Avatar Neytiri - Oil Pastel Drawing

in hive-148441 •  5 years ago 

Here's an oil pastel portrait of Neytiri from Avatar that I did back at school as part of my art project Apart from the white line in the middle where the sketchbook pages joined I like the vivid colours and the way it finally turned out even though oil pastels can be hard to work with.

I have not got the process photos however, I started with basic block colours and then added more tones and details as I got further into the drawing. I blended the tones together by going over the basic ones with another colour but did not do it too much as it can get messy. The drawing took several hours to do and was done over two A4 pages.
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Thanks for checking out my post and for your support! :)

--Ian

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nice post

Why do you post this twice? You posted it yesterday..

I haven't posted in GEMS community before, still working out how all the communities features work. But will stick to one post in one community from now on.

You should only choose one community for each artwork/post. If you post it in several communities like this, it might be considered spamming which might result in downvotes.. if someone picks up your post and likes it, he/she might cross-post it to another community but you should only choose one community which is best for your post.

Can you share your post to other communities by cross-posting or is that considered something for the viewers of your blog post to do? Thanks for informing me.

Well, I personally wouldn't do it as some whales could downvote it to prevent spamming. If you are looking for the community which supports artists I would suggest you to post in OCD.

They appreciate artists and you could potentially be spotted by their curators. They however co-operate with other communities (you can find which ones on their discord).

I've heard somewhere that someone was suggesting to have the possibility to post to at least 3 communities at the same time but I don't know if this is something what is being worked on right now. I guess that people are focusing on the current situation of the blockchain instead of development at the moment. This is just my personal opinion :)

If I would spot some news I would let you know :)

Edit: Your artworks are great but you need to post some progress photos and then you might get noticed faster. The more time you and effort you invest into a post the higher the possibility that someone will notice it and support your work :)

Thanks, I will stick with OCD and yes you're right I try and post process photos but when sharing old artworks I didn't always take them so it's too late but it would show more of the journey. :)