Today; I learnt a new digital art skill via Youtube!

I came across a video while on Youtube about How to create art with the Pen-tool on Photoshop. I watched it twice and after seeing it, I knew what I had to do and followed the process (model, skin, shadow, black, white and background).

Well, I currently can’t afford Photoshop and after I upgraded my system, CoralDraw stopped working and is demanding I update to premium. So I utilized the alternative which is a free program called Inkscape 0.91 and this is the end result:

My first attempt

I later used the knowledge I got from another video months ago, to blend the image as follow:

'Finished' digital work!

“Who u epp?” is a very common Pigeon-English phrase in Nigeria. It is similar to ‘I don’t give a damn’ or ‘it doesn’t concern me’.

It was exciting.

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My latest Ballpoint Pen Drawing (September 2015)

Recently I left one of my ‘base’ in Delta State back to Bauchi in a hurry and forgot my faded blue towel behind.

Anyway, the above picture is a recent sketch I made at its early stage of development. At the top left side of the picture is a folded piece of tissue paper that I use to clean the tip of the pen while I draw. The ballpoint pen often overflows when I sketch with it for too long (I use to use the towel but have found an alternative).

Below is the ‘completed’ biro sketch of the above picture.

 

To avoid accidentally staining the white paper with hand w(hile working), I use a folded sheet of paper instead of my regular towel (a method/tradition I sometimes use).

Thanks for visiting.

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First Collage (Art) for the year 2013

 

This is the collage of the week. It is also the 1st collage I made this year.

I shredded about 3 leaves of newspapers into (over) 500 particles, then I glued them together to form the image you see above.


I started the work on the 24th February 2013 and only 'completed it' yesterday (9th March 2013).


If you like this artwork, you should consider visiting my other blog that features only collage at: http://collage-artwork.blogspot.com

Thank you for visiting.

Art by me;

 Ife'ka Terry

 www.ifekaterry.com

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 Tugis Art Studio .:::. www.tugis.com.ng

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Recently Lost My Phone

The lost of my phone slowed me down a bit but I bounced back. Yep, it (my phone which I often use to blog) was stolen.


It time to go and sleep. I would resume blogging tomorrow. Cheers!


Ife'ka Terry
www.ifekaterry.com



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Collage art of the week!

Hello,

This is the collage of the week at my blog dedicated to Collage Art.

www.collage-artwork.blogspot.com/2012/07/less-tedious-collage-works.html It contains about 250 pieces of cut-out papers. Its size is 10 x 8 inches (please follow the link above to read more about the collage) FOR SALE.

Thanks for visiting ifeka.blogspot.com

© Ife'ka Terry
www.ifekaterry.com

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FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/art.african
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Tugi's Art Studio: tugis.com.ng

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Ballpoint Pen Art ~ African girl with a tribal marked face

Above is a 14x12inches ballpoint pen art (an artwork made by use a blue inked Biro to sketch).

The drawing was made last year (2011). I used about 3 diffrent tones of blue ink.

Please follow the link below to read more about this Art.

http://biro-sketch.blogspot.com/2011/12/african-girl-with-tribal-marked-face.html

Titled: African Girl With A Tribal Marked Face

Thanks for reading through

© Ife'ka Terry
www.ifekaterry.com

Tugi's Art Studio .:::. tugis.com.ng

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Weekly Collage Blog

www.collage-artwork.blogspot.com

The above *link* leads to another Blog of mine (that is) dedicated to my collage creation. It was lunched this year (2012) and I plan to update it once every week (God willing).

A collage is an artwork made by sticking (with gum) bits of paper to form a whole picture.

