Big eyed art by Zelyss

Wednesday 5 January 2022

🎀🎈💖THE BEGINNING💖🎈🎀

Hello lovelies!
With the chance of my new upcoming solo show with Curio Art Gallery in Portugal, which is themed around Alice in Wonderland, I'll be showing you a bit of my process of how I prepare the work I'll show, so that you can learn sth on the way, whether it is a few technique tricks or the madness of an artist 🤪😂💖

So, let's start with the bunny today...! I decided to start working on the messenger bunny as a first piece, and not the white rabbit, because of the colors! This was the ideal theme to warm me up! A solo show carries a lot of weight and responsibility, it really is hard to explain. I personally see it as a challenge to outdo myself, to go further than I have reached until then, always artistically speaking. On a solo show you work together with a gallery and it is an honor for an artist to be picked by a gallery, so like a parent that has invested in you and helped you, you want to make them proud of that choice and the faith they showed in you!! 🎀

The messenger bunny dressed on the gown of hearts, with warm pinks and reds all around, seemed like the perfect mood-fixer to begin with! Warm colors make you feel more vibrant and more optimistic in my opinion, and are more suitable for activity and 'let's do it' mood!

I started out with a first sketch (above). Eyes are not a problem for me, since I started sketching them at the age of 14, so...many years of practice 😜!!

But the bunny in my first sketch looked older, and more serious than I wanted. Big eyes make a figure look young, but the distance between eyes and the chin line is very important to achieve youth: the closer the eyes are to the chin, the younger the figure. It's the same with children if you observe! With a little tweaking on Photoshop, the sketch came to where I wanted, so that was done:

Many times I make a B&W shading sketch, but for this one I needed the color therapy asap, so I painted my initial sketch with gouache. The result is what you see in the first picture. I was quite happy with it (lucky me!) so this one is ready to go on the painting process now 💖🤗!!

We'll let this be for a while and on the next post we'll talk about fur, so if you're an animal lover, don't miss it ❤😉!

😉❤ THE RETURN ❤😉

Hello lovelies!
I totally happened to come across my Blog at the end of 2021, and realized it has been left untouched and forgotten since 2017!

I am a lover of reading, and since it brought back so many memories, I'm thinking of giving it a go again, simply because to my eyes a blog resembles more a diary than a photo book does. Plus through the keywords on the right, you can easily find all related topics which in my case is a trip down to the memory lane and in your case, a chance to entertain and educate yourself.

So I say we give it a go, and hopefully if you happen to stop by, you can find something beneficial which will inspire or inform you! 🎀

Hop on💖🤗!

Wednesday 27 September 2017

Mini Sketches - September 2017 series

September is my birthday month, so I prepared 20 mini sketches to be releasing every day at 3PM EST in my store, from September 11th until September 30th (that's my birthday!). These little sketches are especially dedicated to any low-fund collectors, who drool over all that amazing artwork that we all follow, but can't afford bigger and more expensive pieces.

They can be found daily, along with anything new I make, at http://zelyss.bigcartel.com/

To stay super updated about my work, you can follow me here: https://www.instagram.com/zelyss.art/ :)