"Girl with a toy elephant"

Today, I'm gonna present to you my drawing depicting a girl with a toy elephant. At first I was amazed by my talent but with time I realized that it is not as perfect as it seemed to me before. One thing I like best: it's the innocent face of the child and the colours remind me of my childhood. That's it for now as far as this work is concerned. ( This is the drawing on paper.)

I must tell you that I reached certain conclusions as far as drawing is concerned. For many years I stuck to the routine of drawing constantly on ordinary A3size paper and sprayed it with the same hair spray ('cause I don't use a fixative spray - alllegedly it's noxious). By accident, I thought out an idea that I can draw on cardboard. At first , I wasn't so sure if it would be successful but I tried. The effects surprised me. I found that colours are different on cardboard. The texture of paper is also relevant. Those rough ones are best. I started working on bigger cardboards, first doing sketches and then drawings. Sometimes I have problems with light colours which after spraying fade away, but in general my drawings are better on cardboard, besides the size of it also makes an impression on me.The bigger the better. There is a snag however: I cannot afford photocoping the cardboards. They are to big. The only solution is buying a digital camera which at the moment is out of the question.

And now my message to you is the following: Don't get yourself down if you don't achieve results which you want to. The reason for this is not always your abilities but the medium or the materials you use are to blame. Thet was the case with me.

My advice is: Try to experiment with different media and materials. Maybe you'll find someting you are good at and you don't even know it yet. Don't give up. In the following days I will show on display my cardboard drawings and I suppose you will assess from the start that they are better from the previous ones. Luckily they were registered on a digital camera. So have a nice watching, Ela.