Drawing Alice In Wonderland

[Orestes Hardy]

Lastfall, I was asked to participate in a small gallery exhibition called Kaninkolo (Rabbit Hole). I thought that the name was a funny reference to the Alice in Wonderland book and an opportunity to create fantastic wonderland art. I had previously covered the wonderland theme by drawing for the Magical Inkdom course. It was fun to see how the theme would lend itself to my painting style, which is much more abstract.

When drawing all the details, I thought about how I would divide the lessons. I got the idea to make a separate central circle for the drawing, which can be rotated and thus change the heads and outfits of the characters. You can see the wheel at the end of this video:

When painting abstract, I try to change the original idea to a mood, and then paint the mood. My mind is then in a 3-dimensional dynamic space rather than trying to maintain a 2-dimensional static image.

This is my art contest entry of @helene drawing challenge. The theme of the drawing challenge is "hat".

Originally, my idea for the drawing i'm supposed to be making for the drawing challenge is different from

what i've drawn. I'm not good at drawing portraits but when i thought about the hat, i thought of mad hatter, a character in alice in wonderland. so i drew mad hatter (even if he doesn't look like, ok maybe a little hahaha)

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