Pencil drawing, New Competition (No.27) - The path to happiness.

One day a little snail crawling through the forest smelled an incredibly wonderful aroma and decided to find its source.

This aroma attracted her and she crawled towards it with all her might.

Many days and nights had passed since she began her journey, and now on the edge of the forest edge she saw a beautiful huge mushroom which was the source of that unforgettable aroma.

The snail climbed onto the mushroom cap sat comfortably on it and having bitten off a piece of the tasty mushroom pulp realized that this is real happiness!

It was worth spending so much time and effort for this!

Just when she thought that her life had now moved to a better level she heard footsteps on the forest path.

So in the distance a man appeared a mushroom picker who was looking for his happiness and as you know for a mushroom picker happiness is finding a mushroom in the forest.

Each of them had a path to happiness but if one of them remains happy then the other will have to continue the search for happiness.

My next pencil drawing was based on such thoughts.

The beginning of work was not much different from the beginning of work on other previous drawings.

This is a fictional snail and everything that appears in the picture so you shouldn’t look for a perfect anatomical resemblance.

I wanted to draw an agaric mushroom and see what would come of it.

I thought that this way the snail shell would be more similar to what we see in nature.

I once drew a slug but its structure and texture of its body is different from snails so I had to improvise with it.

Gradually I came to a certain denominator and during the work I had to make difficult changes when there was already a lot of graphite but I needed to remove the excess for example the area near the snail’s head.

I enjoyed working on the mushroom I didn't expect it to look so much like a real mushroom.

The work took about an hour and a half and it seemed to me that it was time to stop.

But a few hours later I picked up the sketchbook again and after looking at the drawing I realized that I could still work on it.

It took me another fifteen minutes after which I saw what I wanted to see on a piece of paper namely the difficult path to happiness.

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This drawing is my participation in Pencil drawing, New Competition (No.27) You can win Steem. Congratulations to the winners from competition 28 organized by Dear @xpilar.

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Have a blessed day!

Category:	Art, drawing, illustration.
Tools:	Graphite pencils B3, B6, B8, HB and 2=HB, eraser, sharpener.
The format of a sheet of paper, canvas:	Sheet of paper A5.
Location:	Ukraine
Author:	Author @barski. In my publications you will see only my author's works.

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