My Favorite Drawings of 2016

Because I have been taking getting better at art for about a year now before I started this blog I thought I would go through some of my favorite works of 2016. I posted all of them on Instagram and they all got pretty good responses.

At the beginning of 2016 i just happened to find a book in a discount store called How to Draw Fantasy art: Create Amazing Fantasy Characters by Steve Beaumont. This book contains lessons on creating fantasy characters and the picture below is the first tutorial. 

The Elf Princess

She is supposed to be an elf princess but mine seemed to turn out more like a vampire princes. The tutorial was easy to follow and the shading tips were great. this was my first post on Instagram that got a great response even though it was not lined to a well known # and is spurned me on to create more art to post.

The next piece is a tutorial from Draw the Marvel Way. This is a magazine I get every 2 weeks. I started off doing every tutorial starting with spider-man then wolverine then Hulk and then in issue 4 this Black Widow. This was the first time i tried to add a bit of colour using coloured pencils. I think it turned out pretty good but i was never pleased with the dullness of the colour. I still get draw the marvel way but i haven't done a tutorial for ages.

Black Widow

 After my relative success with colouring i tried to find another method of colouring that would give a more vivid effect and found promarkers. These markers are alcohol based pens which give a good strong flat colour which can also be blended together. You may of heard of copic markers the promarkers are pretty much the same and they are both pretty expensive. I bought myself a skin tone pack and a few other common colours and decided I would have a go at drawing something Disney.

When I was a kid I think my first ever crush was from a Disney movie in the form of the red head who wore nothing but shells, Arial from the little mermaid. I think this is still the favorite thing I created in 2016. I statred off using an online tutorial I found but made the picture my own by adding flounder and colouring with the promarkers i had just bought. Unfortunatly I didnt buy a yellow marker so flounder had to be finished off with coloured pencils but I think he turned out pretty well.

This post has gone on a lot longer than I thought and I'm about half way through my pics of 2016 so I think I will cut it here and carry on in my next post. I hope you are enjoying it so far let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions. Thank you and see you soon.