Izzy's Illustrations

For my next drawing, I decided to return to my social media roots - that is, making Minecraft: Story Mode content! Deciding on drawing Petra was obviously a no brainer; she's by far my favourite character, and it's been too long since I've last drawn her!

I tried learning from some mistakes in my first shared artwork. For one, I struggled with proper shading, so I coloured in the background before I started colouring Petra herself (this was mildly successful, although the background itself kind of hurts my eyes, lmao). Also, someone on Reddit suggested I look out for body proportions, which I tried to do here, too. I was slightly less successful here, although at least I did better in drawing muscle/tone than I have in the past. I'll definitely keep working on it, though.

Here's some mid-process photos I took (sketch, outline-sketch, and outline, respectively):

At last, here's the full colour-in for my drawing from last week! You can find that post here: https://www.tumblr.com/izzys-illustrations/821037899125538816/artwork-1-lucina-and-laurent-in-battle-rough

Overall, I'm kind of... meh about how this turned out. I definitely could have done a lot worse, but I still definitely have a long way to go when it comes to shading in colouring, lol. Next time, I'll probably draw the background first - I probably would have done a lot better with realising where the shading and lighting would go, and I could've also done something more detailed than a simple sky and patch of grass.

If anyone has any other tips on how I could improve - I'm not just asking for them, I'm demanding you give them to me. I desperately want to improve! Insult the artwork if you have to! If you have 100 tips/criticisms and only give me 5 because you don't want to hurt my feelings... I would very much prefer you give me as many tips as possible, even if it stings, lmao. (But don't insult me personally - that won't help with my art, unfortunately.)

Also, you'll notice that I've signed the artwork with "randomality77", as that is the name of my main blog, as well as my username on so many other social medias. I decided to use this blog for art stuff, so I could keep my main blog free for shitposts and the occasional in-depth character analysis. I'll share this drawing, as well as some of my favourites in the future, on @randomality77, but yeah this is my secondary blog.

Once again, I just really wanted to show appreciation for these characters. I love them both, and I love the ship - it's so fricking sweet, and as I said last week, painfully underrated. (Also, Laurent's hair is brown because I also often pair Miriel with Frederick, lol.)

At the moment, I really suck at colouring, so I always take photos of the art before colouring (in case I ruin it). First is the final sketch, second is the outline with sketch, third is outline without sketch, and final is outline with basic shading.

I'll still post the final result no matter how it turns out.

Hi! I made this blog a while ago but never had the chance to use it, because I fell out of the habit of drawing. Well, it's coming back! I've been doing fanarts much more frequently, but I don't want to overload my main blog with them, so I'll post them all here.