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Genre/Fandom: drawing exercise, comic
Characters/Pairings: just background scene setting, though there is a cat
Media: pencil, inks, watercolors
Notes/comments: I drew this for this prompt on Slothsdraw. I did the second exercise, and drew a nine panel comic showing fragments of a place that’s supposed to express one of these themes: abandoned, serene, forbidding, welcoming, official, exotic, innocent. I inked and colored my pencils but to safe time I did it on paper not the computer, and unfortunately the cheap paper I drew the pencils on wasn’t really suited for either. Anyway, I scanned the inbetween stages, so pencils, inks and the colored version are all behind the cut, and I hope you can guess the mood at least.
drawing exercise, establishing a mood in a comic, pencils (ca. 100k)
drawing exercise, establishing a mood in a comic, inks (ca. 150k)
drawing exercise, establishing a mood in a comic, watercolors (ca. 172k)
Genre/Fandom: drawing exercise
Characters/Pairings: just slightly fleshed out stick figures
Media: pencil
Notes/comments: I did the body language exercise from this week’s prompts on Slothsdraw., and actually drew all the listed attitudes (pompous, uneasy, impatient, aggressive, tired, humble, stubborn) because drawing the poses turned out rather fun. If you like you could try guessing which is figure is which.
Genre/Fandom: drawing exercise
Characters/Pairings: just balls with different textures
Media: pencil drawing
Notes/comments: I drew this for this prompt on Slothsdraw. I tried the texture practice, taking a ball and trying to make it look like different materials, but with pre-inking in mind, i.e. they are supposed to work as b/w rendering. The success varied.
Genre/Fandom: drawing exercise / DC Comics
Characters/Pairings: Nightwing (Dick Grayson)
Media: pencil drawing, inked with a Wacom tablet in GIMP
Notes/comments: This silhouette practice is sort of fanart. I had Nightwing jumping around in Gotham in mind (or maybe Blüdhaven, what with the lack of gargoyles). I did the pencil drawing and then inked it in GIMP and added a fire escape and roof background that’s vaguely based on a simplified, inked version of two combined photos.
Nightwing patrolling Gotham (DCU), a drawing excercise for practicing silhouettes, pencils (ca. 32k)
Nightwing patrolling Gotham (DCU), a drawing excercise for practicing silhouettes, inks (ca. 64k)
Genre/Fandom: drawing exercise
Characters/Pairings: just stick figures
Media: pencil drawing
Notes/comments: I drew this for this prompt on Slothsdraw. It is a page with more or less proportional stick figures in various positions and movements.
Genre/Fandom: drawing exercise
Characters/Pairings: random objects drawn first from memory, then with reference
Media: pencil drawing
Notes/comments: I did the third exercise from these Slothsdraw prompts, and picked five complex objects, first drawing them from memory, then looking at references and drawing them again. I chose to draw a beach chair, an electric drill, a turntable, a microscope, and a hole puncher. I c&p’ed all sketches into one image for easier posting, the first attempts on the left, the ones after looking at references on the right.
drawing exercise, random objects drawn first from memory, then with reference (ca. 196k)
Genre/Fandom: drawing exercise
Characters/Pairings: original character
Media: pencil drawing
Notes/comments: I drew this for one of these prompts on Slothsdraw, and picked two of these seven emotions to draw: confident, uncertain, frustrated, hurt (emotionally), flirtatious, mischievous, and tired. So, can you guess which ones I picked?
drawing exercise, facial expression practice (ca. 96k)
drawing exercise, facial expression practice 2 (ca. 76k)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: Ginny Weasley
Media: pencil drawing, colored in GIMP
Notes: When I asked for character/emotion prompts to practice expressions, Dragovianknight asked for “Ginny Weasley, shocked.” The irises aren’t quite equal in size, which obviously looks weird, but by the time I actually noticed that, I was at a stage in the coloring already where I would have had to redo a lot of stuff *headdesk*, so considering that this is more a sketch than an elaborate drawing I decided to be lazy and just live with it. Also, I’ve never drawn Ginny, but I still hope it looks both like her and shocked.
shocked Giny Weasley, initial pencils — screen resolution (ca. 40k)
shocked Giny Weasley, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 42k)
Fandom: Marvel (X-Men)
Characters/Pairings: Ororo Munroe (Storm)
Media: pencil drawing, colored in GIMP
Notes: When I asked for prompts to practice drawing emotions, Catmoran suggested “Storm, happily surprised.” This is the first time I tried drawing Storm, and I noticed that I have no clue what Ororo’s natural eye color is when they’re not all glowy white while she controls weather. Since it is much harder to convey emotions in eyes without pupils I wanted to draw her with regular eyes and decided on green without bothering with further research (I know, bad comic fan, no cookie), since I figured that those fit better with freaky witch-like superpowers than plain brown eyes. Anyway, I hope this nevertheless looks vaguely like Storm, and like happy surprise.
Storm, happily surprised, pencils — screen resolution (ca. 56k).
Storm, happily surprised, finished drawing — screen resolution (ca. 53k).
