I started watching classic Doctor Who when I was still in school, and now I’ve fallen back into it.

shadows of the harbour

🇫🇷 Croquis rapide de mon chat le soir avant d'aller dormir, il aime bien regarder (sentir) à travers les volets la fenêtre ouverte, sur carnet de croquis A6.

How I draw Raphael and Astarion. Idk if these guides are actually helpful (these old mfs are hard to draw) but these are observations I’ve made over the course of a year of drawing them.

Tips from experience: practice tracing over screenshots, study their unique proportions. Pay attention to angles. Defining smile lines and wrinkles using highlights, not just shadows, is a good tip to making their skin three-dimensional and not look too weathered and old. I’m a makeup nerd. Think highlight & contours. Emphasize bumps, ridges, valleys of their features using tonal contrast. But not too much.

Practice drawing noses with a circle at the tip like the first image of Raph. I found it helps outline the curve that dips down to the upper lip, and to understand that the cartilage caps over the nostrils (i .e. the nostrils are more like recessed cavities, not a hole 🕳️ .)

I’m happy to answer any comments or questions 🙈 and let me know if there’s any interest in making more of these (like Astarion’s front profile)