I haven't had much time to draw this week. I've been a bit distracted with work/catching up with friends that I've neglected drawing. Good thing I'm about a week ahead with my drawings!

So I decided that I'd draw another of my favourite characters. This time it's Waka from "Okami". It's only a quick sketch so there's about a million things wrong with it! I'm actually quite proud of the pose though. I definitely think I'm getting better and putting more "life" into my drawings. Hopefully I'll have some time this week for a more detailed drawing.

Something new!

So as I said before, this week I'm in the mood to try something different. My friend Lilia got me into the kpop band MBLAQ and ever since then I've been dying to draw a portrait  I've not drawn one in at least seven years!

It could be a lot better. I'm amazed I've improved so much since my last one. Especially considering I've had no practice at it. I need to practice a lot at getting facial features recognisable - especially the eyes and mouth. Either way I'm still fairly happy with this. Also for anyone who's curious it's the member thunder. 

I forgot!

I completely forgot to upload again! That's the problem with getting my drawings done in advance. So this week a friend of mine challenged me to a drawing contest. She wanted to draw me and my favourite Pokemon team and in return I was to draw hers.

I'm quite happy with this. I'll admit I did get help via reference pictures on a few of the poses (who knew Pokemon were so hard to draw). All the colours and the rest of the poses are completely mine. I really like the colours. They're nice and bright so I think it reflects them quite well. Also, incase you're wondering this is the picture my friend did. You can find her artwork at http://tsutsuji14.deviantart.com/.

Also, I'm thinking of going for something different next week. We'll see if it turns out the way I want it before I tell you though! It's a completely new style and I'm not sure I can pull it off.

So I'm going back to Japan next year! I've officially started saving and I'm in the middle of planning places to go with a few friends. Since I'm so excited about this I thought I'd draw a picture inspired by it.

I've tried many times to draw a kimono and I can never get it to look right. This time I thought I'd add a sakura (cherry blossom) pattern and I'm quite proud of it! Plus it's also to symbolise the time of year I'm going to visit. I thought I'd try a bit of an unusual colour palette this time too. It's not often that I use both blue and purple for hair. Personally, I think it goes quite well though and matches the sakura petals. I probably should've spent more time on the hair decoration but I figure I could do a study on this another time since they're always so pretty. Anyway, I'm really proud of this picture and hope that there's more Japanese inspired pictures to come soon! Especially since I enjoy drawing these so much.