Bristles and Lead
Mixed media artist and certified art instructor
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25/06/2023
Here's my latest commissioned art piece drawn from a 1952 photo of my client's Dad on his Harley Davidson motorcycle!!
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This landed up being a very emotional piece for my client and seeing the joy on his face when I showed it to him was priceless for me 🙂❤️
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I used mixed medium of acrylic paints, Copics, watercolour, softcore wax colour pencils, gel pens, fine liners on a 16x20 grey board to make this art work. Some airbrushing and charcoal for shadows was used as well.
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This drawing took me close to 30 hours over a period of three weeks. Capturing the details like they were in the photo was very important, so took a bit longer.
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I will post the stages pictures and timelapse video in my next posts along with some "behind the scenes, making of" reels in the next couple of weeks.
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11/06/2023
Missing your roar!! 🐆
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One of my realistic drawings of the Jaguar key fob. Made with mixed media on grey board.
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28/05/2023
My drawing of a red apple…took me around 3 hours. Mixed medium on white board.
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01/02/2023
Stages of the Cat drawing
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Stage 1: Pencil outline + watercolour base
Stage 2: Copic marker + colour pencils
Stage 3: Colour pencil layer
Stage 4: Gel highlights
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29/01/2023
Meet ‘Cat’!!
“Cat had long graceful legs…” - Elephant’s Makeover by Rukhsana Khan
This character from my book was one of the most fun ones to draw. I drew several versions of her before landing this one! Hope you like it.
Ruqaya's Bookshelf
01/01/2023
Happy New Year 2023!! 🎉💕🙂
Wishing you and your loved ones a very happy, healthy & prosperous New Year. May all your dreams and wishes come true! 🙂
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Thank you for your love and support in 2022. 🙏
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Here is one of my last commissioned drawings from 2022. I drew this for a die-hard fan of Max Verstappen and Oracle Red Bull Racing team who won the F1 Formula 1 championship title in 2022.
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Let's take inspiration from this team and work hard this year 🙂👍 Have a wonderful year and good luck to all!
Cheers,
Ikram
Happy Holidays!! Have a safe, healthy and joyous holiday season!! 🙂🎉
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17/12/2022
There are many things to be thankful for this year. Amongst them is Elephant’s Makeover…my debut as a children's book illustrator 🙂
I learned so much from so many people about illustrating a children's picture book. From doing character studies, developing sketches of the different characters, applying emotions based on the story, rendering the drawings on paper using mixed mediums, doing digital touchups, and putting it all together...
This journey has been a lot of fun!
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Written by best-selling author and award-winning story teller Rukhsana Khan and published by Ruqaya's Bookshelf
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Elephant wants to make friends but it's not easy. The other animals don't like the way she looks. Maybe if she changes...
It's a poignant story about bullying, forgiveness, self-esteem and friendship!
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Order now!!
08/11/2022
04/08/2022
For those in the GTA and surrounding areas, join us for a book launch event for ‘Elephant’s Makeover’!!
Story time with author Rukhsana Khan and learn about the illustration process from myself 🙂
Get your books signed and ask us tons of questions too!!
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When: Sunday, August 14, 6pm
Where: Tawheed Community Centre
(5586 McAdam Road, Mississauga)
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This is a free event but *registration is required* as there is limited seating - once capacity is reached, registration will close.
Visit the link in my stories to register your kids!
27/07/2022
It’s finally here!
This is my debut as a children’s book illustrator.
This is what was keeping me busy.
This is why I was MIA.
This is Elephant’s Makeover!!
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Written by best-selling author and storyteller
Published by Ruqaya's Bookshelf
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Elephant wants to make friends but it’s not easy. The other animals don’t like the way she looks. Maybe if she changes…
A story about bullying, forgiveness, self-esteem and friendship.
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Order now!! Link in bio.
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Time-lapse video of BMW X4!
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Which car do you want to see me draw next?
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This BMW drawing took me around 4 hours to make. I am happy to share any information about the drawing process if you are interested. Please let me know in comments.
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26/08/2021
Stages of the BMW X4 drawing
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Stage 1: Pencil outline
Stage 2: Copic marker + shadow airbrushed
Stage 3: Colour pencil layer
Stage 4: Burnish + highlights
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19/08/2021
Drawing of a BMW X4 Coupe!
This is my come back drawing after a three month hiatus. I am surprised that I still have people following me 🙏😀
I love this car and it brought back some nice memories of road trips while drawing.
Let me know how you like it? Leave your comments!! 🙂
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Time-lapse video of the Oil Lamp drawing! 🪔
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It’s always so much fun to draw on black paper! I used airbrushing for the embers, fire and smoke. Main layer was done with softcore colour pencils. Let me know if you have any questions, and I will be more than happy to answer! 😀
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18/05/2021
Stages of the Oil lamp (Diya) drawing 🪔
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Stage 1: Outline with white pencil
Stage 2: Airbrush the background and flame
Stage 3: Main layer with Prismacolor premier colour pencils for lamp, oil, flame and smoke
Stage 4: Highlights with Gelly roll pens
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10/05/2021
Drawing of a Diya (oil lamp)
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In this time of darkness and uncertainty, I pray for hope, strength and unity for all humanity!! I pray for light and guidance 🪔
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22/04/2021
Stages of the baby shoes 3D drawing
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Stage 1: Outline with pencil and base layer with Copic markers
Stage 2: Main layer for left shoe with Prismacolor premier softcore colour pencils
Stage 3: Continuing the main layer for right shoe
Stage 4: Burnishing the main layer, highlighting with Gelly roll pens & Stabilo fine liners and shadows with black charcoal powder
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19/04/2021
3D drawing of baby shoes! 😍
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How do you like it? Please leave your comments!
