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These are a bunch of pictures that I have made. I have been doodling in class since elementary school. Unfortunatly, my level of skill does not reflect the amount of time that I have spent with pencil and paper.
At some point, I decided to try scanning some pictures and coloring them in Adobe Photoshop / Aldus Photostyler. Even more recently, I've started to draw directly in Photoshop without the initial pencil sketch.
When I am actually working with a real medium, I tend to draw on anything that happens to be handy. Usually, this means a #2 pencil and either a college-ruled notebook or some inkjet printer paper. Some of my more recent sketches have been done in an actual sketchbook. I've started to enjoy the difference between pencils with different hardness values. Sketching with a 4H is great, and the deep black that you get with a 6B or 8B is truly fantastic.
I haven't drawn anything in a while, so I figured it was time to dust off the old tablet. I threw this together in about an hour. No particular inspiration - it was just something that occurred to me.
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This is a picture that I drew while working on Sharbat Gula. I needed something to do while I waited for my laundry to dry, and I didn't want to work on Sharbat, so I made this. It took less than 30 minutes. The original is included as well, lifted from SmugMug
This was just something that I drew while playing around with my tablet. I had a pretty vivid dream that involved spaceships and ladders, and biodomes. Just before I woke, I was in a forest with somebody shooting a bow. This picture isn't quite what it looked like in my dream, but I am happy with the way it came out anyway (especially since I spent less than an hour - maybe even 30 minutes - on it).
I just got a nice, new, 6x11 Wacom Intuos3 tablet, and I love it. This is a sketch that I made while testing it. The sketch didn't take much time. I love the additional size and wide aspect ratio that this tablet provides.
An evolving picture of Tamynn, my druid in World of Warcraft. I was really keen to work on this, and was pretty happy with the pencil drawing. For some reason, though, the drawing just wasn't coming together. I think I was overly ambitious. Someday, maybe I'll get back to Tamynn. (Since I started this drawing, both Tamynn and I have gotten much better equipment. Tamynn has 6/8 Cenarion, 3/8 Stormrage, and Robes of the Battleguard. I have my Intuos3 tablet.)
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This is the work that I did on it the next day. You can see even more base color was added, and also some texturing and shading. I had a lot of fun with the hair, as always. I learned the little that I know about hair from MereKat's website. I can't wait to get rid of those pencil lines. |
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This is after laying down some base colors. I believe that it is important to start with base colors, just like when painting miniatures. I also got a chance to play with the Photoshop filters a bit on the moonfire effect, and on Tamynn's eyes. I got from step 1 to here in a single night. I thought that I'd post it for historical purposes. |
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This was my initial pencil sketch. After a couple of false starts, I ended up really happy with the pose. Sometimes, I will continue to shade the sketch. Of course, if I do that, then I have a lot of cleanup to do once I scan the picture. In those cases, I first print off a very light grey "template" copy of the picture. I then proceed to ink the major lines of the template. Then, I scan the template and use it as a basis for my actual work. She has a tail because, like druids in Diablo 2, Druids in WoW can change into animal forms. In particular, they can turn into 2 kinds of bears, 2 kinds of cats, and something called a "moonkin". I particularly like the attack cat form, and I wanted something else to indicate that this character is a druid, so I thought a tail would be best. Unfortunately, it's not possible to run around in the game like this. |
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This is Tamynn as seen inside WoW |
This is one that I worked on for no particular reason. I wanted to draw something "cute", so this is it. The colored version is very much not done, but I thought that it looked really good with the lines overlayed, so I left them.
This is my second try at drawing from photos. I'm much happier with this one, but I still have miles of room for improvement. I think I got the proportions better this time, but that's because I tried drawing this picture twice.
This picture is my first try at doing this. I know that there are a lot of problems. One problem that my friend pointed out to me is that she is looking up too much, when compared to the original. This really messes up the feel of the entire picture. Also, the proportions are terrible. Still, the shading is quite good (when you see the picture in person). I only used a #2 pencil, eraser, and tissues (for blending). When I scanned the picture, some of the typing from the other side of the paper showed through, so I had to fix it up in Photoshop. The edges should get cleaned up a bit.
I drew this in OS class once. I really like it. Getting it to look like she is throwing her head back was kinda tough, and I don't know if I actually pulled it off right. Isn't too bad, though
It took 2 tries to get it right. I think I like the second one a lot more.
I guess, along with the dragon, you need a dwarf. This is an attempt at a dwarf. Unfortunately, I can't draw characters in action. So, he looks like he's posing more than attacking. Yes, I know that he's growing out of a head, but that is what my sketchbook usually looks like.
If you've never seen Chibi, this is probably a bad example. Chibi refers to drawing characters very small with rediculously huge heads. Well, here's the only one I've ever done.
This picture came from an idea of my mom's. Her idea is really good, I'm just not good enough to draw it correctly. So, instead, I drew this. It's not bad, but there are a lot of problems. For one thing, there is no contrast. There are no dark areas. Still, I could use it as a source when I draw the "real" picture.
The picture on the right is something random that I found on the internet. When I saw it, it struck me - that is what I had been trying to draw. Oh, well.
I think I want to redraw this one and color it. I think it would be fun to experiment with depth-of-field on the trees in the background.
I came up with the idea for this bridge a while ago. I think it would go well in a fantasy setting. Basically, there's this huge statue in the center of a crescent-shaped (actually, almost a full circle) harbor. The statue reaches from shore to shore, with bridges balanced on her arms.
A work-in-progress. I think that the look that she has is pretty intense. Well, I think so.
I don't really like this one. It's a bit too crappy. The body proportions are all wrong, and the coloring is terrible. The pose wasn't too bad, though.
A try at making a cat person. Also the first picture I colored in Photoshop. I like it a lot.
This is the first thing I ever colored. I did it in a layerless program, so it was really tough. I still like it, though.
