I took a shot at drawing a character for a story I’ve been working on for awhile (months, years)? This isn’t really a tutorial but a record of the steps I took to draw her. This character is not done at all and she’s getting more folds and shading. I need to decide if I want to do cell shading again or try a harder type of shading.

I’m not even sure who this character will be but she’s temporarily named Angora. I might not even use her since I don’t hold on to characters unless they feel right. Maybe she needs some redesigning. Click to read more …

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Aren’t you glad?! This is the last part, consisting of the background, which I made relatively simple, and can be done suuuper fast, at least this one anyway. I’ll be going about how to finish off your picture. Anyway, as a side rant, I went up to the College I want to attend, and all that happened was one screw up after another. They have my test scores and GPA all messed up, saying I got lower than what I KNOW I did. This is putting a LOT of stress on me right now, especially because I tried really hard and I was a good student. *30 minutes pass* Ok, so I took a break from writing out my rant, listened to a song called “When Reason Fails- Texhnolyze” and now I feel a bit better. I do love that song, and it explains my thoughts on a lot of things. Ah, those beautiful words, believe, hope, miracles, they all play a special part for me, but enough ranting on that, let’s go and finish this shall we?

So the first thing I did, I went back to the background layer, finding a good brush that I could use to shape clouds and the sky, I picked these colors, though you could use anything you want.

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Ahhh! It’s so long! There’s one more part after this, and then, it’s over. XD I finished this picture last night, but I couldn’t help take a bit longer to finish, because I was oggling all my beautiful gifts I got from Mari and Alex. Mari got me this Japanese dagger, it’s soooo pretty, and she made me a little Kotou doll out of clay! That woman is a pure genious, it’s gorgeous! I’d want to expirament with clay sometime as well, but when I had before… everything came out looking like the bad end of a prune salad. *shivers* Besides, I was spending my time looking at my pretty pictures on the World of Warcraft Card game from the Burning Crusade series.  Ah but what was I talking about? Oh yes, back to the tutorial. This lesson, I’ll be pretty brief on how I do the clothes, and the jewelry for the cross.

Alright, so right now it’s pretty plain, and looks something like this 

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