New Markers!

My Petar friend gave me a 100-pack of pretty new markers to play with this Christmas..... for this I love him dearly.

Well, I mean, I already did, but

Orea ( the one on the left! ) is his.

Kyler and Acton

I drew them at school! Because I have no time to draw on my own anymore.....

I love designing people. C:

Miss Jenny Magenta!

EDIT: I ended up inking it, and colouring it on the computer! Don't forget to click on it to see the little details. C:

The sketch of a drawing I've been working on for my friend Jenny's birthday invitation...

If she likes it I'll be inking and colouring it shortly. C:

LOOKIT MY MANS

See, I told you I would practice!

I found it difficult to find good examples of OVERWEIGHT men, so here are a couple of MUSCULAR and SKINNY men. I know it isn't much... this was mostly to get an idea of what kinds of shapes are in male figures.

Not very many.

I want to draw giiiiiirls......

THINGS I NEED TO WORK ON:
- Shoulders ( especially when connecting to the neck )

- Abs ( they don't quite look natural... maybe play with shading a bit? )

- Biceps, etc. I've always had trouble with that part of the arm...

Let's figure this out.

I've recently noticed that everybody I draw.... are the same person. Every feature is the same! Every arm, every leg, every eye, nose, mouth... So I decided to fix this.

I have drawn the three most basic groups of people - women, men, and children - to try and figure out where things have gone wrong and strengthen my weaker points.

WOMEN

With each practice page I have started out with face shapes. Faces are what I draw first, and what I'm best at! I have always found women easiest draw, but making their bodies look different from one another is way too challenging. I definitely need work on petite frames.

MEN

....Needs some work. Again, faces are easiest to draw, but the bodies! The problem is, they are way too simple. The more detailed something is, or the more shape there is, the easier I can grasp something and work with it on paper. Men will be a challenge.

CHILDREN

Children I found to be the easiest. I usually never draw children, so this came as a wonderful surprise. Ahh, the 90's... dead birds and curly shoelaces.

In the end, I figured out what I needed work on:

- Legs. When standing still, legs are very hard to draw in a natural-looking position, and the thighs:calves ratio I've always had trouble with.

- Torsos for men.

- Petite frames for women, plus women with healthy body weights. I have become used to drawing them as toothpicks. I sure as hell am not rail-thin, but I am not obese either. How can I find the balance there to make a realistic girl rather than what people seem to want to be?

More next week. C: