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New drawing dedicated to the Beijing Olympics. I'm chinese myself so it means alot that it was held in China. I pretty much was glued to the tv watching China perform. It didn't matter what event it was or if we won or lost. I was addicted and found myself cheering if we won a medal!

Of course I was very impressed with the artistic gymnastics so this was the main part of my drawing. I decided to focus on the female gymnasts as I haven't done many drawings with female full body postures. Usually it's male basketball players or martial artists.

I only wanted to draw mid air body postures which were very difficult. The outfits were highly detailed, facial expressions and tricky body postures like doing the splits or being mid air upside down.

I originally was going to color every gymnast using normal colors. But I felt that each pose would not stand out so the decision was to have each gymnast a different color apart from the centre gymnast.

I've never done a frame for any of my drawings so I thought I should try one for this. I came across a newspaper which had a small pattern. I decided to use that for every corner adding my own touches on the sides. That frame took ages to finish! My fingers were in pain adding all the details and dark shaded areas!

There was still space to do more inside the frame around the gymnasts so I added varied moments from the opening ceremony.

Photo taken using digi cam. It seems like the colors light blue and green don't turn out too well after I've taken a picture. There's certain details not visible unless you see the actual drawing which I do find annoying but there's nothing I can do about that.

I have mixed feelings with how this drawing looks. I don't think it turned out how I wanted it to and maybe I might have done too much on it. But I'm done with it now so I have to move on to the next drawing.

A4 size paper.
Completed in around 4 weeks. Really long hours!
Color ball point pens and felt tip pen markers.
Full view is recommended.

Description
New drawing dedicated to the Beijing Olympics. I'm chinese myself so it means alot that it was held in China. I pretty much was glued to the tv watching China perform. It didn't matter what event it was or if we won or lost. I was addicted and found myself cheering if we won a medal!

Of course I was very impressed with the artistic gymnastics so this was the main part of my drawing. I decided to focus on the female gymnasts as I haven't done many drawings with female full body postures. Usually it's male basketball players or martial artists.

I only wanted to draw mid air body postures which were very difficult. The outfits were highly detailed, facial expressions and tricky body postures like doing the splits or being mid air upside down.

I originally was going to color every gymnast using normal colors. But I felt that each pose would not stand out so the decision was to have each gymnast a different color apart from the centre gymnast.

I've never done a frame for any of my drawings so I thought I should try one for this. I came across a newspaper which had a small pattern. I decided to use that for every corner adding my own touches on the sides. That frame took ages to finish! My fingers were in pain adding all the details and dark shaded areas!

There was still space to do more inside the frame around the gymnasts so I added varied moments from the opening ceremony.

Photo taken using digi cam. It seems like the colors light blue and green don't turn out too well after I've taken a picture. There's certain details not visible unless you see the actual drawing which I do find annoying but there's nothing I can do about that.

I have mixed feelings with how this drawing looks. I don't think it turned out how I wanted it to and maybe I might have done too much on it. But I'm done with it now so I have to move on to the next drawing.

A4 size paper.
Completed in around 4 weeks. Really long hours!
Color ball point pens and felt tip pen markers.
Full view is recommended.