How are you all doing? I hope you're all well, and if you're having a bad day, I wish you blessings and hope everything gets better. Today I drew the i19 Banjo. This curious instrument is a classical guitar that many of us know well, as it's very common to see it in many movies and cartoons. I thought it was perfect for my drawing today. I should mention that I listen to a lot of country music; it's a genre I love and am fascinated by. This instrument is widely used within this genre, so I can tell you a little bit about it.
Obviously, I'm no expert or anything; I'll just share my observations and what I've learned. It's a stringed instrument, part of the guitar family, but a distant one, lol. It has a very nice shape; it's completely round, which you can easily see if you look at the post's cover image.
In my opinion, its sound is much lighter and more delicate than that of a traditional guitar, which I think is partly due to its small size. It can be made of wood, but I've seen several with many metal parts. It has several decorative embellishments around it, almost all of them metal. By the way, I mentioned earlier that I'd seen it in movies and cartoons. I'll give you some examples: there are Westerns, and there are also cartoons, like the movie about the farm. The banjo appears in both, the same version as on the card. It's an instrument I could talk about at length and share many anecdotes, but we'll leave that for a future post. Today, I'm sure you want to see how I made the drawing, so I won't keep you waiting. First, I drew the card's frame.
After finishing the frame, I started working on drawing the banjo. I began by drawing its neck, the only straight and elongated part, where the strings are tightened. Once that was done, I drew the body, the rounded part I mentioned earlier—my favorite part of the instrument. The small square you see below is the tuning peg; the strings are attached there and tightened with the tuning pegs, which you'll see in the next step.
In the next step, I added the final aesthetic details to the banjo, such as the tuning pegs, which are used to tighten the strings and create the notes—those are the ones I mentioned earlier. I also made the decorative pieces on the sides and the legs to stand the instrument upright. And with that, it was ready to begin the next step.
Next up is bringing the drawing to life; it's time to paint. I hope you enjoy the process. I used a range of blues and grays, with pure color effects and spray paint. Here's how it went.
To finish the drawing, I added the strings over the painting, and also the card name and the game name in my usual stamp. Today I also created a slightly different stamp design with a different font and decoration. I hope you liked it, see you later, colleagues.
