#just bc this blog is kind of like my sketchbook/journal and i want to be able to look back at things and see more than just the end result
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first attack! this one is for Twilfitt on artfight
(a little bit of my process under the cut)
I actually started drawing this character last year, but was never able to finish it because I struggled a lot with it. Even though I thought the sketch looked ok on its own, for some reason whenever I tried coloring or painting it, something just looked wrong and I was never able to get it to look right before the end of artfight.
Here is that sketch from last year:
(Looking back on it, I still think it looks fine & I'm not sure why I had so much trouble with it. Maybe in a couple years when I've improved some more I'll be able to see some flaw in it, or maybe I was just getting so burnt out last year that even things that should be easy felt impossibly hard?)
This year, I still wanted to draw this character as a revenge/thank you for Twilfitt drawing one of my characters a couple years ago. So I decided to try again, abandoning the old sketch and starting from scratch.
I did decide to keep things fairly easy for myself by making the drawing a simple portrait, like last year's sketch. (Shoulders up portraits like this are very much in my comfort zone, but I've been trying to break out of that a bit with the other attacks I've been working on this year.)
The painting process was pretty straightforward for the most part - except for when I went back and looked at the references again, and realized that her hair should be shorter, and that she probably wouldn't be wearing as much makeup. I was already pretty far into rendering at this point, but it was easy enough to fix those two things.
Here is that alternate version, as a bonus!
(this ended up being kind of long but whatever lol, that's what read mores are for 🤷♀️ I don't even know if anyone will read this anyway)
#my art#procreate#artfight 2023#finished this a few days ago but forgot to post it here#i used procreate's default watercolor brush for this one!#i think it worked really well for the hair but was harder to use for rendering the face#though i do kind of like the painterly brushstrokes effect it has#also think i might start adding some additional info or steps of my process to certain things like this#just bc this blog is kind of like my sketchbook/journal and i want to be able to look back at things and see more than just the end result#to help myself remember how i did certain things in case i want to recreate any effects or anything#this is also why i try to note the art program and brushes i used for each post bc i tend to experiment a lot with those things#and bc it might be helpful to anyone who happens to see this as well
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