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@muzikmama, haha that’s completely understandable. I normally don’t do as much crafty stuff like that either but that’s one I can get behind. 😅
Thank you so much for liking my drawing! That’s one of the few completed charcoal/pastel drawings I’ve done. Your drawing is so beautiful, really, really well done! I’m sorry, I forget if you said, but how long have you been drawing? That’s Cillian Murphy, isn’t it? I sometimes have facial recognition issues. 😂 Yeah, I think the only thing you could do to improve it is darken it up a bit and maybe add more shadows and such, fill it in more, but it’s really lovely as is, too.
This is the last non-uke drawing I’ll share for a bit, too. It’s the actor Eddie Redmayne, done in MS Paint.
The next thing will be uke related, promise. 😂
That’s so friggin’ cute! So special to pick up that beautiful uke in person and meet the The Uke Kings themselves. Congrats again @joe150! 😊
@jbmills07, very, very lovely playing and fun to see both your puppo friends, along with Ziggy of course! How many doggo / catto friends do you have… total? Have we seen them all? 😅
Congrats again to @joe150, so amazing to win that beautiful uke! And everyone did an amazing job playing this month, lovely to listen to. 😊 Happy New Year to all! 😊❤️🎊🎉🎆🎇
Sorry I got a bit carried away with that reply. I get overly excited about creative topics. 😅🥺🤐
@muzikmama, welp, guess I’m getting myself a late Christmas present then! It’s going to be one of those uke-painting kits. You’ve sold me with “wall art,” that’s exactly what I was thinking.😂 That’s really cool, I love handmade things like that. I want to paint one with a cow print / theme for my Wisconsin-born love of cows. Oh and I need a cheese one too! I’m an adult. 😂😭 Would you ever get one of those? If so, would you share it here if you painted it? Ha, thank you, first I have to make the drawings / writing exist for those little “collab” projects. The hardest part of any project is starting and finishing it. 😅
Yes, agreed, really appreciate Andrew creating this community and also going along with all the nonsense. 😅 And also putting up with many of the cringey things I’ve done and said. 🥺😖😅
You’re welcome and thank you for all your lovely contributions to this! So much fun. I’ll have more uke-centric arts soon and again anyone who would like to share their (uke) arts here, feel free! 😊
Happy New Year to all! 😊🎇🎆🎊🎉🎈🥂
@johanna2509, no worries about the delay! What is the subject you’re studying if you don’t mind me asking? Drawing with a grid is indeed tedious, but if you want to be really accurate without tracing, it’s good for that. I have only drawn with a grid a handful of times and not with my digital drawings (I’ll attach a charcoal / white pastel drawing I did using a grid method to this reply at the end). That’s so sad, I’d love to see that portrait, but I understand if you don’t want to share. 😅
Some people “hate on” tracing but it saves so much time to get to the fun / important part, which is creating a more completed drawing with color and value and all that. I know professional artists who trace just because it saves so much time. They can create the sketch without tracing but choose to trace simply because it’s faster. But whatever the reason, I see nothing wrong with it. 😊
Your drawings are so beautiful! My favorite is the dragon. I love that so much. That would make a very lovely tattoo, or did you already get it that way? I actually have an idea for a ukulele tattoo; I should draw that out, even though I’ll never get it as a tattoo. 😅 It’s so much fun to create art based on shows and other things you find meaningful like that. That drawing of Celeste is very cute and well done. I’ve liked to make drawings from movies, The Lord of the Rings was one I liked for a while for that. Also, celebrities just because they often take really beautiful, artistic portraits of celebrities that make for fun drawings.
Those uke backgrounds are so cool! I love that. I’ve never done anything with 3D modeling but it looks really neat!
Thank you for your kind words about me drawings! That was kind of my “main thing” for a while but I like to do too many things. 😅 Thank you so much for taking the time to share your drawings, they’re absolutely beautiful! 😊
I’ll be back with another uke drawing in a little while–of my imaginary ukulele tattoo. 😅😂
But here’s the drawing I did using a grid; it’s a drawing of one of my photos (I have too many hobbies, yet still too much time on my hands… 😂):
@anikali, gorgeous! I love how jazzy it sounds. So beautiful, thank you for sharing this! 😊
@muzikmama, oh my gosh, absolutely amazing! I can definitely see that you got the idea behind values / shading. That looks really good! But also that’s just hilarious. I love that it ended up atop your tree. 😂😅🎄💚❤️
The other uke art I want to do also might take a while. One is a project I still want to do with @jbmills07 and one is another art project I’m hoping I can coerce Matt to help with in a small way, but I haven’t asked him yet. 😂
Maybe I’ll create something small in the meantime because those other projects will take a little bit longer and I already know this week / weekend are going to be non-stop insanity. 😂🎄🎀
If you have anything else you’re working on please share it here. So much fun. Again would love to see other’s (ukulele) art, too!
