Art After a Year

I hadn't done any art in a year - a frustrating side effect of depression - and then, around Christmas, I was given a few new sketchbooks.  So, one night, I started sketching again.  It was so much fun.  Between Christmas and New Years (around there anyways) I did the following:

It felt great to finally do some art again!!! <3

Nov. 16, 2014

This is what I decided to try to draw at around 12 am last night:

I followed a tutorial that I found on Youtube.  You can find it here.

DeCosta Series

DeCosta Series: 

Done with Prismacolor pencils

Starting in mid July 2011, I started drawing pictures of my brother-in-law, DeCosta.  He had passed away that July 15th, and that is when I really started drawing.  I hadn't done much drawing before that, but I really took off.  I drew all the pictures in 2011, based off of photographs that I had of him or photos I found on Facebook.  

I continued drawing picture after picture of him: 

This picture was drawn with charcoal.  It's the first time I had ever really experimented with it.  

Finally, my pictures started to look a bit more life-like, after I started focusing more on shading, that is:

 Finally, my favorite picture of the bunch, was done with Prismacolor pencils, both graphite and watercolor.

DeCosta was wearing my sister's glasses and making a funny face at me.  I captured this beauty with a cell phone and then drew it from that.