Zanime: February 2013

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.