Oh wait, one more thing. Did you know that they have ukuleles on Amazon that you can assemble and paint yourself?! I’ve wanted to get one of those for so long but couldn’t justify buying it. It may sound like trash but boy would that be fun to paint on a uke… Maybe at one of my family’s painting parties coming up I’ll do that instead of a 2D painting. 😂
@robinboyd, really beautiful work! I really love the one with the stone (?) in it. Lapidary? I’ve never even heard of that, but it sounds neat! 😅
@muzikmama, that method of drawing faces using the lines is a really great way to practice proportions and getting a sense of facial structure and facial features and things like that. I definitely have practiced drawing faces like that before a lot, partly because it’s really fun to do. 😅
So, I have done that, but when I’m drawing a portrait I want to finish, I look a lot at the “negative space” to get a sense of how big to draw the overall figure, which is just basically the background; the distance between the edge of the drawing and where the figure starts. It’s hard to explain, hopefully that makes sense. 😅
There are also other ways you can measure, like using a pencil as a guide. This video explains it super well: https://youtu.be/BavOGXGcR1o?si=MDM0THJtbaFYPB6g
I also do that, but after a while of measuring that way, you get better and better at imagining those lines without using a pencil, but it can always be good to check if you want to be sure, especially when you’re first starting the drawing. Thank you for saying I have a good eye, I love to draw, I should do it more, too. 😅
With the uke strings, that’s a good example why measuring the proportions initially can be so helpful. But I think your drawing turned out very lovely. I think it’s true that a drawing can still be really great even if it doesn’t exactly match the reference. That’s part of what makes visual art fun, too, is that you can modify in that way. The same goes for playing uke.
Oil pastels are tricky. Kind of better for looser drawing styles IMO. Another thing you can try is charcoal and charcoal pencils. They come in black and white and in color. They can be really fun but really messy. 😂
Here’s my uke edited to look like a sleep paralysis demon, trying to bring this back to uke (haven’t finished the other uke drawings yet, lol):
@abster, agreed with everyone else, such amazing talent in someone so young! Beautiful playing. Such a gift and so precious indeed. 😊❤️🎄💚🎀❄️ Happy Holidays to you and everyone else here, all the other performances were so beautiful, too! 😊
@robinboyd, that’s so cool! Awesome that you don’t have to tote unfired pots and things around and you can do it at home! Maybe at some point you could take pictures of your setup or at least more of your work! 😁
@muzikmama, haha, no worries about that! My technical knowledge about pretty much all of my creative hobbies is surely lacking compared to a lot of people. I kind of go more based on feel and replicating what I see with most creative things. I think it’s totally okay if you stray from the reference; I actually think that’s really cool. Ha yes photorealism is a w totally different challenge. 😂 I think that’s a good brand of colored pencils. They are tricky though because they can be waxy and it can be harder to get fuller colors. Ha thank you so much for that! Visual art is just another thing I love to do. 😂
Haha! For a second that seemed right. That is kind of a pianolele. I saw a guy on YouTube who made an actual pianolele, wonder if I can find that.
Same!! Anyone can share their art here even if it isn’t directly uke related. Or other things too like @robinboyd shared. Doesn’t just have to be drawing or painting. 😊
@muzikmama, that is so beautiful! I think you did really great adding color. That definitely adds another level of difficulty, always, because then you’re not just thinking of value, but color-matching and things like that. 😅 What kind of pencils are you using? Another thing you can do, carefully, is add more pressure to make the values darker. I would practice doing that on separate sheet if you haven’t done that very much before though. Try going from the lightest pressure to the hardest you can get (without hurting yourself or the pencil). 😂 You can do that in a scale from the lightest pressure to the hardest, as if you’re shading in a rectangle (if you don’t know what I mean, I can send a sample). That’s just my thoughts on that, since I’ve done a fair amount of drawing in my life… most of my life in fact, though I stopped for long periods here and there due to reasons. I hope you don’t mind me suggesting that, but that’s one thing I learned from taking art classes in high school and experience, is how to get a range of value. 😂 But the form you created is so, so good. It’s perfect. So many people struggle drawing people and getting things like proportions correct and you nailed it. 😅
I think I love both equally, digital and traditional mediums. I’ve kind of gone through phases of doing both, depending on what I’ve had going on in life. Digital is great because it’s practically way easier to do, you have all the tools right in front of you with no mess. I really just haven’t had the space to draw with traditional mediums for a while but hopefully that’ll change very soon.
