What it says on the tin. I followed the drawing guide, so I was able to make some (non-realistic) faces that aren’t hideously deformed. Hooray!
Once again, I decided to make some changes immediately after posting. Nothing too dramatic, see if you can spot the changes and win a fabulous nothing!
Current:
Original:
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Ears are clearly not my specialty, but I can see the problem areas I have and with problems come solutions! In theory, anyway.
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Mouths and more mouths.
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A bunch of stylized noses done using black pencil.
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This week’s prompts are all related to the face, with a different part each day, so it looks sort of like making a Frankenstein’s monster.
Today is Eyes, though technically I just drew one. Imagine its twin just off to the left.
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A basic black and white drawing of the cat breed with the freaky big ears. Not great, but relatively quick.
EDIT: I decided to go back and add some gray shading to it and remove the lines. The original is #2 below.
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I tried a few different ways to color/apply fur before settling on a combination of the dry ink and 6B pencil brushes.
This is probably the most “realistic” cat I’ve done. And it flies!
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Once more into the cats. I tried using reference on this, even stooping as low as tracing, but it just wasn’t working at all. Finally, in desperation I just winged the whole thing, plunking down the cat, adding the smile, then asking myself, “Why is it smiling?” and answering with, “Because it is contentedly crushing flowers in a pot.”
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Cats today! I found a reference for the general pose, then applied my own color scheme, and went with a bold, flat style using ink brushes.
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Another day, another dog. I thought a cartoon version would be easier and it was–a little!
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I had to choose between a poodle and a ragdoll cat. I chose poodle because I thought it would be simpler. Ho ho.
This took a lot of work and it made me crazy. It’s not bad and I learned a few things, so I’m content with that.
I present the initial version and the finished one. I looked at the initial version and found that it was so hard to see the eyes it looked like they had been gouged out. Also, the ears weren’t quite as fluffy as I wanted, so I went in and did some canine surgery that was…mostly successful.
Final form of poodle:
Poodle from hell version:
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I originally was going to really cheat on this and make it nothing but a black silhouette. I ended up adding a little bit of shading, but this was another late night rush job after spending most of the day with a massive headache.
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