The world around us is 3D, but the photos we capture, or the drawings/paintings that we make are 2D. Among time, people tried to change the 2D surface into a 3D one, or more exactely to give the illusion of a 3D one. This is how the stereoscopy appeared, which refers to any technique capable of recording three-dimensional visual information or creating the illusion of depth in an image.

It is amazing how you can hide a 3D image behind a 2D one. The last trend in the 3D images are the 3D glasses witch allows you to see… of course in 3D. So I’ve played a little with the Photoshop and some of my drawings, and I’ve created the above collage. The objects are not 3D, but there are 2 different viewing layers. If you move around you’ll have the illusion of the cat following those 2 lovers.

Another type of 3D images are the 3d stereograms. For those of you who can do the eye cross trick (see here video explanation of how to do this) and see 3D, click on the image below and see something very familiar with this website So, what did you see?


*image made on five.flash-gear.com/stereo

I just discovered the BBC documentary named “The secret of drawing” – four part series, presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon, which explores how drawing has shaped our lives. I really recommend this documentary! See it in the videos bellow.

A friend from UK, Roy Simmons, recommended me a very interesting website DocuWatch – a website full with videos about art. If you are interested into art history, I would also recommend you the Smarthistory.org – which is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook.

Now, the more I learn about drawing, the more I realize I know so little..

Part 1: “The Line of Enquiry”



Part 2: “Storylines”


Part 3 – “All in the mind”:


Part 4: “Drawing by Design”

Hi there! I have started to be busy with the final exams from my master degree, but as always when I have exams I also have a huge urge to draw There is no time for this in the day, but there are nights.. so this is what I did in the last 2 nights. I really love the picture and how the drawing turns out. The reference is again from Paint my Photo website.

I don’t know yet what to draw in front of his eyes.. something that he is looking at so curious. I have some ideas, but I don’t know yet. Any suggestions?

He wrote on his blog about how excited was to receive my drawing.

Here is what he said:

David Pringle (@dpringle on Twitter) had a brilliant idea one day that when shared, soon spanned scross the globe: Art Swap 2010. Artists from all over the world trading their work with one another on the honor system.  The honest, tight creative community online honored David’s inspiring idea and committed to it. I was one of the fortunate participants!

So it was upon my awaking to a knock on the door this afternoon, that I received my art swap piece. A very well packed artwork from Hodoroaba Ancuta Iuliana ( @julliaH on Twitter & Facebook Fan page ) comes all the way from Romania.

Upon opening the package I was immediately awestruck at the beautiful art that sat before me.

Included was a very kind hand written letter sealed with wax. The seal had been imprinted with the letter “j”. I was very careful and manged to open the letter without breaking the seal.

The humidity here is very high today so after I shot these photos the piece was wrapped back up to protect it from curling. I’ll pick up a approprate frame this week to put the drawing in so I can display it in the main foyer for all visitors to see and enjoy.

I am still waiting for the piece of art that should have to arrive to me. When I’ll have news about this, I’ll update this post

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Yupyy I have finally received my art swap A very interesting little painting. It’s from Allison Martínez from Puerto Rico. I didn’t knew her, but now I do, and more than that, I am able to see live one of her works.. and own it. Of course that the first think that I did was to enter her website and see more of her works. She has an interesting style of painting. Every painting is small (as a dimension) but it has a message, it has always something to say, to communicate. And that’s a think I always appreciate to an artist.

Here are some of her works (go on Allison Martínez web page to see more):

And here is the painting she sent me:

Thank you Allison very very much! I really like it! Be sure that I’ll keep it save

A special drawing from many points of view. First, the photo reference that I choose is a very nice one. It belongs to Deby Dearman, and I took it from Paint my Photo. Secondly,this time I tried to mix a little bit some different mediums: graphite pencils for the girl, graphitint for the rose (mixed also with graphite) and charcoal for the background. It was not as easy as I thought, specially the charcoal, which tended to smudge my drawing hrr

I hope I’ll take a picture too to show you the difference of textures which all of these mediums give. Because the graphite is shining and the charcoal no, looks like the girl is pumping up from the paper.

This drawing was more like an illustration. The only reference that I had from the client was their head. The rest of the body I had to invent it or use several references from internet. It was very interesting to draw this, even if I almost didn’t knew how it will look like in the end. But seams like it toured out nice and they look like some real gangsters from 1920, as they wished.
No, her abdomen is not wrong she is waiting for a baby, so I had to make the hole family. Seams like there are 3 gangsters and not 2

I am taking part to an art swap organised by David Pringle. (: Here you can see more details about this.
It’s the first big art swap that I am taking part of. The first one was on pencilportraits.ning.com but it was a little one made between members. This time seams like there are involved many many artists from all over the world I am so excited to see what piece of art I will receive.

Here is the list with all the artist involved in the current art swap, but I heard that it will be another one in 6 months. So stay tuned!

My art work is the one above, with the lovers. It’s not so big because I have to deliver it far far away Now is packed and in a few minutes I go to the post office. I really hope that the receiver will like it.

Another wallpaper with a nice quote no offence! but I just like how it sounds. Choose the screen resolution from bellow and set it as your own wallpaper.

1280 – 800
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*Frame image from sxc.hu

This drawing is so far the most interesting I have done. The photo reference was a simple one, with this young couple sitting on a table and having fun. I changed their clothes and gave them a victorian look. So all the environment has changed, and they travelled through time some ages ago receiving a new style. For sure that from now on I’ll make more portraits like this.