Originally meant for a contest that was supposed to close today, but apparently the creator meant that that they would not be accepting any more entries on the 28 of October. Oh well. I pushed my self to finish it but I guess it was not enough.
In any case since it will be Halloween I decided to post it anyways. I’m still taking a bit of a break so I wont be posting any more videos till the end of the this week. Hope you guys look forward to that.
The drawing it self looked a whole lot better without color. I feel that when it comes to drawing backgrounds, color pencils have a major drawback. I am in serious need of some Copic’s. When I draw characters in color pencil, I can manage since I can add as much detail as I want, but when the area is too large (which most background are), it takes far too much effort and time to make it look “incredible”. I’ll have to find a solution to this…
request by: XxHayateNoGotokuFanX
I finally got the request to draw Zero and Yuki together, the problem, I have never had to draw a kissing scene before. So this definitely was tough to execute. There are many things one has to pay attention to. The first is the of course the lips interlocking. There were a couple of references in the manga but not enough to make things easier on me. And I wanted to make it a bit different to give it my “touch”. Another obstacle was the positions of the head, so that the noses do not bump into each other they tend to go against each other sideways. But I decided to try something a bit different and have them face each other directly. The reason was because of the eyes. I wanted them to look at each other. Kind of like the moment just before they part from each other. Kissing then opening their eyes till they finally let go. I feel it is this kind of feeling I managed to draw.
I didn’t really have much of a plan when drawing, which I believe shows in the video. I was really lost as to how to position everything. In the end I had to just draw it out, if it worked leave it, if not then keep modifying it till it works. The hardest part was definitely the eyes. For onething their expressions were hard to imagine. It would definitely look good with eyes closed but what about when they are open? This was where I used up most of my time (specially on Yuki’s eye). The expressions were really tough, but eventually I managed to pull through. But I don’t feel it is good enough, I’ll have to think about them a bit till I manage to get them right at some point…
(SPOILER, kind of)
I decided to go with their looks from the latest chapters which is why Yuki’s hair is so short. Since it was kind of new I found it a bit hard to draw. Zero’s on the other hand was fairly simple. What I’ve noticed is that he looks a little too young, maybe I made his head too small? Finding reference pictures of him in his vest was a little painful since there aren’t that many. Luckily I found a lot starting from chapter 82.
It seems it is that time again, I have to take a break for at least a week then I will continue again. It seems like my drawings are suffering greatly from their full potential so I really have no choice. I apologize to those who are still awaiting their request.
Hope you enjoy it,
I can’t really say much about this drawing, from what I gathered Rias Gremory and Issei Hyoujou comes from an ecchi series about demons …..
This drawing was extremely annoying to do. There were just so many things to do and because of the “content” of the internet I found it hard to find good reference pictures to use. In the end I managed to sort of find them, but I still allowed my fatigue mess around with the drawing. The biggest blunder was definitely making Rias’s legs too short, I tried to do the impossible to fix them. I somehow managed but it still looks a bit off. I also did not add the final mixing techniques when coloring, although this way it does give it a rough look. I’m seriously surprised it took me almost five hours to do this. I definitely need to buy a spare battery soon.
I’ll start off by saying that I want to enter this into the “Professional” category.
The characters are from Kingdom Hearts (specifically Sora and Riku) and the the other character in the tv screen is Obscurus (my Original Character). I’ve also added a photo of Kairi in a poster posted on the wall (giving the impression that she is an idol, or something similar).
I don’t know how others see things when playing games, but I feel like I am right along side Sora (or Riku in the latest installments) on his adventures. In other words we are “hanging out with each other” (sorry I know the description is kinda weak, but I hope you guys get the point). So I thought I would reverse the position and make it seem like Sora and Riku are playing alongside Obscurus on his adventure. In this case Sora and Riku are playing versus mode. Riku having beaten Sora too many times decides to play blindfolded and is still sweeping the floor with him.
request by: XxCherryAngel
Sadly another unfinished drawing today. I was running out of time because of various circumstances, and had to stay up really late just to upload it. It was so bad I actually had to leave my computer on so that I could go to sleep. But never the less I managed to upload it. There really isn’t much I have to fix, it is just a matter of adding some darkening in some areas especially the hair so that there is more contrast and just plain looks much better. Despite that final step I’d say this is definitely one of my best works. The drawing although it did take me a bit of time was actually not too bad. I had decided to work on speed drawings but after noticing that such actions really hurt my work and thus ruining the video I decided to just draw normally and eventually and naturally get faster and more efficient. To no surprise after a year I can produce some good quality work with little to no effort. I have yet to master coloring but I’d say it does not look too bad at the moment. In time I am sure to get better.
In any case, although I have not seen Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann I have heard of Yoko Ritona. The internet and Youtube is filled with her, so it is kind of hard to have not at least seen a picture of her. Whatever my feelings and thoughts may be, I actually was excited to draw her. Hopefully I did not dissapoint.
request by: rilly2222
This drawing was strangely easy and hard at the same time. While doing the main outline I was actually breezing through quite nicely. It did not look too good but I knew that I could just fix that once I added some shading.
While finishing up Tomoyo and started on Kotomi things started to get complicated. No matter what I did it just did not seem right. Despite knowing the problem I just wanted to try and see if I could perform the impossible of making it look good but I guess that just was not going to happen. In the end I decided to just give up and fix the problem once and for all so I could move on to the rest of the drawing. That dilemma was of course the eyes, once you see the video it should be very apparent.
There were actually a couple of details I have to fix like the overall head size of Kotomi and add some more detail to make it seem like Tomoyo and Kotomi are walking past each other while someone is taking a picture. I have not seen the anime or read the novel but from the information I gathered I figured it would happen something like this.
So here we have another drawing for another contest that popped up. I want to say thanks to LittleBabyDollxx for giving me the info otherwise i wouldn’t even have known about it.
The theme revolved around the usage of three characters each from one of these series; One Piece (definitely one of my all time favorites), Fairy Tail (Hiro Mashima has not disappointed me yet, I became a fan from his last work Rave Master), and Naruto.
I decided to make it revolve as a battle, but because I only really know about Luffy and Natsu (I did not really get into Naruto when I read a couple of volumes, maybe I’ll give it another chance sometime in the future) I put Naruto as kind of filler. The back story goes something like this; Luffy and Natsu want to find out who is strongest and prove themselves to their respective comrades and the world, while Naruto fought some strong foe (I’ll let you guys use your knowledge and imagination to come up with someone) and won, but still got battle scarred. As he lay on the beach he was to witness an amazing battle by two of the worlds strongest warriors.
Personally I think the drawing looks much better without a background. Reason being that I felt I rushed the beach a bit too much and thus sacrificed a lot of the details. I don’t feel it looks too bad, but it does not meld well with the three figures. I would have to add some color to the lighting that touch Luffy, Natsu and Naruto so that they looked natural. But seeing as I only had one day to work on it, and if I added such details I would lose time and maybe not get the chance to turn something in. Although incomplete this piece should be sufficient (or so I hope).
request by: Soul000Eater
For this weeks requests we have Mephisto and Amaimon from Blue Exorcist which is a really good series.
I wanted to give a simpler kind of drawing and yet make it a cross between realistic and manga styled. The result is not something extraordinary but it doesn’t look too bad either. I wonder if when I’ll be able to master this style? I’m sure I could accomplish it if I added more time to the drawing but I want to bring it out easily and swiftly.
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