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🔹A blog to motivate myself to practice drawing 🎨 🔹I love animals 🐶🐔🦉🦝🦙🦭🪿🐞🐝

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Started drawing my cat and it evolved like this

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Boyd

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Victor

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Sketches/ Face angles & hair practice

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Portrait practice

This is the coloring from my last year's pencil portrait drawing. Did this last month but I'm posting now. Overall I'm trying to find ways to achieve better likeness in my realistic portraits without spending a lot of time trying to copy what I'm seeing. I remember the likeness of this portrait had actually come quite fast to me, but it's still a hit or miss in other references. I've recently came up with this method of "T" measuring for both the length but also the width. The cycle method was messing up my width dimensions and was making the faces elongated. If this happens, then it doesn't matter whether you put the facial features right in relation to each other, or if you put them in the right height.

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Universe's hand

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Dimensions

-Perspective practice

Colors in the first one looked much better on tablet, but as I'm uploading this from pc it looks worn out. I figured it looks better with brightness at 50% max, since I'm using lower brightness on tablet

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Process

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The Chief Graphic Designer:

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Folds/ clothes drawing practice

Stages:

I finally decided to begin the clothes drawing practice, after I've felt I have practice enough with the face rendering, plus I wanted to draw something different. I chose this reference (found on Pinterest) because it's just a shirt and it's way easier to practice on simple fabric. I'm still figuring out how the folds and their shading and patterns work, but I have to say that after I've practiced on them by painting them and not just drawing only the line art, somehow their shapes registered much better in my brain. I also applied the hard/soft edges technique on the folds that I've discovered from drawing faces. After clothes there's only perspective and buildings left to work on

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Face rendering August 2025-November 2025

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Almost a year after I bought my tablet, and yesterday I managed to color a face right. First it turned more blurry because I used the airbrush, but then I decided I needed to be bolder and use the regular brush and have more defined edges and texture. I also added the highlights and the hair details. I think it was elevated after that.

Its sketch and some other colorings of it

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Eye Painting Practice

Phew, this is the first time I've managed to draw in a "painterly" way without lines, trying to use a variation of colors instead of just different tones for the darker or lighter areas. It's been almost a year now (well, more like 11 months) after I got my drawing tablet and began practicing shading and colors. I haven't uploaded in a while, but I've been practicing. Fear of failure still here and stops me from practicing often, but I'm determined to keep going.

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Semi realistic Rendering practice. Colors a bit muddy but that was also in the reference. This is a painterly way of drawing likeness. I'm still not as confident with painting like I am with sketching, but I think this came out decent and the plane changes and contrast (although blurry) make it look like it's getting close to realism

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Rendering Practice

I still can't find a detailed Rendering video, but I've combined some of the techniques I've seen from multiple tutorials. I used the "blush" technique, like I'm calling it now. It's used for more comic like drawings, and it's pretty different than painting, because you make the sketch first. Then use a blush tone around the nose, eyes, cheeks and edges of the forehead. In this stage you can also add other colors like blue or green. Then apply the base color on a different layer, and then the shadows, hard shadows and highlights.

The background was initially dark behind this character, and it looked like she was in a city with lights behind her (which I liked more than this setup tbh), but the colors of her skin and the shadows fitted with an outdoors sunny environment. Decided to add the seagulls ❤️😆, although as a composition I think it looks better without them

3/4 angle sketch reference from Emilyena on Youtube.