Clarisse's sketchbook

[Clarisse Silva]

Seriously, I don't know what's wrong with me. I've been super frustrated because I feel that I somehow "forgot" what I thought I already "knew".

I've been trying as well to start working on my portfolio, for which I have some ideas, but I always come out frustrated because I don't have enough knowlegde to draw/paint like I imagine.

Consequently, I decided to stop trying to draw at random and to start reading from cover to cover all the books I have and to do every exercise in them.

Although these images are mainly from last month, I think they transmit the said frustration.

I could really use some help now, if anyone have any advice, please tell.


Here's a landscape study. By the way, I can't render more than this when I do landscape studies, which really bothers me.




Gesture drawings from earlier this month (feel awful for posting this)




Something that came out of my mind and I don't really know what it is




A failed portrait of my bestfriend :c




Two more portraits






Some heads from imagination








Two attempts of a longer figure drawing





And I found a funny picture that I had to draw, and that's my name in Japanese, for some reason




Some studies for my illustrations, which are currently paused because I recognized that a lot of work and serious studying had to be done first
(Yep, those are tents suspended in trees :D )






And some china ink drawing, although the perspective is all wrong, was really fun to do. Too bad I'm not Kim Jung Gi :c