Jul 4, 2011

Drawing Of Loki

Loki
This is a devotional drawing of Loki I created this morning. I used pastels on black paper, but I had to balance out the colors with my art software, as they were far too muted at first. Licensing is Creative Commons Copyright: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA). If you wish to print out a copy, you may have to lighten the picture up beforehand. My printer definitely had some trouble with it.

Pastels seemed very appropriate for a Loki piece. They're not the most precise medium and can blur in unpredictable ways. Pastels were also a childhood favorite--I got all sorts of joy and amusement from them, which is exactly the sort of thing Loki approves of. In any case, the earlier strokes felt like starting off with a mask, a blank and inhumane visage. This gradually gave way to human features and skin tones. I didn't plan this piece out ahead and had some tense moments with it here and there, but I'm very happy with the results.
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  1. SannaJuly 5, 2011 at 12:39 AM

    Pastels were always awesome in class, but they only let us use them about twice a year, because they got EVERYWHERE. Over hands and clothes and floor. But everyone loved them because they were so bright and vibrant.

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  2. SayjoJanuary 15, 2012 at 10:01 PM

    Great job, I've noticed that a lot of good work comes from unplanned art.

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