Decadence

I finished this drawing yesterday, she's titled "Decadence", it's 3B pencil over paper and 18 x 24 inches. It's probably one of the biggest drawings I've made willingly so far. That I can remember, anyway. I've definitely been wanting to make bigger drawings, the 18 x 24 inch drawing book is the biggest one I have right now. Here she is: Here's a couple of close up pictures. So that's "Decadence", I really like how she turned out. The only thing is that I used some stupid Mongol pencil for the sketching part and I don't know what it is about that pencil that was having some kind of issue with the Faber Castell carbon, it was kind of a pain in the ass. That's all for today. Please remember to like my page in Facebook, that's where I put updates of things much more often, here's a link: Gabriela Handal Arte Thanks a lot for reading <3

Flared dragon scales on my skin

This drawing started with a phrase in my head: "Dragon scales on my skin". WHERE the phrase came from is a mystery I'm not even going to bother with.
I could say the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, because I saw it more than a month ago and it's still reverberating and rippling inside; but I know it's not from there.
I don't particularly care for dragons, I don't identify with them like a lot of people do, I'm not fascinated by them in particular, I think I can count with one hand the amount of times that I've drawn a dragon.

The phrase then became: "Flared dragon scales on my skin", like when a cat's hairs stand on end when they're angry. I had the specific pose in mind, and I knew that I didn't want her to be entirely covered with scales, I just wanted her to have a patch of them on her back, like some kind of carapace or shield. I also didn't want to use watercolor or acrylic, like I usually do when I do colored drawings, I wanted it only to be pencil and colored pencil.
For the scales, I used the colored pencils and then on top of that, I shaded some more with the pencil. Which was a 3B.

So here she is:


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Closer

This is one of my most recent drawings that isn't commissioned work and it's based off of the two women that are joined by the hair in the "Closer" video by Nine Inch Nails.
I've always found it curious (several of the images in the video, but yeah) and you don't really find images of those two specifically in the internet. Maybe I wasn't patient enough in looking for them, but you definitely find gifs of a lot of other parts of the video.
EITHER WAY, I took the time to screencap a ton of things in the video, the two women included, because I wanted to draw something very similar to them.

There's also two women joined by their hair/head in the "Push It" video by Garbage and I can say there's a little bit of those in this drawing, too, I did want part of the hair section in the middle to be kind of like wrinkled, wet fabric. Like the girls in the Garbage video.

So here you have the finished drawing and close ups of both of the girls.

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