I Spend My Country's Coronavirus Quarantine Doing A Daily Drawing Challenge! Part 2 (8 Pics)

Hi there! I live in Italy and in the last 17 days the italian government asked us to remain home to stop the spread of the coronavirus. We are allowed to leave only to buy groceries or medicines so we end up spending most of our days inside. I decided to brighten a little this period of time with a daily drawing challenge! I choose a different theme for each day and started drawing! All of these are done with markers and gel pens since I love working with them! I posted the sketches from day one to ten in my article last week so I'll start from day 11.

My theme for day 11 was diamonds! At the beginning I wanted to used a very soft color palette and I was thinking of using grey, white and light brown to also rapresent the earth the diamonds come from but I was very unsatisfied with this first sketch because it was too bland. So in the end I changed earth with ocean since the depths of ocean made me think of the great pressure that is needed to create diamonds! I also ended up using a very intense choice of colors to go along with the water textures.

My theme for day 12 was "brown" and I ended up drawing a male figure since I started thinking about the Mr Brown I often found in textbooks!! I tried to keep the design very simple and to use brown for hair and clothes. It was very fun to work at!

The theme for day 13 was "monochrome" it was definetely the most challenging work in all the week since I only own one black marker so to make some shades I had to dip it in a glass of water and the ink ended up turning almost violet for some reason. My idea for it was a panda moving his ear to listen to music but instead I drew a panda plushie head and a panda looking boy because I was really struggling in doing a full drawing of a semi-realistic panda so I had to change my initial idea.

My theme for day 14 was "angels" but after doing an initial angel sketch I decided to add some devil elements like the horns and hints of red in the wings and eyes. Out of everything I really struggled with the wings because it took me a very long time to draw every single feather!!

My theme for day 15 was "spikes" I tried to use a different way of coloring using gel pens, pencils and oil pastels. For some reason the hair got a lot less colorful and bright than they were on paper but I still like the overall look of it!

My theme for day 16 was "noses". That's quite the odd theme but I decided on it because I rarely draw noses and obviously I failed at drawing them correctly here. So I decided to give the whole drawing a strange odd look and add more weird features in doing the eyes and mouth!!

My theme for day 17 ( so today) was "punctuation marks" and I choose it by flipping the pages of a textbook yesterday evening as I was a bit out of ideas. I rapresented my theme mainly on the background and I wanted to boy at the center to look like a student so I gave him school uniform looking clothes.

The theme for this was was "space". This was supposed to be my theme for tomorrow but I ended up doing it today so I'll have to think of a new theme to do! I always loved drawing and painting space: it's so colorful and beautiful but at the same time it's also easy to rapresent!
I really like the idea and the outline and I think the eyes came out really well but I don't like how the colors of the face and helmet came out after I scanned the drawing. The helmet was a very bright orange on paper and the skin was a lighter pink.