Halo, Blue Dragon with the Red Neil Gaiman er uh …Avatar!
This avatar added a particular new challenge, which was the weight that comes from the assumption that the avatar is likely taken from the artist’s own portfolio.
After tracing out a circle, I started with my traditional shitty pencil sketch method to capture the basic outline and position. It’s not a dig at myself, the first sketch is shitty on purpose. If I try to make my foundational sketch perfect, I tend to freeze and get nowhere…it’s easier for me to correct a shitty sketch than it is to generare a perfect one outright.
Ok…in this case I didn’t really change it all. So I guess it was a dig at myself after-all. I’m ok with that if you guys are.
Next I basically tried to make dark spots where there were dark spots. Figured that would help make it look more like the original.
Finally, I whupped out a red sharpie and smacked the whole thing down with a dose of heavy red to really trick the eye into thinking they’re similar.
And that, my friends, is how I like to draw a drawing of a drawing from the great Blue Dragon, @strega.azure!
Thanks for checking out some more of my work! As always, I hope you enjoyed witnessing as much as I enjoyed creating!
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Well, dang, my vote's worth about 9 more cents today than yesterday.
Don't spend it all in one place!
LOL!!!
Great to see your post in the Ecency Community ♥️
Thank you!!!
You're welcome ♥️
Yeah! I am honoured! My avatar was made from my old drawing, jazzed up with touch of Photoshop :) your version is definitely more girly than I actually am:)
HAHAHA I hope that's not a problem 😁
I hope as I continue working on these things, that I will learn to more accurately convey the images I seek to replicate - and certainly where my mind finds the details vague, right now I think I tend to fill in the blanks, instead of just copying them...there is definitely some serious skill required to let go and trust they eyes to see and the hands to follow!