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.
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The Elf Princess |
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.
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.
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Black Widow |
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.
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