Here they are… The fanart I’ve been working on… Well rather than fanart… It’s more like, I picked twosetviolin as reference photos?
Finished this piece this morning… Let’s start off on a strong note and go with my latest and best work thus far… Eddy in colorpencil. Matching skin tones with color pencil (or maybe with any medium) is hard! The mask was much easier to draw in comparision… But well it’s not exactly color accurate too. Overall the colors are more saturated than the original… But not too bad I guess. He’s tilting his head quite a bit in the photo, which doesn’t seem to be captured here… The specs are so freaking hard to draw… I gave up trying to color match it and… Yeah… I didn’t realise how off the shape was till it’s too late. I mean. It’s one thing if it doesn’t match the reference. It’s another that the left and right does doesn’t match each other *facepalm*. Oh wells. Ya live and ya learn. Better luck to me next time… Maybe I’ll have a better idea how to blot out the shape of fragile tiny things like frames better next time. (The left ear is also a bit weird, but not as weird as the glasses…)
Considering that this is pretty much the 2nd time in my entire life that I’ve done a color pencil drawing (the first one I drew was an apple), I’m very, very happy with the results. Used the gel pen for some spots on the glasses, and the eyes because at the last min I messed up the blending… I didn’t like how the gel pen looks when it went down, but it looks ok in the photo and looking at it in person again now after half a day, I’m fine with it too.
One mistake I made this time was doing the draft in pencil… Should have used my erasable prismacolor pencils dangit! The pencil left marks and though it’s fine in many areas… The glasses which I would have preferred to remain say… White or yellow, ended up being a bit grey because of the pencil marks… Oh wells. Again, ya live and ya learn!
Going back in time we have another sketch of Eddy… This time in pencil. Just a quick sketch this time. I thought Eddy looked pretty gangster squating like that, plus it was a good challenge. I’ve hardly draw any full body sketches, pretty much just my favourite scientist in a lab coat thing that I default to, and even then it’s just standing up, and many a times I omit the shoes because I can’t draw them properly. I can only draw sideways shoes, and I’ve tried and failed to draw shoes in other angles. So this time the challenge was to draw a squating human, plus front on shoes. I did also try to look at the light and shading… But overall I didn’t put too much effort into those… I wanted to finish it off quickly and be done with it, and move on to learning new things with a new piece, and that was what I did. Finished this off in one sitting, maybe 2 hours or less? I don’t remember any more. But that is significantly lesser than the color pencil. That took me like two weeks. Obviously I wasn’t working on it everyday… But it probably took 10 hours? Maybe more? To finish that color pencil piece.
Finally we have the very first portait I tried to draw, ever. In pencil. It’s also one of the first few times I tried to shade properly. I think the proportions and everything looks pretty decent… Like… It looks like Brett.. Though the smile/grimace is a bit weird. In my defence, his smile in that insta photo *IS* a bit weird/awkward… Which was why I chose to draw that in the first place. Kinda cute, if you’d to ask me. I did cheat and turn the color photo into black and white and used that as reference so it’s easier to see the shading.
To think that 4 years ago I was only capable of doing this… Lol.
I was scrolling through my instagram accounts just now and realised that I’ve really not done much calligraphy for very long now. The last time I actually ‘practiced’ calligraphy was like 3-4 years ago… I started earnestly doing a bit of brush calligraphy daily when I was in my previous job, and I’ve been in my current job for almost 4 years now. I did continue for a little while when I switch to my current job… And then I did do like a doodle a day for a while, but those are really just quick, childish doodles, and nothing that I truly put much effort into. Finally picking it up again after stopping for so long.
Practice truly makes progress.