Good day to you all.

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As my contribution to the Hive Learners Creative Sunday and my love for art and drawings, I decided to participate in the week's art and sketch initiative.

This is an artwork. I should call it penwork. Most art and sketches are made using pencils, but I have decided to step up my game and use a pen for all my drawings.

You can only define a true artist when they can come up with an artwork out of anything and not just so dependent on certain materials. The advantage of using a pencil over a pen is that it can be easily erased. But as for pens, once you make a mistake then you have to start over again.

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Let’s journey on how I get to draw my artwork

TOOLS

• PEN
• DRAWING BOOK

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STEP BY STEP

STEP 1: Freethinking and Kickstarting

The first step was to freethink. I only got to bring art out, but I had no idea what the art could look like. I just have to make sure I bring something meaningful out of it.

This week I have decided to come up with something relating to Ramadan. I really want to wish my muslim brothers and sisters out there a Happy Ramadan Kareem ☪️

STEP 2: Sketching

The next step after getting the tools was to sketch, and sketching is always done to avoid mistakes. Make a light appearance of how you want the artwork to look like. And if there should be any necessary corrections then it would be way easier to amend.

At this stage, I had to sketch the human who was in praying position. Then i moved on to the lanterns, then to the full moon 🌕.

STEP 3: Value Addition

After making a perfect sketch, I thought of adding something to the background, so it wouldn't be all plane. Might not be worth it as I needed to be creative about my art. I wanted to draw a ballon with the **RAMADAN KAREEM” at the center below the lanterns. But I wasn’t because i had to deal with space.

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STEP 4: Tracing

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Tracing is all about giving a proper and clearer view from a sketch. When you trace it gives the final chance to make changes and corrections to the artwork.

I started by tracing the human, and then the lanterns. That’s more of what it takes to get the artwork done. From the sketch, I made sure I corrected some of the parts I made mistakes after the review.

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STEP 5: Final touch

Giving it a final touch makes the art more incredible. This is where I had to give the arts some design. I sketched the moon which gave it the final and lively appearance. It wasn't easy getting a point that worked well for the view. But I gave my best.

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STEP 6: Shading

After all, I got to shade and shadow it. This was to give it a better life appearance from angles.

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FINALLY, MY ARTWORK IS COMPLETED

THANKS FOR SPARING YOUR TIME TO READ AND MAKE YOUR COMMENTS.