11th July I can't draw today for some reason. I came up with this: Which turned to: But I couldn't complete the lineart without royally cocking it up so I just moved onto other endeavors. Made a rather cute little Beemo avatar: And I think I will continue playing with the shading on this program. I haven't quite got it down yet: Or I'll make more sketches to colour tomorrow :D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12th July Just ended up sketching some more today rather than colouring. Trying to explore angles and perspective because full on frontals are boring and not very production. Quite a couple of pics so hide tags are necessary. [hide] Le girl body: Le girl sketch: Woman running: Shepherd-commander: Dude standing: James Vega!: Woman shooting: Woman shooting sketch: Guy sitting: Guy sitting sketch: [/hide] Not great but I'm learning. I don't really remember what the armors from Mass Effect look like but it was something like that. It goes a little iffy when it comes to sketching mainly because I'm thinking 'What the hell should I draw that's not Runescape?!'. I run out of imagination at that stage. Then I think to myself, 'let's draw Runescape stuff that is not Bandos armor' and that's a huge fail because just what is going on with the new armor? But now that I'm writing about it with my tablet packed away, I have tons of ideas hitting me in the face. Why Brain, why??? I guess I'll write down what I'm thinking of now and open up the list tomorrow. Hint: Prepare for the sailing of the moons. No point making a new post if it hasn't got something epic in it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13th July So kids, today we're experimenting with extreme angles! [hide] The body: The sketch: The lineart: The colour: [/hide] What is lamus maximus is that I forgot to colour his eyes, colours his eyebrows, do his other arm and his nails. I can't really get my tablet out now so I'll have to finish it off later (famous last words). I'm not really getting the hang of face shading buh-buh-buh-but practice will make perfect. I am sort of getting the hang of it. Hopefully I can draw the sailing of the moons tomorrow but I did just check out a pretty good book from the library. Oh yeah... Circles are really hard to draw! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 17th July Super-duper humongous post! I feel like I'm finally making some progress. I know how to rid of black lines now and let me say, it makes quite a difference. Hidetags because I have a bunch of images. [hide] The body: The sketch: The lineart: The colour: [/hide] To round this image dump up nicely. The shading with lines visible: The shading without lines visible: Yeah she's supposed to be doing that bow-legged pose all teenage girls do when they cutely pose for a picture. I ended doing the lineart very thick by accident, I was zoomed in and didn't realise how it looked by the time I zoomed back out. That's what prompted me to remove it. It does make a nice difference and I think I'll be doing this in the future, eventhough I took out too much time of my life. If anyone can tell, I've been practicing hands like I said I would. Only I don't have the evidence to back that up...