Zanime: 2013

Monday, 16 September 2013

Some of My Favourite Drawings

Monday, 22 July 2013

Anime Drawing to Animation Drawing

At the beginning of last term, I started taking an Animation Drawing class with a famous (well, ...at least in Australia) animation artist as the teacher. The four hour train trip up the Blue Mountains and back was worth it, because I really enjoyed the two hour class

This is what I have been drawing ever since.

2013 © Susannah Sylvester

Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Trees

This is what happens when someone gives me a Wacom (or I just pull it out of my desk draw) and a good program for drawing on the computer.

Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Something New

I really like the prince, Chang Hui, from the Korean drama Hong Gil Dong, not just because he is my favourite Korean actor, but because ... just because.

Instead of just drawing the head and shoulders and leaving the background white and blank, which is what I normally do, I drew a full body with a background this time.

I was sitting and staring at my drawing when I realised that he looks a tiny-weeny little bit like Suzaku Kururugi from Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. You can see where I get my inspiration!

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Something Different

I have noticed, with my drawings, that all the characters have almost the same colour brown hair and either blue or green eyes. Last Sunday I did something totally different - I gave my character red eyes and blackish blue hair, just to give him that scary look.

On the other side of this picture is the same guy, but he is not coloured in yet.

Wednesday, 6 March 2013

A Bit of Time, A Pen & Some Paper

I had a half hour snack break before my assessment on Tuesday. I had my notepad that I was taking notes on during class, and I had my pen to write those notes. I ate some watermelon and a strawberry and a couple of pecans and pistachios and then started to doodle.

First I drew a beanie, then the hair. The beanie wasn't sitting on the hair properly so I fixed it up as much as I could with a pen without a rubber. A face started to happen after the hair and then there was a boy. I then drew a female looking jaw, then some girlish hair and then a beanie on top and there was a girl.

That night, I scanned the picture onto my computer and started colouring it in digitally.
I fixed some proportions of where the beanies are sitting on their heads.

Monday, 25 February 2013

A female character

A couple of Sundays ago one of my friends from church asked me if I could draw a picture for her. I said yes and then had absolutely no inspiration to draw anything for about a week.

One Sunday, which was probably last Sunday, I drew a girl. A female character. (I don't normally draw girls.) So I thought to myself, I could give this one to her (my friend). After I drew the outline during the sermon like usual, I showed it to my friend after the service. She liked it, so in the evening service I started colouring it in. The colours that I wanted weren't in my pencil case so I only coloured the polka dots on the character's ribbon that is in her hair.

After five days I pulled out my 72 set of Derwent watercolour pencils and art book and started colouring in the character's dress and then at church I finished it. I coloured in the hair and gave the drawing to my friend.

Saturday, 16 February 2013

I have been inspired

Yesterday I was completely inspired by the anime characters Lelouch Lamperouge from Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion and Sebastian Michaelis from Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler). I just had to draw something, I couldn't let this inspiration go with out drawing something. So I drew a somewhat scary looking dude in a hood. Not only was I practicing drawing a hood, but I practiced tracing my hand and getting the head the right size to look in proportion to his hand.

The position he is in was inspired by Sebastian Michaelis from Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) and his eye, mouth and dark character was inspired by Lelouch Lamperouge from Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion.
It's a pity that this inspiration only lasted one day and not a few days.

Hat and a wrinkly hood

For the last few Sundays at church I have been drawing a picture in the morning service, then colouring it in in the evening service. Sometimes, I can draw another picture as well as colour in the one I drew earlier, but that isn't very often. Some pictures I have drawn have taken a couple of weeks to draw and colour in. This is one of them.

Monday, 4 February 2013

Trying to draw a good hood

A few days ago, I was watching some of Mark Crilley's How To Draw videos on Youtube and was inspired to draw a guy in a hoodie.
I pulled out my art book and my pencils and I started drawing, but the first character I drew ended up wearing headphones instead of a hood.

So I drew another one - this time inspired by the anime Hyouka. With this one, I know where I went wrong. I didn't draw the hair and face first. I drew the hood first, so it also ended up looking like his face is either very small or a bit squashed.

The third picture I drew was at church, and it looks better than the other two, but the more I look at it, the more his eyes get wonky and his nose gets longer.

Tuesday, 15 January 2013

A drawing that took me two Sundays to finish

A couple of Sundays ago, at church, I started to draw a picture while listening to the sermon. By the end of the sermon, I had only drawn the sketch of the character, so that Sunday night when I was at church listening to the sermon I coloured some parts of the character in, but it wasn't finished. I still needed to colour the skin and the hair and I needed to do some shading on the clothing.

Over the week I forgot about my drawing and didn't finish colouring it in.

Last Sunday, at church, when I opened my sketchbook, so I could draw and listen to the sermon (which was well spoken by the minister), I saw the picture I had drawn the week before and started to colouring it in again. I coloured in the skin and the hair and did the shading on the clothing and then started doing a background, but the sermon ended before I could finish the background, so I left it and finished the background that evening while listening to the sermon.

I like this picture quite a bit.

Monday, 7 January 2013

Notebook Drawings

In class, one day I was waiting for the teacher to set up the speakers to her computer so that we could watch a DVD about the different kinds of catalogue searches libraries use. I had my notebook out ready to take some notes. By the time the teacher had plugged in the speakers, I had drawn a character from my head and was ready to colour it in.

When the DVD had finished, I went home by train. After I had been sitting on the train listening to my iPod for a while I remembered that I had drawn a picture, so I pulled my notebook and some coloured pencils out of my back pack and started colouring it in.
I got home, cut him out of my note book and stuck him into my black papered art book.

This is the finished result.

Thursday, 3 January 2013

Doodling at Church

When I have absolutely no inspiration to draw an anime/manga person at church I usually end up doodling or scribbling out some random shapes and colouring them in.

I can't really remember where I got the idea for this picture, but mum was drawing one and it looked pretty awesome, so I decided to draw one too.

My church is a Cross-Culture Bible Church and this picture is of the church's logo and I just copied and coloured it in with a couple of gell-pens.

This one is just random shapes that I made into some pretty flowers.