This one was interesting to draw! As always, displaying my Photoshop Takes Zero Skill heavily filtered pic, but I do want to post some WIPs too!

I wanted to try something different for this – I really like the angle and lighting of this shot, but it was too daunting to approach with pencil because it was extremely black heavy, and I don’t like having to spend so much pencil lead on paper because it’s so tedious, not to mention the graphite goes everywhere and is prone to smudging! So I decided to start my digital canvas black, and worked my way towards white. It kind of worked???

I know, red’s kind of default for drawing on black. I did consider doing a hot pink sketch, but decided against it.

Okay so I guess it’s still black on white, I didn’t actually succeed at the whole white on black project XD

Ugh hair. Tight curls uuuugh. I do still enjoy hair though. It’s clothes I hate! I had a hard time trying to figure out how his jacket was made, and then I realised it’s a denim jacket with a hoodie, so I had to go back and edit the right side (his left) and then redo the left side (his right) entirely!

I also fudged a lot of the heavy blacks because my phone accentuates the contrast; my monitor is actually a few shades lighter, but I can’t be bothered calibrating my monitor because then I can’t see anything with the glare in the daytime…

And the rest is history.

I think it’s the best digital drawing I’ve done yet, but that’s also because I took out any challenges I had with colour. I still got the face (and so many other things) wrong but hey I like it! Hooray for more progress!