I've been trying to sketch almost everyday so I can feel like I'm doing at least one art related thing everyday. I've been using my tablet (Samsung Note 10.1 2012 ver) and the Autodesk Sketchbook Pro app to draw these. I find it more convenient to draw it like this as opposed to traditional pencil and paper (though nothing beats the OG stuff). Being more of a traditional artist, I've never really been taught or trained much in the digital media but I rely on it a lot in the process of my work. It allows me to edit, add, resize, etc. before I translate/transfer them on traditional media.

The sketches above are examples of how drawing digitally has been useful in composing figures. The first two figures are drawn from the same 5 reference pictures except each figure has taken a different facial feature from one of the 5 pictures. The only thing they share are the eyebrows from the same person from one of the reference pictures. BTW, referencing is NOT cheating if you know how to use it properly.

Next, I did this sketch of my husband and I doing what we call "turtle face" (it's the new duck face!). The original picture was of very bad quality, taken with a Nintendo DS, and my husband was sitting far back in the picture which made his face smaller than mine. So I fixed it by drawing it in its original proportions, then resized my husband's face to make his face the same size as mine.

Lastly, the figures are the same drawing but with the "magic" of layering, I can easily add glasses to the figure without redrawing the whole figure again. I can also change hair, facial structure, etc. easily as well. It's time saving and no wasting paper. LoL

I have now made this Tumblr as my official artist blog for my website. I don't know why I didn't thought of that before. LoL Please follow me as well as my website. Thank you.

"Hey friend"

Here is my newest watercolor!

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Hey friend! (2013)

16 x 20 inches

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