Saturday 31 January 2015

Don't forget your roots

Short blog this week. Still doing more character study and poses. This time I thought I'd use my own character. Plus I wanted to do something that shows not to "forget your roots". I've been looking over my old work to see how I've improved and felt this theme was appropriate.


I'm actually really happy with how this turned out. I'm beginning to like my colours (before they were way too flat) plus I feel I'm improving a lot with my poses. I only wish I had more time to draw!

Tuesday 20 January 2015

It's Midna!

So this week I decided to revisit character study. I was browsing through websites of artists that inspire me and saw they do this often to try and improve on their own characters. I thought it was a great idea so why not start with my favourite character.


She's from my favourite game "Twilight Princess". I love her "impish" character that's full of mischief. She's also the princess of the Twilight Realm so I wanted to draw something that showed off her personality and her position. I probably could do with more pose studying but I'm really happy with it. Also, I finally started sing the airbrush! It's so much easier to add shadows now. I definitely think I'll be using it more from now on.

Not sure if I'll upload another post this week. Depends on how quickly another idea comes to me. If not then it'll just be next week for another post. That's all for now.

Saturday 17 January 2015

Staying ahead

Well I'm actually managing to stay ahead of this! I drew two pictures last week so that I could concentrate a bit on learning Japanese (I'm really struggling with the vocabulary). Anyway, I was looking through deviantart and came across quite a number of artists who inspired me to draw. Next week will not be my own character, instead one of my favourite characters. Enough of that for now.


Tah dah! This was originally just supposed to be a joke but I quite liked the sketch. After visiting Japan I've had a craving for ramen and I was joking about it with a friend. I thought why not sketch it quickly and then I just didn't stop. It's only a quick drawing but I'm really pleased with it. I've not managed to draw an "eating" picture successfully so it's quite an achievement for me, especially with no reference. The colours are pretty decent too.

Next week's picture will be much more detailed than this. That's enough for this week!

Wednesday 14 January 2015

I forgot...again

Seems like I forgot to upload this again. Overtime is killing my memory! 


So this time it's a concept that just came to me in my sleep. It's only supposed to be a quick drawing so it still looks quite sketchy. I'm actually quite proud of the shadows. Usually I don't get them quite right but they look fine in this. I'll need to experiment more with lights to see how to draw them properly. That's it for this week. 

Tuesday 6 January 2015

Guess what I've been watching

Whoops I'm a bit late. I had my drawing ready early and forgot to actually upload it to this. I've been watching a lot of films lately with my sister and really liked the new "Blue Exorcist" character. He inspired me to draw.


I was experimenting a bit with the lineart. I didn't want it plain so I was messing about with colours (I actually didn't know how to edit the lineart). It was just meant to be a quick drawing so there are plenty of mistakes. It's helping me get some practice in with different techniques.