Beauty in Brokenness 🏵️💮

When we are broken for whatever reason, our decision to accept it and move on, keep going and be better is beautiful already.

I enjoyed drawing her for the art explosion contest. It makes me create and connect with my subject. What makes her beautiful despite all this, is that she is keeping it together.

Specially made for @juliakponsford's ART EXPLOSION #19 CONTEST.

✏️ Title: Beauty in Brokenness

✏️ Medium: Pen and Ink

✏️ Materials: sketchpad, pencil, 0.05 pen, regular ink pen, signo white ink pen and colored pencils

✏️ Size: 8 x 10 inches

🎨 PROCESS PHOTOS AND TIMELAPSE VIDEO

• Sketch
  
  I used random references i found online

• Ink it
  
  Initially used 0.05 tip pen

• Darken shades with regular sign pen
  
  As you can see the flowers outline are darkened, some areas where hair strands meet and where the shadows of neck are darkened

• Color
  The eyes have orange shades of green and yellow. The pollen of the lily is red.
  

• Highlights
  Add white for the eyes
  
  It looks like this now

• Shading and highlights
  Shade it with grey and black and also use a white pen to highlight face, neck and flowers.
  

Timelapse Video 🎥

The finished Art

Sevilla 2017

Thank you! Enjoy! 💮♥️🏵️