Hi

My name is Hilde, I live in the Netherlands and I draw a lot. I hope I can earn some money "when I grow up" on my drawings :p (I'm 34 btw haha).

So I'm practicing a lot, and tend towards Illustration mostly. I'm also taking Oil painting lessons at the academy here in the neighbourhood.

Today was the last day of the daily drawing challenge. 28 days of drawing on a row. What a lovely thing to do. And it really gives a boost if people like your work. Also doing this in a community like this gives a little bit of an extra push to continue and to finish it. I miss perseverance somewhat most often. I think its too hard, and I just wont start it. Also always looking for perfection and fear of failure are holding me back. But this is just painting and drawing for your own fun. Being busy in a creative way like drawing really is the journey for me.

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My plan:

My daily practice - image 1 - student project

Day 14: Piggy

Today on the last day of the challenge I drew this piggy. Its a money pig with a drawing on the belly of my birth card. I love the thing. My husband got one when he was born. And the kids both got one aswell. So my husband gave me one for my birthday 2 years ago so I would have one aswell <3. I love it.

The linework is pretty decent. I'm really happy how it turned out. I think overall I should do more with watercolor. It's a medium I dont use often but I quite like to draw with it.

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Day 13: Pancake plant - take 2

I ended with my takeaway for today: Just keep going, keep practicing. Don't let the fear get you. I've got a big anxiety issue with starting out, taking up the pen. But also in other parts of my life. Its perfectionism, fear of not being good enough. It's really annoying. And at some point it really took over control in my life. (Like not being able to finish my bachelor degree for example). I've been taking up drawing again and the more I draw, the better it goes, and the easier it gets to start drawing again that day. This workshop combo of 28 days drawing has been helping me with this a lot. Thanks a lot for getting this workshop together @marienoellewurm & @ohn_mar_win . 1 day to go for me :)

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Day 12: Glass of tea

Today I've been drawing a glass of tea. I wanted to do it with a gel pen, but I couldn't find any. Oh well, I took a stabilo pen for it. In blue :) They draw pretty easy I think. I like it. I had fun drawing the glass and I think I got close to getting a good linework together. I stil have some learning to do on angles, but the curves of the lines were really good! Maybe the handle should be a bit more rounded. But overall I'm really happy with this one!

Oh and I drew only 3 minutes. The tea was still hot when I ended my drawing ;) hmmmm

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Day 11: Pair of bottles.

This was quite hard to draw. Lots of glass, lots of details. But I did it with a brush pen and it went quite easy.

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Day 10:

The cat scratching post was pretty easy for me to draw. And I tried to give it a bit of texture aswell. I was going for ink and a dip pen, but I couldnt find my dip pen :( So I used a 001 waterproof marker pen. It gives somewhat the same effect. I really love the shadows in this one. My lines are a bit wobbly and the angles of the circles / ovals are off. But in total I like it very much! I really enjoyed painting it.

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Day 9:

Felt tip pens are not my friends :P. Well, they are, a bit. Anyway, I should not forget that they dont have an erase button. That is what is really bothering me in this drawing. But I like the placement of the weights. They are quite nicely distributed on the block. And I like the lines of the wooden block itself.

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Day 8: Christmas tree

The christmas tree. The cat again wanted to be in this picture. He is very curious and there was a new object on the table! I totally loved to paint the tree with watercolor and pen. It was a big enjoyable painting. I love the overflow of the colors, the little lights :) Makes me happy.

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Day 7: Speaker/radio

So hard to draw those curved lines! It was a struggle to draw this for me. But the second one was already a lot better: And I need to look really closely to the angles of the lines.

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Day 6: Books

I love the curves of the open book. Harder to draw then you would think on the first view.

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Day 5: Turtle bottleopener

What a nice thing to draw, I really love to draw it. But playing with the colored pencils let me fall into all the details. So instead of rough forms and lines and shadows, I wanted to color it all. So I did the colors, but I didnt really get any shadows in. The time was waaaaay too short. :P

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Day 4: Pancake plant

I enjoyed it a lot to draw the plant. But I ended up only drawing the leaves. Because I'm not that much used to watercolor. So without drawing the whole plant, I think I did quite a good job, specially on the last leaf, because I got the colors right :P

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Day 3: Knife, fork and a spoon

Today I drew a knife, fork and spoon. I had great expectations from the paint marker (never used it before). But it just felt like a big edding permanent marker with a big point. Hard to get any details in it. I really expected more from it. Maybe my expectations were too high.

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Day 2:

Today I did a tea egg. With watercolor. I enjoyed it a lot more then I thought I would. It has nice shapes, an interesting structure/texture and some straight lines aswell. I also had more then enough time with 6 minutes. I actually did two drawings in that time. And I still had some time left over. Water color is quite quick :)

Oh and the take away today was: look more closely to the angle of the lines and the lenght of an object. I was to quickly to draw it without looking good enough. I drew what I thought I saw instead of what I saw.

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Day 1:

I follow the combined workshop, so this is somewhat my 15th day of daily practice.

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Hilde Hendriks-Vos

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