Yet again, Obsessions aren’t always bad

I seem to be unable to just announce it done and leave it be… but at least now I think I’m close to finishing, well closer 🙂

 

Obsessions aren’t always bad – Update

As I’ve been saying, I worked on my last drawing. As Adrian Jordan suggested (and I’m very grateful for that comment), I got rid of the outline.

 

Eduardo, or Michael for he purposes of my novel

I think I might work a bit more on the hair…

 

Obsessions aren’t always bad ;)

My latest work. In my humble opinion, it’s not so bad. 🙂

As a reference I used a photo of  Eduardo Verástegui, who has just the perfect face. Now, now, I’m not falling for him on anything. His face is how I’m picturing the face of a character in my novel that I’m writing (that’s just one more hobby of mine, one that hopefully one day will end up on a shelf in a bookstore). I can’t really draw without a reference, so I’ve been looking for that face for quite a long time. I found it and I just had to draw it 🙂 And since I found more than one picture of Eduardo AKA Michael (the mentioned character), you can expect more drawings.  🙂

My greatest work (so far) completed!

This is a drawing that actually changed a lot. I did it for my friend, it’s her son. While I was in the process of drawing it, it was seen by my daughter’s art teacher. First time in my life I heard I had potential. It gave me a boost, made me think that I might not be so bad at drawing. Just think how what you say may affect people around you.

Development jump

Kids develop in jumps. One day they’re simply sitting and Boom! all of the sudden they’re crawling around. Apparently same goes for my drawing. I had a longish break in drawing, when I finally got back to it, I looked at it differently. I took my time, I played around with shading, tried to perfect every line. But most importantly I began using grid, it’s the first thing I do when drawing. Thanks to the grid, I no longer worry about proportions 🙂 I’m also braver with shading.

The first of the following drawings isn’t perfect. In my defense let me say my reference picture was poor quality, with almost no shading.

Now, with this second one, the reference was of a good quality and in my humble opinion, it shows 🙂