Almost finished

I just need to shade the skin and shoes then it's done. What do you think so far? Is the shading too choppy?

Maria

P.S. sorry for the great delay, I wish I could make it up by an amazing graphic but this is not really worth the wait :(

An old drawing to keep the blog active

I won't explain much because I'll go to bed early and use ALL DAY (or as much of it as I'm allowed to) on graphics tomorrow.
I'm sorry for the bad quality, I can't be bothered to turn on the printer and actually scan any of my drawings.

I really like the pose, clothes, hair and stuff. I'm not very good at backgrounds though.

Btw is it fine that I do little updates like this or should I only post every time I have something REALLY important to say? What do you prefer? :)

Maria

Right now I'm working on...

I know, not much is done yet. I'm really busy at school, and I had a lot of homework for the weekend (and used the rest of the time to relax) but I promise to work more on it as soon as I can.

This was just to keep the blog updated :)

Maria

3D stuff that I've been working on lately

I haven't forgotten about the graphic requests, but I have had very little time after starting at school again. (This week I went to school for the first time in over a month because of something called a lockout, a conflict where the teachers of the whole country aren't allowed to go to work.) It wasn't easy to get used to it after such a long break, and we have much more homework after missing a month of lessons.
I have some time for drawing in the bus and in the breaks at school, but making graphics looks really weird to someone who hasn't seen it before, especially when you are using a reference image and you switch between your version and the original.
I used this time to get better a using Google SketchUp, which is a free 3D drawing program. This is what I've been working on for, like, the last 3 days. (it's obviously not finished, the house needs a kitchen and bathroom and I need to colour the front door) Other than that, I've left some of the walls transparent on purpose, so you can look in. I might add a roof when the house is finished, but then it won't be as easy to see the details.

This was the first time I tried to record something on the screen, did it turn out all right?

And what do you think about my house so far? :D

Maria

P.S. I have just realized that the video quality is very bad, but I don't know if I can do anything about it. I'm sorry!

Graphic/digital art/sketch/whatever-you-call-it tutorial

As I promised in my last post, this is a tutorial of my most recent graphic. I'll try to keep it short and simple. If you have any questions, you are always welcome to ask.

What you need:
- A drawing/editing program. I use Gimp for most of my graphics, but I used Pixlr (Editor) for this one. It's online and free, so you don't have to install anything.
- A tablet. I don't know if you can do it without, it will be really difficult.


1. Idea/reference

You need to know what exactly you are going to draw, or at least have some sort of idea or inspiration. It could be a photo like the one above - I was originally going for the romantic/gothic theme like on the picture but changed my mind later. It was very useful to get the anatomy right, though.
You can use a photo as a reference if you don't want to draw the outline yourself.
If you don't have a photo you could make a quick sketch of what you want to draw - but this is optional.