Japanese Landscape

I was looking for landscape picures and found this one. I`m a big fan of Japanese culture and I love nature so this picture inspiered me. I made an acrilc painting. The brighter parts were drawn first and the black parts in the end. I`ve drawn the torii (traditional Japanese gate) with a fineliner. I tried to add some sunbeams but it's hard to see them, maybe I was too careful in this part. Also the waterfall is a bit to bright, I think it's not realistic that you can see the water so clearly in the darkest part of the picture. What I find also dirsturbing is that the water in the river is not structured, there is no life, no movement and there are no reflections at all. But overall I really like that picture, I like that calming effect and the harmony in it.

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Nude drawing

Every artist should be able to draw nude drawings. However it's really hard to get the proportions right, the human body is such a complex thing... you could spend much time studying the anatomy just to learn to draw. I have no idea about anatomy, so I took pictures from a drawingbook as reference. I decided to draw female nudes here but I have also drawn some nudes of men, I will show them in an other post :)

Two girls on a poppyfield

This painting shows two girls (technically me and my little sister) in a poppyfield. When I was about 8 years old we moved to another house. Before my parents created a garden, a lot of wild poppies grew behind the house. It was the perfect playground for my siblings and me. A few days ago, I found this picture in my photo collection and thought it would be a great motive to paint. So I took my watercolors and this was the result.

Wallpainting

This is my first wallpainting. It was much fun to do this artwork. I've drawn it in the old house of my grandmother, she died 2016 and since then the house was empty. This selfportrait is 2.30m hight and 1.72m wide. It took 2 days to paint it.

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