#valtomdrawingchallenge

Alright, I did some shading practice! These are darker on my paper than the scanner makes them out to be (darn technology) but what do you all think? I used a technique where instead of shading dark first and then light (as I had been), I tried shading light first and then darkening. I think it turned out better for it.

And now for some digital drawing! In case you didn’t know, I’m spearheading the @gffanshorts project, and currently working on storyboards for it. So I did a lot of that today, and tried my “hand” at making a hand! It’s supposed to be Mabel...I don’t know if you can tell?

Sorry it’s taking me a while to upload my drawings! But I’ve been getting them done. Here’s a flower that I drew, trying to sketch out the face and then shading the stem with a tortillon.

In the meantime, if you have more experience than I do, I’d love to have your critiques and tips. 

Today I decided to go with something small. I used my tortillon to try and shade this...thing. I meant for it to be a pipe against a background. Really I was just trying to explore and see how I could use a tortillon and eraser.

I did something unusual for today’s drawing...I spent nearly five hours putting together this rough animation of Bill Cipher! This was drawn and shot in Catherwood Library.

Decided to switch gears and try designing a cartoon! This is based on my plush fox named Sir Socks. What do you all think of him? I’m considering trying to put him in some kind of short comic...