Everything else

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The emotions

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The scenery

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The comics

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The experiments

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The animals

I actually did a lot of drawing during the first few weeks of my March/April holiday, but all of it was for Liv's birthday present, which was a secret until recently. That secret has been revealed, so my next few posts will give a taste of my latest output.

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Study break

I actually drew this last week, but hadn't got around to scanning it.

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Mandy Moore

A bunch of different textures to play with here, and I'm pleased with how it worked.

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Karate queen

My usual outlining, before gradually adding some detail:

I was going to finish here, but that's really nothing new:

so I decided to add in some background to make it a more complete picture:

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Lean and snarl

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Commitment

Even though I've upped my drawing patience quota, I've still been hesistant to commit to anything more than faces. But laziness like that isn't going to improve my skills, so today I've finally taken on a larger challenge. Below are 4 points on the 90 minute journey to a finished product. Luckily I'm fairly happy with how it's turned out, hopefully giving me the impetus to keep moving forward.









There is one significant error, see if you can pick it :)

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That's right, another smile

Quite clearly I'm all about the happy faces...

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Return

It had been far too long since I'd drawn anything, due to heat and/or illness, so I'm glad I've finally managed to get back to it :)

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X-Files

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I'm a water feature

Right now there are only two people in the entire world who understand this. If you're not one of them, feel free to add your own interpretation. For Em and Liv, thanks for making what could have been an awful, self-pitying Friday into an excellent friend-filled start to the Christmas break :)

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Kristin Kreuk

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Surprise

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Amy Acker

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Aishwarya Rai

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Ali Larter

Number 6 in my set of attempts to get one of my drawings to actually look like Ali Larter. I think I'm almost there...

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Katie Melua

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Alicia Silverstone

Now I wasn't absolutely sure that all the fundamental practice I'd been doing, to re-learn some key techniques for drawing (including my weakest area - patience), was going to pay off. But I could not be happier with how this turned out, and from my POV I think it now takes the mantle of my best ever picture :)

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More anime

Today's entry from my Drawspace.com exercises:

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Anime

I drew an Astroboy picture back in high school, but this is only the second anime style drawing I've done. Again, it's constructed using step-by-step instructions on Drawspace.com

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Koala

This one's mostly about symmetry and the technique of using many small curved lines to represent fur. Turned out well, I think.

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A horse walks into a bar...

This is simply an extension of the earlier exercise in identifying basic shapes and proportions, and then gradually building detail on them, including appropriate shading.

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Gremlin

If you can follow the steps to draw this face, you can probably draw every other portrait I've done, since all the framework and shading techniques I've used for earlier drawings are used right here.

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Optical illusion

Can you see the goblet? Can you see the faces? If this optical illusion is new to you I'd be stunned. However, I'd never drawn one before, and this is based on a real profile from my photo reference collection. It's surprisingly hard to get even as close to a proper reflection as I managed!

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