This is a piece I simply traced and colored over. Not the most appreciated form of art, but it can be a little tricky in deciding which lines to actually use. What makes this project very fun is that you can apply any style you want to it, and almost just concentrate on the style.
Plus you can add your own inventions like the starry disco-ish background. She just needs a dance partner.
Taken from some image I found on the Internet. For some reason, I couldn’t tell if it was done or not, I guess you be the judge. Again, done all in Photoshop.
Continuing with sketching of lovely woman, I drew up a version of a Vanities magazine cover in a comic style in just black in white. I think I messed the eyes up a little, but i like the style. Done completely in Photoshop.
I picked up a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet this past week – and this thing rocks. For only $199 bucks, you can the Wacom professional quality pressure sensitive tablet, the same as the professional level Intuois series for half the price at this size. The pen area measures 8.5 x 5.4 inches with plenty of room to move around.
I got to sit down and sketch – this started as doodle and turned into a character illustration of someone who is a great inspiration to me. I tried to make her eyes the focal point, since she has these great bright eyes that light up. I feel much of personality comes from here. She’s always inspiring and uplifting to be around. The resemblance isn’t supposed to be 100% accurate (I drew her from memory) but as long as that sense of someone warm comes through the illustration, it’s what I was aiming for.
My latest sketch which is of Susan, whom I’ve never drawn before. She was a large woman (not obese) but I don’t think I’ve drawn a large woman before. Posed some interesting challenges.
Sketch was done with HB, 4B and 7B graphite pencils on bond.
Susan
From today’s open sketch, a woman whom I’ve sketched before but with not the greatest success. This time around I am quite pleased with how she resulted. I especially like her face, how its tilted down. The portion I’m most unhappy about is her legs, which seem shortened or large compared to the rest of her, which is probably why they remain unfinished.
We had a male this week named Bill, and he was a great model. Such a cool and majestic pose with a defined body to draw from. The trident was added by me, but he was holding a bamboo stick. I didn’t get to stay as long as I wanted to so it’s pretty incomplete. If I feel up to it, maybe I’ll return and give it some more detail and background depth.
Til next session.
I sat and sketched my girlfriend while she was watching TV last night. I ended up leaving her in simple line forms rather than shading in shadows and detail. She was wearing all black with black hair, it seemed ok to leave as outline. I used a 2B graphite pencil on bristol.
Click for larger Connie
It’s about 70% Connie in my eyes, and some slight proportion and position issues are present, but I only spent 45 minutes with this in quick one-off session.
Today’s model was Freya, a red headed young woman. I got to class late, so pickings for an angle was pretty small. I was able to get profile shot which was nice for a change actually.
My styles tend to change with the model, Freya seemed to have a comic book or fantasy quality about her. So I ended up drawing her only with black and white – no shades of gray. It was a bit experimental but a good exercise in working with those shadow shapes.
The hair was the toughest and it didn’t come out quite like I wanted but decent enough. I tool roughly eight images over the 5 hours it took to complete this piece.
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Overall I was pretty happy with it, I may transfer this to another sheet and ink it for a better black quality. Next time I think I’ll return to a more realistic approach.
Sitting on my stoop this afternoon practicing my grayscale values. Created a strip and an odd robot/human-isque shape with bad lighting.
Used a 4b for the job.
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