Prints!
My computer monitor looks nothing like my phone screen, and I need to get better with colours, so I decided to go get some of my digital pieces printed today!
It was just a standard Officeworks print on heavy paper, but omg why is everything so off lol. My monitor is definitely not calibrated; everything I do on the screen looks lighter than every other devices, and these prints show it too!
I'm no good at figuring out how to make my monitor accurate though ugh zzz
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!