Drawing has proven to be such a refreshing change of pace that I'm beginning to really enjoy it, even if I'm really only playing around at this point.
This is the character who I want draw.
This is Gabriel. She has a backstory and a character concept, but I won't go into it right now. After a few hours twisting my hand over the Intuos, I came up with this.
As poor the quality is, it's pretty good for me at my current skill level. She was birthed from a particular drawing technique (I forget the actual name) where you constantly draw over your original drawing as you refine and sculpt the features. As you do this, you flip the canvas -- that basically resets your mind, so you can see proportions better.
So Gabriel actually started out like this:
Then this:
Here I resized Gabriel's shoulders to be not as broad.
Gosh, Gabriel's getting pretty! Look at that face!
Here Gabriel's hips look less like they can stab people.
She's getting there now, but her hips are still too wide, and it's this point I notice her head really isn't sitting well on her shoulders.
Here is the final sketch. A this point, her proportions are right. Of course, there are things wrong with it, the arms don't really sit right, her neck is a little triangular, and she's not "clean", but those things come with practice.
Here is a group portrait with Gabe and all her prior incarnations.
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