, I decided I would do a sample of my normal typical drawing.
Notice the curvy lines. There are several lines that look like the cursive letter “L”. Drawing the cursive letter “L” is a good pattern to repeat on the page. The letter “S” and the music symbol Treble clef are also good to use. Just keep the line flowing from edge to edge.
What I learned today with my mess up, coloring a section with a marker and going over it with a white Sakura gel pens, gave it a nice color.
Sea of Algae
PDF version of the line drawing created in Corel Draw is available for download on the Coloring Page, or click here.
Art of Concentration: Day 9
Today’s Art of Concentration drawing is more typical of the drawing I used to do in meetings and classes. It wasn’t anything too complicated, just some lines and occasionally other objects.
Remember you can do these types of drawing on any size of paper from “Post-It” note size to letter size, or larger. If you create them using ruled paper, you already have some lines premade.
The line drawing:
The Art of Concentration rules are:
- Draw lines on a page. Circles, squares, squiggly lines, it does not matter.
- Color every other section. Start anywhere. Use any color.
- If you desire, use multiple colors. Sections of the same color can not touch.
The first object created was the flower and than squiggly lines added. Notice the top left of the circle in the middle of the page. There are more than two section that are touching. The rule “Section of the same color can not touch” will not work here. To solve that dilemma, I used multiple colors.
The flower petals were done in a deep red and white. The center and background was done in black and white. It doesn’t even look like a circle. That is why I named today’s hand drawing “Squid”. Looking at if after is was done, it looked more like a squid then a flower.
Squid
Squid was done on a black Studio Series Artist tile using Sakura gel pens.
The line drawing was done in Corel Draw and exported as a bitmap to color using Microsoft Paint. I decided to use three colors and black on the second drawing with white line.
Click here to download a PDF version of the line drawing. All of the line drawing are available on the Coloring Page.
Art of Concentration: Day 8
I must be crazy for drawing so many lines on a page and than coloring them. And, on top of it all, doing two drawings. I must be crazy. However, they were so much fun.
That is probably another rule of Art of Concentration – have fun. Enjoy what you are doing.
The Art of Concentration rules are:
- Draw lines on a page. Circles, squares, squiggly lines, it does not matter.
- Color every other section. Start anywhere. Use any color.
- If you desire, use multiple colors. Sections of the same color can not touch.
The first drawing was a small drawing. It has a simple flower in the middle with a bunch of lines going through it.
There are some many colors that could be added to this line drawing. The first example started out as a simple black and white, but I could not leave it as that. The gray background the flower jump off the page.
The colored version is very busy, it draws your eye all around the drawing. It reminds me of a out country kitchen pattern.
Below is the hand drawing of the x-treme flower. It was done on a Studio Series Artist tile with Faber Castell Pitt Pens and Crayola markers.
Boxed Flower
Even though this Mandala started out as a sketch, I thought I could not do it justice on paper, so I put it in Corel Draw, increase the size to 8.5″ squared, and drew circles to the extreme.
From the center, a beautiful flower appeared. There are so many way this could be colored, so many possibilities. After creating a bitmap and using Microsoft Paint to color it, below is the results at my first attempt to color the Mandala. The black background made the color more vibrant.
AofC Mandala
PDF versions of the today’s line drawings are available on the Coloring Page for downloading. Starting with today, I will put the newest drawings at the top of the page.
Art of Concentration: Day 7
Sometimes, with art, you need to break the rules to create amazing pieces.
The Art of Concentration rules are:
- Draw lines on a page. Circles, squares, squiggly lines, it does not matter.
- Color every other section. Start anywhere. Use any color.
- If you desire, use multiple colors. Sections of the same color can not touch.
The extreme line drawing.
Rule three does not work for black and white drawings. If you follow the line from the bottom right corner to the center, there are occurrences of one section touching two sections. It may be more obvious on the black and white example below. Even though the rule is broken, you still can get lost in the drawing, or dizzy.
To follow the rule, I used multiple colors on the one below.
This is the original had drawing done on a black Studio Series Artist Tile with Sakura pens.
The X Divides
Click here for a PDF version of the line drawing. It is also available on the Coloring Page.
Art of Concentration: Day 6
The ability to create something beautiful is a wonderful experience.
The Art of Concentration rules are:
- Draw lines on a page. Circles, squares, squiggly lines, it does not matter.
- Color every other section. Start anywhere. Use any color.
- If you desire, use multiple colors. Sections of the same color can not touch.
What started out as a page with a mess of lines, can turn into something beautiful. Here is the line drawing from today. If you look closely, you will see some circles.
First, the line drawing was colored using just black.
Next, I colored the line drawing using four colors. Remember the rule, the same color can not touch each other. If the colors were placed differently, it could had a completely different look. See how different it looks from the black and white version.
Here is the hand drawn version:
Circle Mess
Sometimes, when the black lines gets close, you will need to assume the blank space between the lines, e.g. lower right corner.
Click here for to download a PDF version of the line drawing. PDF copies of the line drawings are available on the Coloring Page.
Art of Concentration: Day 5
Take a look at the Circle and Swirl line drawing shown below. This drawing presents an optical illusion. Why? The circles appear to be ovals. They are circles which are drawn off center from each other that gives the illusion.
The Art of Concentration rules are:
- Draw lines on a page. Circles, squares, squiggly lines, it does not matter.
- Color every other section. Start anywhere. Use any color.
- If you desire, use multiple colors. Sections of the same color can not touch.
I normally do not color in the order as shown in a rainbow. I normally color using the color wheel. I will pick a color. Sometimes I go around the color wheel, at other times I will go across the color wheel (complementary colors). Sometimes my colors are in harmony and sometimes they are contrasting.
On the Circle and Swirl line drawing I used colors that were next to each other on the color wheel. Except for black. Black is not a color, black lacks light and color.
With this hand drawing, I did not break rule 3. None of the same color sections are touching. It was done on a Studio Series Artist Tile using Sakura Gel Pens. Colored with Prismacolor pencils.
Color Goes Round
Click here to download a PDF copy of today’s Circles and Swirl. It is also available on the Coloring Page.
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