Step By Step Drawing 1.4

So it's been over a week since I last posted the progress of this drawing. Mostly because I didn't know where to go next... by that I mean I didn't have any direction as to what was going to be in the background. I really just started drawing this girl, and figured something would come to mind.

I got these markers recently. They're the kind people use for crafting, scrap booking and whatnot. I thought, what can I really do with them? So I decided to use them in this drawing. I've never used them before and don't really know any of the quirks involved with mixing them with ink. Hopefully it wont ruin the drawing but we'll have to wait and see in the next post.

Anyways, on to the drawing.

I finally finished filling in the colors that were off on her. And I went over alot of the lines in and around her body. You can see the pencil sketches of the spaces where I'm going to be drawing something in.

Ok, so it may look rough but this next part kind of took me longer than I thought. It was a really hard decision to draw in all the lines before coloring the area. The markers I'm going to be using are so strong that they just completely cover over everything leaving no sign there was anything underneath at all. I guess that's because they're leafing markers.

The next step will probably be the hardest and most labor intensive because I'm going to have to slowly and precisely (well not that precise, but you get what I mean) color in small areas, while at the same time still leaving the pencil marks that I will then be filling in with ink. It's kind of hard to explain but you'll be able to see what I mean in the next post. The idea here is for the spaces to look metallic.

I don't know, but I hope it works.

Step by Step Drawing 1.3

In this picture I fixed some of the lines a little bit and went over most of the hair with a thicker tip. I think it really helped to give the hair some depth. I also added the first layer of color.

Step 5

The next picture is almost complete, well the girl at least. I need to touch it up a little bit, you can kind of see some spots but it's mostly done. Now I just need to add a background or something(?) I'm still not sure what to do with it.

Step 6

On a side note, if you notice in this post, compared to the last two ones, the quality and color look alot better. That's because the drawings were scanned wireless so I think the image quality wasn't as good so I connected my laptop directly to the scanner and you can immediately see the difference in quality.

Step By Step Drawing 1.2

At first I wasn't sure how to draw the hair, meaning that I didn't know whether or not to keep it simple with straight lines like I had planned to. So instead I just sort of used the rough sketch as a guideline and just started filling it in and see how it would come out. The result is a mix of my usual cross hatching.... That's exactly what I was trying to get away from doing, but I knew that I'd eventually get to that point. I'm going to limit the cross hatching to the hair and nowhere else.

Step 3

I just finished it up to this point this morning. There's alot more detail, and some of the lines were made bolder. It's coming together better than I was hoping for. Now all I need to do is finish it by touching it up and adding more depth and maybe a background or something.

Step 4

Step by Step Drawing 1

Originally this blog was supposed to help me with drawing everyday... that is, to help by getting me to draw everyday more or less. At first it was more, now it's unfortunately become less and less.

This post is a good example of what I was originally going to be doing. Now that I have a proper scanner setup, time, and my interest has peaked, I've decided to chronicle a drawing I started working on this past Monday. It isn't finished yet, but I'm going to try and post the progress. Well, at least scan the progress and post it afterwards.

Step 1 (more like 2 actually... read below)

I had a rougher version of this, a sketched out one, but when I scanned it most of it didn't come out. I think it has to do with the pencil not being picked up. When I messed with it in Photoshop I could see some of the indentation of the drawing, but no graphite. Her hair expands in the drawing above, but like I said, the scanner didn't quite get it.

Step 2

Here I filled in more of the hair and went over some of the lines. If you've ever heard of, or seen, any of Moebius' work you can see the influences here. Actually that's the style that I've been dabbling alot with lately (clear, solid lines with little to almost none, or non-existent, shading at all). His drawings are so smooth and fluid, he's probably my favorite artist. I guess that's because he does the kind of art I also do, illustration.

Anyways, that's it for now but I'll be updating the next steps of the drawing. Hopefully it comes out the way I want it to in the end. But if it doesn't at least I'll be able to go back and alter the previous image(s) digital, which is something I rarely ever do, if it all.

Finished Bertrand Russell Portrait (with Quote)

So for some reason I haven't really been drawing as much as I'd like to lately. I think it has alot to with the art show and all the work I did at the last minute that kind of turned me off to it. But really though, I had been in a considerable drought even for me.

The other night though for some reason I decided to finish a drawing I had started a while back in my Moleskine sketchbook. It was already my favorite drawing in the book but became even more so when I completed it. It's a portrait of Bertrand Russell, philosopher and logician, along with a quote of his that I not only like, but fits the space rather nicely.