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Time-lapse video of Deadpool drawing!
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Please wait till the end to see the 3D effect. I used watercolour markers and Prismacolor premier pencils for this drawing. I did the shadow with charcoal.
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For a longer video and more details, please visit my YouTube channel (link in bio). Be sure to subscribe 👍☑️
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28/03/2021
Stages of the Deadpool 3D drawing
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Stage 1: Outline with pencil and watercolour base layer
Stage 2: Prismacolor pencil main layer
Stage 3: Main layer burnished
Stage 4: Highlights and 3D cut-out
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18/03/2021
3D drawing of Deadpool
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I will be posting the drawing stages and time-lapse video soon 🎨
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Time-lapse video of the Taj Mahal drawing!
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I drew this for my wife to express my everlasting love and gratitude for her. Thank you for being there no matter what! ♥️
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Took me almost 12 hours to complete. I used a new type of paper made of suede to do this drawing. Interesting thing about this paper it that it’s like drawing on velvet. It is not very forgiving and you cannot erase anything without leaving a horrible mark. I also did not apply a base layer with watercolour or copics like I typically do. Instead, I used Prismacolor premier pencils directly on the paper and highlighted using Stabilo fine liners, Gelly roll pens, Posca markers and Copic markers in the end. The size of this drawing is 12x15 inches.
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If you have questions about this drawing or the process, please ask in comments. 🙂
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08/03/2021
Stages of the Taj Mahal drawing
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Stage 1: Outline
Stage 2/3: Colour pencil rendering directly on paper with no base colour
Stage 4: Foreground colours, sky background dark colour and highlights
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05/03/2021
Drawing of the Taj Mahal on a moonlit night!
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Taj Mahal, a symbol of love, one of the new seven wonders of the world is an immense mausoleum of white marble.
It was built in Agra, India between 1631 and 1648 by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife.
The Taj Mahal is the jewel of Muslim art and architecture in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world’s heritage.
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Please DM me if you are interested to add this to your wall or your collection!! 😀
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Time-lapse video of the Predator drawing!
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I have been meaning to draw the jungle hunter predator for a while now and finally got to it!! 😀 This one from the original 1987 movie ‘Predator’ played by Kevin Peter Hall is one of my favourite alien movie characters of all time!
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I drew this from an action figure that I have (watch my reel 🎞). I tried various poses with it and finally liked this one where the Predator is in an ‘assess and strike’ pose with his wrist blades and shoulder cannon ready to go!
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I used Copic markers for base colours, Prismacolor premier pencils for main layers, charcoal powder for shadows, and Gelly roll pens and stabilo liners for highlights. The board I used is a Peterborough grey toned matte.
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For a longer 4 minute video please visit my YouTube channel (link in bio), and be sure to Subscribe and comment! 🙏
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22/02/2021
Stages of the Predator 3D drawing
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Stage 1: Outline and base layer
Stage 2: Main layer with Prismacolor - head and arms
Stage 3: Continuing main layer for torso and legs
Stage 4: Shadow, highlights and burnishing
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18/02/2021
3D drawing of the Predator
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I will be posting the drawing stages and time-lapse video soon 🎨
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Time-lapse video of the 3D drawing of the Avocado 🥑
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Many of you have asked me about the shadows I did on this drawing and wanted to know how I do it. I’ll focus this post mostly on shadows. 👥
I do the shadows in a few different ways. It all depends on how much depth I need and how contrasting I want it to be to the light exposure of the object. In this drawing, I used a simple hand-held airbrush with some opaque photo black paint to do the shadows. I used a frisket film to cover my drawing outline and cutout the outline carefully with an X-acto knife only where I want to paint the shadows. Then I spray painted the shadows and removed the film. The paint I used was a quick drying Comarts brand which I diluted with some airbrush medium.
The other methods I use to do shadows are with charcoal powder and chamois cloth or paper stubs. I sharpen a charcoal stick and collect the charcoal powder in a container and store it for future use. I like the charcoal method when I know I don’t need much depth in the shadow. I used this method in my Car Key Fob drawing (check it out)
Another method would be to colour the shadow using either graphite or colour pencils to make shadows. Advantage here would be that you can use different colours depending on the light thats passing through the object. Check out my Perrier bottle drawing for an application of this method.
Well, if you have any questions, please let me know in the comments and I will be happy to answer! 😀
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01/02/2021
Stages of the Avocado 3D drawing 🥑
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Stage 1: Outline and Shadow
Stage 2: Base layer
Stage 3: Main layer + highlights on first Avocado
Stage 4: Second Avocado + overall smoothening
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