Art (I drew my cover photo)
Yesterday afternoon I felt very inspired. Ideas and inspiration came to me, and I felt like painting. What did I paint? Well, a little penguin that represents my Steemit cover photo. I really like this photo, so I decided to draw it. I hope you like it; I put a lot of effort into this painting.
The first thing I did was select my main materials, which were going to be the paper and the pencil, and I will also be using colors:
The second thing I did was draw the corners of the little penguin, that is, the outlines, to have a guide for its appearance and start doing the other details:
As a third step, I drew the tummy, face, eyes, and mouth. I didn't draw this part in much detail since I was just using it as a guide.
In the fourth step, I moved on to adding details to the face, the tummy, the eyes and the mouth, pressing the pencil a little harder so that these details stood out more.
Now it's finally time to draw. In this step, I started by drawing the eyes with different colors.
I shaded the left eye with a bit of skin tone and the right with a bit of light green, creating the illusion of a realistic eye. I also drew the pupils in white with a bluish tint at the bottom, and added black and white to give them a highlighting effect. To finish the eyes, I drew the back of the eye in white.
In the mouth area, I colored the tips of the beak: the lower part a darker orange with a little black to give the effect of the underside, the upper part a lighter orange, and the belly white.
Here I proceeded to draw its body in black, in some places I gave it lighter tones to give a kind of lighting effect, also on the head I added a black color next to the white indicating the snow it had and finally I colored its small legs orange and black.
In the last photo, I simply went over the pencil lines with a marker and added a bright, light blue background. And that's how I finished the drawing.
I loved drawing this penguin and put a lot of effort into making it look good. It's a pleasure to draw and create for this community. I hope you like it. See you later.
This publication was translated from Spanish to English using Google Translate.
Why did you take that for your cover?
Thank you so much for all the support, friend. Why did I decide to use this photo as my cover photo? Great question!
Before joining Steemit, I had a jigsaw puzzle game on my phone that I played a lot. These puzzles were mostly of animals and landscapes. One of them was of a little penguin. It was easy to put together, but once I did, I loved it because it had some special features. It was small and helpless, and that's how I was when I started on Steemit.
Time passed, and that profile picture was with me through thick and thin. I met great friends, learned so much from them, and that picture was always there. That's why, every time I see it, I remember my beginnings on Steemit, and over time it has become a treasured memory.
This is the story behind this cover photo.
Thank you so much for all your help, see you later.
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This is really a great story behind your avatar. I love it and thank you for taking the time to explain it. Now that the little one is even more precious and.. before you know it, it's a big, strong penguin.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you liked it! 🤩 Thank you for your kind words; I almost cried 😅. I really appreciate it. Thanks, friend!
I found it an interesting story. I haven't thought about my avatar too much. It's just the black cat peeping around. I like black cats (and yellow not at all 😄).
Thanks, don't worry, your avatar is great.
Cats are lovely, especially yellow ones. I've heard they're friendlier and more curious about people. I like cats too, although I've never raised one, haha. (It's great that you like cats; they're amazing animals!)
See you later.