Look forward to sharing / seeing more! This is such a fun side tangent that we’ve managed to link to uke playing. I do think one creative outlet can enhance another. 😅
@leb397, ha! Thank you for saying so. Perhaps you’re right. 😂💕 And thank you! I’ll share the other two ideas once they exist, of course. But now I actually have three ideas… 😅
But here’s the other thing I already had finished. The story behind it is, one day when I was thinking about all the different “ukulele combo” instruments, such as a banjolele and guitarlele, it got me wondering what a pianolele would be like, since I played piano for a large chunk of my life and wish that such an instrument existed. 😅 Hence, I created this prototype of the “pianolele.”
Attached: first, a closeup of what the top looks like; and, second, is how it would be played, by standing atop a small staircase and tilting it against yourself. All very realistic and safe. 😂😅
I sent this to Matt a while ago (I’ve sent him too many bizarre things) and he said that the keys should be the same notes as a ukulele, which was my biggest mistake: I had all 88 notes of a piano broken up into four 22-key sections, but again he was right; it’s missing too much of the “ukulele” half of the instrument.
I have too much time on my hands. I know that. 😂😳
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I realized I didn’t answer you fully earlier, @muzikmama, I do the digital drawings freehand. When I’m drawing with real pencils, I have used a grid before to map things out better, but it’s still all freehand. No tracing, but it’s totally fine if anyone draws that way, obvs. 😅
@muzikmama, that drawing is gorgeous! Very well done indeed. Do you keep it a sketch or ever add color to it? Again, really well done! How often do you draw?
Thank you so much! In some ways digital drawing is easier. It can be easier to keep the drawing clean and yourself clean. 😅 But it has limitations too, like having less control over the “material” and drawing tools in some ways, such as delicate/more refined pressure control that you’d have with your hand and a pencil. I’m sure there are drawing programs now that are a lot like drawing with a physical pencil or brush and look super realistic, but I still love MS Paint too much. 😅 I use the touchpad on my laptop to draw or my finger on the touch screen, but I’ve been thinking of getting a pen tablet sometime, hopefully soon. Thank you again for sharing! 😊
@leb397, thank you so much, my friend! 😅💕 When you’re an introvert and single most of your life, you get to have a lot of hobbies. 😅😂 At least I have. I have more besides even the obvious two. 😅Oh I was going to say that I have a few more ukulele-related arts to share soon. Two of which are just ideas, one already exists but I don’t have it on hand. 😅
@robinboyd, ha, thank you! I also sent the comic to Matt, but I’m not sure if he’s seen it yet. Not sure if it’s clear but it’s suppose to be him in the comic with the slug. 😅
That is so beautiful! I love that. Do you have a wheel and such at home? Do you take it somewhere to fire it? I’d be pretty surprised if you had a kiln, but it’s not impossible. 😂 I’d love to see more pictures if you have them! I actually remembered you specifically saying you did pottery, so it’s funny that you posted, lol. Thank you for sharing! 😊
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I already posted a few of my paintings in the December challenge thread awkwardly (sorry), so I’ll share a few more of my digital drawings here:
1. Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins
(Done in a Facebook drawing program that no longer exists called “Graffiti”)2. Audrey Hepburn
(Done in the old version of MS Paint)3. Strawberry
(Done in the slightly newer version of MS Paint)MS Paint is just a generic drawing program that comes with Windows that sometimes allows you to draw pixel by pixel, but I love it because it’s very simple. Also I already posted the strawberry, but I can’t remember where. Now all the drawings / art will be in one place. 😅
@muzikmama, thank you so much about the balloon! I’m pretty proud of that one. 😅I created a thread for art in the forum “uke talk”! And I figured out a way to connect it to uke-playing (explained in the thread I created). 😂 You should totes break out the paint! I think it’s cool to see the other artistic things people here do. You can share any drawings you have there, too, I’d love to see them! I’m sure others would too. 😊
