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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.

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...

Whew! I shaded that outline from Day 2, and here it is! I also started using a tortillon, and I think it turned out well. Please, leave me any critiques/tips you think may be helpful.

Along the top, I tried going without a hard outline. What do you all think?