Here are links to some interesting post I recently published:
¤ Making Collage Art Can Be FUN (like playing a jigsaw puzzu) http://collage-artwork.blogspot.com/2012/05/making-collage-can-be-fun-2.html
¤ Making Collage Can Be FUN (like keeping a scrapbook) http://collage-artwork.blogspot.com/2012/05/making-collage-can-be-fun-1.html
¤ Making Collage Can Be Economical & Eco-Friendly (GREEN) http://collage-artwork.blogspot.com/2012/05/making-collage-can-be-economical.html

Please check it out @ www.collage-artwork.blogspot.com

Thank you.
© Ife'ka Terry
http://ifekaterry.com

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What to do when you can not paint (tip)

http://www.ifeka.blogspot.com/2009/05/pharaoh-ess.html














'If you hear a voice within you say; "you cannot paint", then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced' ~ Vincent Van Gogh

I trying to paint after a very long time lol, I hope I don't spend way too much time on it (time is money, that is why we spend it).

© Ife'ka Terry
http://ifekaterry.com

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my other blog dedicated to ballpoint pen artworks ~ Biro Sketches

Please visit http://biro-sketch.blogspot.com to see some of my other artworks made with a ballpoint pen (or Biro).

I might be selecting a few to display here every week.
Thank you
© Ife'ka Terry
http://tugis.com.ng
FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/birosketch

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For more information about the above drawing (that was made with a blue ink Biro), Please click: http://biro-sketch.blogspot.com/2012/04/portrait-of-tiger.html

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Good Good laugh

One hundred percent (100%) ORIGINAL handmade Pencil Work. The above artwork is an original drawing on paper. Completed yesterday September 18, 2009

Thank You.


Ife’ka Terry
http://www.ifekaterry.com

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Pharaoh-ess

I started this artwork November 17, 2008. After four (4) days of painting, I totally lost my inspiration. I didn’t know what to do next, when to continue and, I lost my desire to paint. So I covered the painting with cloth (I live in Northern Nigeria and it is very dusty and sandy until the rains comes).

The idea behind the painting is to make an image of an African girl as a female-king and not a queen (who is just the wife of a king). I didn’t want to use gold or extreme facial makeup. . . . . . In high school I made a painting of a black pharaoh, so I wanted to make the cloth on her head to look like what a Pharaoh would put on his head. The cloth on her head is from a Yoruba traditional cloth called ‘Ashokay’ (Yoruba people are found in the western part of Nigeria).

Well, around that March-April period, I saw a bulletin from one of my MySpace friend titled something like; ‘Yoruba language has some similarity to that of ancient Egypt’ unfortunately, I couldn’t see the content of that bulletin because it was a video (and my internet connection is too slow to play YouTube videos).

The person that sent the bulleting usually sent these types of very educative and interesting bulleting. Sometimes (especially last year) the topic are sarcastic and I misunderstood there meaning (at first).

Anyway, I re-started the painting again and finished it with even more passion. It took a total of over 56 hours to finished this painting (over 5 months break because of dried up inspiration).

Procrastination? NO! NO!!



Thank you.



Ife’ka Terry
http://www.ifekaterry.com/

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Estelle – Come Over Love

One day, I was watching a Reggae Show called Reggae-Top-Ten hosted by Suzie Q. That day, they were playing a lot of Dance-Hall kind of reggae so I reduce the volume (because I prefer Root-Rock or Lovers-Rock reggae). I was not concentrating when I heard a cool beat from the TV. I increase the volume and it was Estelle and Sean Paul singing a song ‘Come Over Love’.

Some few days later, I wanted to make a cubism collage where I would use shape to form an African woman’s face and I agreed to make Estelle from what I remember her face looked like (I know of Sean Paul before, but that was the first day I ever seen Estelle). I could never forget her lip particularly but I can’t even remember me making the collage because it was so fast (within 4 days) may be it was because I was singing the song in my heart while making the artwork.___________

If you check on the JOURNAL page on my portfolio website Freeman.BoundlessGallery.com you will see a journal titled VIDIOS and you can watch the music that inspired the artwork. Thank you.___________

Anyway the above collage is available at:

 http://www.freeman.boundlessgallery.com

Ife’ka Terry

http://www.ifekaterry.com

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Sip Coka-cola

An Original watercolor painting on card board.

For Sale at http://www.freeman.boundlessgallery.com/

Thanks

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