Today is the 16th day of Inktober (you can read more about it here) and the prompt is "ANGULAR". Reading the Oxford dictionary, one of the meanings of this word is:
(of a person or part of their body) lean and having a prominent bone structure.
I didn't need to search the meaning of this word, because it came from the latin angulus and so in my mother language (italian) is very similar ^_^
Reading the different meanings in the Oxford dictionary (I use it when I have some doubt about a word), I didn't find a meaning that this word has in Italian. You have to know that, when we have to talk about something with angles, we use the synonym "spigoloso". We use this synonym not just for things or for some parts of a body, but also as an adjective for the temperament. When a person is a little bit susceptible and surly we call him/her "spigoloso/a" (maybe you don't know, but in my mother language we use to end a word with an "o" if we are talking about a man and with an "a" if we're talking about a woman).
So, today, I sketched a spigolosa face!
The idea came to me in a very simple way: I started drawing a simple angle on a page of my sketch journal!
This was the first step:
This simple first step reminds me a funny exercise I did when I was a child at school. My teacher, to improve out imagination, sketched some simple lines on a sheet of paper, asking to the students to create something from those simple lines! It was a great exercise for us and a funny way to improve our imagination.
Starting from that angle, I add an open eye and a closed eye, a mouth and everything that we can find on a face ^_^
Simple, but funny!
See ya later and happy Inktober!
Silvia
It is simple but it is really effective! I love it!
Thanks so much! It's a sort of self portrait about my face when my hubby doesn't want come with me to the shopping center :P
Lol!
I have long wanted to ask you: what is it like to be the wife of an artist? :-)
Sometimes it's great, sometimes I have to fight against too much spots of colors at home :P
When I was in Italy it seemed to me that every Italian is a bit of an artist :-)
We have a very creative mind in many different fields. For the most of the times is a good thing, but sometimes peoople use their creativity with bad intent ;)
Your work is simple. But I think it's great and I love it.
Love this, @silviabeneforti ! It's beautiful in its simplicity ! Gorgeous shapes, well considered, and the colours are nice, too <3
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