Freema Agyeman

Aaaah I messed up the eyes and chin! But it was definitely fun drawing her, she's so pretty! I really only wanted to attempt this digitally, because of how much black there was and I was worried I wouldn't be able to do the highlights properly. It didn't turn out so bad!

Now I have to get out of my face shot comfort zone and really get more practice on full body and hands...

Just another typical drawing day

I can't draw him lol. I've tried and tried and something is always off. This is mouth attempt number 3...

Mike Shinoda hand study

I've been too afraid to try this drawing even though I've wanted to for a while. There's this fear that I won't capture his likeness, and the main mission - drawing hands! These hands are hard! But it's a style of hands that I've not drawn before and it was my main focus.

Overall it turned out okay! I am having a real hard time with my Pixel 7 though, crushing blacks, especially at night, its a horrendous experience. But anyway you can see the lols that is the base sketch, it's so hilarious that I really didn't think I could get this one done!

Grandson portrait

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!

Taika Waititi

I think I'm done trying to draw digitally for the rest of this year. It's so hard! Also a cropped version without a filter wrecking it just cause.