Drawing Challenge#3: The Steem-Powered Banana Boat!

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Question: Who can swim faster?
A 'Mega Steem Whale', or
A 'Baby Steem Whale on a Steem-powered Banana Boat' or
the 'Apprentice fish'.

Doesn't make sense? Read on...hopefully it will make more sense.

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This is my second entry into the 'Drawing Challenge' by @helene

The link to the contest is shown below:

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https://steemit.com/drawingchallenge/@helene/drawing-challenge-winners-and-new-theme-sbds-giveaway

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This Week's Theme for the 'Drawing Challenge' by @helene is:
'Fruit'

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@helene's main guideline is:

You can draw whatever you like, as long as you draw it by yourself, it is accepted.

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I have drawn a 'Strawberry' for my first entry, and for my second entry I have decided to draw a 'Banana'.
This time, I tried something different with the drawing. Since the banana looks like the shape of a boat, I tried to make the banana into a boat. And when I think about the boat I think of the ocean... and so the train of thought led to drawing whales and this is what it looks like.

See below my entry.
Hope that you like it.

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The Steem-powered Banana Boat!

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I initially drew it in pencil and colored the drawing using color pencil. Then I edited the drawing slightly on computer to see the effect:

This is like a mouse pad or something...

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Here are the drawing material that I used:

I used pencils (HB, 6B) and color pencils

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This is a close up of the banana:

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One of @helene's rules are:

4、The works must be marked with your own name

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If you look closely at the bottom left of the drawing, you will see my username

I have tried to shape the letters of my name @apprentice001 into the shape of a fish since I have decided to go with the idea of a ocean. Hopefully now the question at the beginning of the post makes more sense.

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Another of @helene's rules are:

3、Take photo of step by step process (this is one of the most important criterion)

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Therefore, I made sure to take a lot of drawing process photos of the step to step process of the drawing as this is a very important criterion. I will first show animated gifs of the drawing process, and then go into step-by-step process of how I created the drawing and my thought process.

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Here is an animated gif of the drawing process

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The Banana Boat drawing GIF

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Here are the step-by-step process of how I created the drawing and my thought process

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To start off, I began a rough sketch of the banana in pencil.

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And then I incorporated the whales into the drawing

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Some fine tuning, darkening the lines and replacing rough outlines with clearer lines

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Once that is done, I begin to use color pencils to color in
A method I use to color in is to first outline a particular area of the drawing in the color that will take up most part of the drawing. For example, I have outlined the banana in yellow

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Once the outline in color is done, I begin to use stronger colors to color in the drawing

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Now I move onto coloring in the whales

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Same approach as the banana, using strong colors

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Once the baby whale is done, I move onto coloring in the mega whale

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And now, to create the 'Apprentice' fish:

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And this is it:

Here are some additional variations

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Thanks for reading my post and hope that you like it.

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Thanks for your time and have a great day!

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