Introduce Myself To @slothicorn - Part 1:3

I joined Steemit.com in September last year. I was holding Steem before that but I left it on the exchange instead of registering my wallet. I was still pretty noob - That’s back when I thought it was normal for a third party to control my net worth.

For this one I used a No.2 pencil - A2 paper - Paper stump for blending - 4B graphite for shading - 6B graphite inside the nose and around the eyes - 4 Crayola’s (tan, light brown, mahogany, peach) - White gel pen - This Photo I found on DuckDuckGo:

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The title said part 1:3 though? Part 2 - Wednesday: I’ll draw what the sloth is clawing into on another page and cut it out. Then I’ll cut away about 1/4 of the paper the sloth is currently drawn on (you can see my faint lines) and stick the next one under the sloth’s claws. Part 3 - Friday: I’ll draw a third piece that ties all three together. I’ll use that third one to do some overdue shout-outs, I have a list of people who deserve one. But what’s Part 1 all about? And who is this @slothicorn I’m introducing myself to? Glad you asked

One of the artists I follow here is @pegarissimo. He had drawn several of these unicorn-looking, teddy bear things. Initially, I didn’t recognize it as a sloth, most likely due to the spike protruding from its head. In all honesty, I thought @pegarissimo was drawing his own imaginary world. Perfect! I followed him Then I started noticing the #slothicorn more often. So I did some research: 🔍

I wish I could have this one back

@slothicorn is a community of artists who promote cryptocurrency through quality artwork. That’s my simplified explanation A detailed explanation Can Be Found Here. Follow @slothicorn and your feed will be updated regularly with quality art. I used the hashtag for a couple of my recent posts but I knew it wouldn’t count until I did a formal introduction. I think I can cross that one off the list now.

My friends call me Arts. The very first post I did here was my Introduce Yourself to Steemit back in September. I did the lone sketch on that one, too. Prior to that, I last drew something in my 9th grade art class when I drew a woman’s face. I got an A on it actually. It was my first year of high school and it was required of me to participate in an “elective.” I chose art because I only had to take it for the first half of the school year and the second half was drafting. Drafting wasn’t quite as boring. That was 1990, nearly three decades have passsed since then.

I don’t know why I was so against drawing all of these years - I’ll try not to do that again. I was obviously unaware of the meditative factor drawing provides. Maybe I just took it for granted? I spent a lot of time exploring alternative creative avenues like DJ’ing and writing - From there I expanded into some keys and synth’s. I never got comfortable hearing my voice through the speakers though. Thanks but no thanks, Mic.

These days I don’t thumb through records. What I have noticed lately is myself thumbing through the local art store - I’m in awe every time I go to that place. As I was clicking on all of the amazing artwork here, I started noticing something they all had in common - Descritpions: Paper sizes, pencils with numbers and letters, blending tools. I was lost. It’s a whole new language I started pulling up Steemit on my phone prior to entering the art store so I could ask questions accordingly: “What’s A4 paper?” “What’s a graphite?” “What’s this.... what’s that?” I discovered it’s easier to just show them my phone - “This.” Between that store and this community, I continue to find people who are not pretending. Thank you, you know who you are!

Final

And thanks for providing this art community, I’m happy to be a part of it. Everything you see from me is current, I don’t have past sketchbooks or drawings to share with you. I’ll show you the pages of this sketchbook I’m working out of though, one page at a time, as they fill up:

When I look around at all of the amazing artwork on here, I find myself appreciating the ones with progress pictures a little more so I’ll continue to post those with my work. Thank you all for your support, I appreciate it more than words can draw.

Sincerely,
@dandays

Introduce Myself To Slothicorn - Part 1:3
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