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I'm still trying to make Mora's features more visible.

On whatever device you are using to view this, are her features visible?

I´m viewing on a huge xpen drawing tablet and the face and I can only see the white of the eyes.
The picture of the other character in the sketch a day thread works way better. You probably have
to work with highligths more

yeah, but the other character has a much fairer complexion canonically, so I just have to keep working on it. Thanks!

Yeah you are right.
But it´s good that you challenge yourself, I think you´ll learn a lot

Day 11, I remember the cheek bone planes now and how to find them.
I can do a longer portrait session next week on tuesday and see if I got
any better. Hands were easy today even though I kind of rushed them

thank you, I hope I will. I'm not very good yet, but i am giving it my all

Still practicing lighting to try to make my girl's features stand out more. I'm not sure how i feel about this pic rn lol. it's a learning curve. today i tried using an airbrush like someone suggested, which i think gives a very unique affect

I think it works, I would give it more highlights or play with outlines.
It´s a cartoony style, why not make it pop out of the page more?

oh thank you, and yeah, I think her arms and legs should have some highlights in future too xd

This is what happens on days with limited time,
I have a long drive to 2 cities and later back home so
I will not be drawing the whole day. Maybe tonight

This is a 3 minute hand :smiley:

More shading and highlighting practice. I think i'm finally getting close-ish to her features finally being visible

This may quickly become 100 days of trying to draw Mora. Or at least 80 something lol. but i'm getting closer, slowly but steadily.

Here we have her as an elf

I came home one hour ago, felt guilty that I only drew one hand today so I made
another one for day 12. I feel better now and will draw some things for fun now

I hate guns btw and my comics will never have any violence, but I needed something
challenging

maybe it's a water gun. or for Olympic shooting? you can make your head canon whatever you like

The water gun is a creative and lovely idea :smiley:
Another option is a chocolate gun :smiley:

Day 13, the hands felt like gloves today. I did the planes of the nose and then I drew this head
construction from memory.

The nose construction thing helps a lot with shading and hightlights because then you what is in
light and shadow

Oh wow, this is so detailed, and helpful to see. thanks for the note

Day 14, bad hand day but I´m pushing through.
Some quick legs and more nose planes.

I will do some figure drawing now

Day 15 already.
It was a great idea from you to start this, I know exaclty what I improved on / what I learned.
Today on day 15 I only learned one tiny detail and that is how to put the top line of the nostril
construction, it´s always parallel to the wing of the nose.

Drawing noses is not easy, the nose is a main point people focus on when looking at a face and
judging if they find someone attractive or not. You can try that out by changing different facial features,
changes the nose can make all the difference

yeah, i have such a hard time drawing different nose shapes with my ocs in anything but a cartoony way, though I do a lot of different shape since my ocs are all different ethnicities. I still want to execute them well so people can know they're attractive lol

I'm glad you're finding it useful xd

Still practicing making my female leads features visible without compromising her intended complexion. At this point I can't tell whether they're becoming more visible at not, so i need some other opinions lol.

This kinda feels like a step back to me. You've gone back towards the pitch black it seems.

Colors of the clothes are a massive improvement though.

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I can tell it has a blue hue, but it is so low down the value scale that it reads almost as pitch black.
You just need to move up the value scale a bit to make it more readable.

Here, I made a minor adjustment to the value, see how big of a difference that makes in readability. Mine even lacks light/shadow in the face to show you can have a dark looking complexion, close to what you want and have it be more readable.

It´s a good idea that the character doesn´t have dark colors.
I think you are on a good way. I recommend sending the characters
to Angel Ganev, I don´t know if you are familiar with him, he is a really
good portrait drawing teacher, the best imo. He does a different video
every day where he gives shading advice to artists

One thing that I tried was drawing the outlines of your characters white and
it looked pretty good imo, especially when you have background in the panels later.
It´s just the question if you want white outlines

Day 16, the hands were fun, the nose sucked but I guess I have to do longer portraits again
to get the perspective right. I will probably continue with the shapes of the lips tomorrow

Day 17, the hands gave me a hard time, especially the one which is facing to the front.

I´m continueing the planes of the mouth area / lips in small steps, this will take me a while.
I don´t draw much realistic portaits and in my comics and in the drawing courses I use
very cartoony looking lips.

I´m trying to use the 100 days of art to get back into figure quick sketches. I used the
Riley method to draw this. I forgot most of the steps to do the Riley method and I´m not
happy with it, but I´m never happy with figures :smiley:

no I don't know him, how do you send characters to him?

This is his page with the course, the course is expensive and challenging
but it is really good www.doodlewarriors.com

And this is his instagram where you can send him a picture and ask him
to improve it or what you have problems with. I´m pretty sure that he would
like the challenge

You can also look at some of the videos how he imrpoved the shading on other
people´s drawings. He doesn´t work on the drawings, just the shading and highlights

I tried drawing a bust of my male lead, since I'm not great at drawing guys yet.

Also two pictures from a day or so ago of my female lead. Really not happy with the face on the aerobics outfit, BUT thanks to my dad being a comic book nerd, and my little sister having a super memory, I finally found a character I can use as a point of reference to try to draw her

All 3 characters look good imo

I don´t find the nose of the guy attractive but I guess that´s just a matter of taste :smiley:

Yeah, I don't like the way I drew the nose either lol, but I'm still working on it. I don't think it fits his face. Can you see the girl's faces though?

Yay. Well I expect it to be a slow process, but I'm glad there's improvement.

I´m the slowest learner ever, I just make it through being consistent and being stubborn.
That´s also something I´m trying to teach the kids that I´m teaching, they are all very impatient
and they want to give up after one try

Yeah, I know I'm impatient, but fortunately I'm also stubborn so I don't give up lol. I want to make myself improve faster so I just practice more. Doesn't work, but hey, at least I keep practicing xd

It seems to work though, and to start topics like this or participate helps too.
Don´t be too hard on yourself :smiley: