take 2 (oh tumblr you're so!! bdnbh n fdjknjdbshfdjn)
hey guys I spent like 40 minutes making an art progress post for my birthday illustration HAHAHA but tumblr just GOT RID of IT HAHAHA!!! Anyway this will be short and sweet and if I care I'll edit it later 😁💕
my sketch was really bad looking at it now ngl but I'm really happy with it,,, I had a habit of only caring that what I envisioned in my head got down onto the canvas, so if I really struggled with drawing the pose from my reference, I would outline the ref and go from there. Which isn't bad for learning purposes? But I wasn't exactly learning from it, it was more of an easy out. I want to start planning every little bit of my art process from now. Trying with the anatomy, posing, gesturing, line art, everything!! That's why I like this illustration because the only thing I outlined was the hand kekeke
The line art is my favorite part of this drawing hehe. I think I did a good job of transforming my sketch. I used a reference for the sweater folds and oh boy it came out nice.
After the line art tho, I had no idea what I wanted to do. It was 10 oclock at night two hours before my birthday was technically over so I was trying so hard to lock in 🙏 I love the look of the filled in grey on a white bg tho it gives off such neat animatic vibes im in love. I added grayscale shading just to see what it would look like and I ended up keeping it hehe
ALSO small rant but OH my gosh one of my favorite webtoons "Our Secret Alliance" does this incredibly cute thing that Im ABSOLUTELY in love with... The author doesn't draw the characters with different eye colors, just single black eyes with a white highlight. But, whenever there's a touching or sweet moment, a small hint of pink or light grey is added to the bottom of the eyes and its like AAAhAHAH I LOVE ITT IT ADDS SUCH CLEAR EMOTION IN SUCH A SIMPLE ADDITION 😭😭😭💕💕
look at this... I eat this up
I played around with a lot of gradients to try to keep it simple, but I did want to add color so I ended up scrapping the left one. The colors on the right are drastically different than the final one btw keke
The hair came out really well compared to how it usually ends up cuz oh my gosh I have had like a 6 year long battle with hair rendering and the war never stops
the skin wasn't too hard. I sometimes struggle with it cuz like it ends up being so simple that I'm like ??? what's goin on,,, all I do is at the blush and lip color then bam
I do wish I rendered the cake a bit more lol it stands out a little now that I'm looking at it.
I love how this came out... it didn't take that long to do in retrospect but it was a slow grueling process to me keke
here's the final speed paint! and the reason the sketch process isn't there is because I accidentally deleted the other canvas it was on after transferring to a new canvas :}