Good morning everyone,
Happy sunday to you all. This morning I want to share with us my second digital drawing. I mentioned few days ago when I made a post about my first digital drawing that I was working on a collection and Fatima was the first, the Hausa bride. Today I present to you Adaobi the second bride. She represents the Igbo culture and as we can see in the drawing, it is a typical example of how Igbo Brides looks like. Before I came up with this drawing, I had to look and study several pictures of Igbo Brides and some key things are common to their looks. First is the use of traditional red beads. In all the bridal pictures I saw, they are all adorned with mostly tiny red beads on their head (hair) and big expensive red beads on their necks.
The second thing I noticed was that most of the Brides go for hairstyles with a high updo design. This makes it easy for the hair to be adorned with beads. Although the hairstyles might be different a bit and some might even decide to do something different by going for a short hairstyles, most of the times they are usually high updo styles.
I also noticed that Igbo's female traditional wear is an armless top and this was shown in most of the bridal pictures I studied.
All these key stuffs was taken into consideration when I was making this drawing. I want it to be a typical representation of an Igbo Bride. Though I'm a yoruba girl and it's possible I might have missed some things, I think I did justice to the most part of it.
For the background of the picture, I decided I don't want it to be plain. So with some texture brushes I made some drawings in the background. Also I made some African writting at the left side of the drawing to give it a tribal look. I was kinda impressed with the result because it gave me an Adire clothing look even though I wasn't planning for that when I started drawing it but I ended up liking the look it gave me.
I made the drawing on Adobe Photoshop and working on these drawings keeps teaching me more stuff about the drawing application. I'll say you can never learn it all by just watching tutorials online. The best way of learning is via practices. I mean more and more practices and the more you do that, the better you become.
My next piece will be on a Yorube bride and I'm excited about this one because that is my culture and I hope I'm able to do justice to it too.
