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#203

i was looking through my computer for some face reference and I found this reaction photo which i always liked. i think i sorta flattened her nose which was a mistake and i broadened her jaw in a way that reminds me of one of those squat little kids from akira. i actually like it as a drawing, it feels like a different character but i think i used the reference quite well.

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#193

referenced from here. not too slavish observation, which i guess you could call lazy. i just wanted to make something that looked nice.

#190

This blog was feeling lonely so i thought i'd post this here rather than on the tumblr. for the last couple of evenings i've been drawing girls. some with more reference, some less so. people seemed to really like the last drawing i posted on tumblr and this is kind of different which is basically the reason im holding off posting all of this over there.

i've never been good at drawing girls so i've practiced drawing them a lot in the last year or so. I feel like anatomically I'm getting there although obviously my whole approach to art is a bit bad so i dont know if i can really say that. inspiration-wise these are fuelled by Dave Cooper and Chris Sanders' work - both pretty cheesecakey artists but they sorta celebrate some elements of female body types that i think are underrepresented. I think my favourite here is the girl on the left considering didn't really reference the pose as a whole, although I also really like the running girl. Trying to use weird hairstyles to see how far i can push it before they just look like dudes. also i like weird/short hairstyles. keen for feedback on whether these are weird/shit.

#189

#180

pick your favourite

#168

possible character for omnipathy #4. working title is still "psychic children". I need to think of a snappier one.

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#146

I've been away in Brussels for the last week. I did this before I left but I figure I should post it. Trying (again) to develop my digital painting. Blanca pointed out it looks a little Dresden Codak-y which is interesting but it could look a lot better.

#131

ysolde.

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#64

boooooooooorrrrrrrringgggggggg

trying out a low opacity thing

#63

lot of faffing about on this one. mostly because I'm terrible at this.

#60

referenced from here.

#59

 assorted faffings from a short synopsis I'm making for my dad's new opera for children, a The Little Mermaid number set in cornwall. top left - initial storyboard sketch. top right - character designs (generic even for me but just sort of practicing drawing pretty girls and old men that don't look like exactly like triton in TLM or zeus from Hercules) bottom - first "pencils" for the final comic, with script.

super simple (it's for little kids, although I'd be loath to use that as an excuse for it if it sucked) but a fun little excercise for me.

#58

more girls. this time, petulant. can't find the source photo, sorry!

#57

from an article on the bbc's website about jewish culture in modern Britain, presumably from a batmitzvah. Really nice photos on there.

#56

The theme for this week is portraiture of girls, by the way.

Drawn with reference from here, feel free to point out any weird discrepancies between model and drawing.

edit - a little messy, I cleaned it up.