A Little Chick

This little sketch was heavily inspired by one of Yong Chen's videos on Youtube. It's done in pencil and in my smallest sketchbook. And I'm starting to want to add c before h in every word because I've been brushing on my german and it's how you write it there. It's a little annoying that my fingers do that without question even if I'm trying to write in English.
Hope you like it.

~AnnElfwind

Written on the 14th of January, 2021

Reflection

So, while watching a tutorial on youtube by Yong Chen, I decided to draw something. Not knowing what, and not wanting to draw what he was doing in the tutorial, I went back to my trusty random word generator and got the word reflection. I went with it. Googled it and then picked a picture. Though I do need to remember to fucking switch to searching through Pinterest rather than a simple google pic search. Pinterest is better for this. Still, I settled on a pic and hopped to it. It's done in charcoal and while I didn't do much in case of details, I think that the finished product is not too bad. Especially if you don't view it full-sized. So yeah. I did no measuring, no guidelines. I just went in with that charcoal pencil and hoped for the best. As always. I almost never measure when drawing. Or, maybe even never... No. That's not quite right. I measured once. Maybe even twice. But I don't really like it. It's why I only do it on very rare occasions. And as for details. When you're using an A5 sized paper and charcoal pencil, it's really hard to do details. Yes, I am aware it sounds like an excuse, but the truth is, I didn't want to add too many details. The main stuff is there and that's enough for me. Deal with it. Still, I would like to know what you think about this. So let me know in the comments. See ya. 

~AnnElfwind 

Written on the 2nd of June, 2020

Just some junk and a face

So, this is a sketch of a set of junk items one could find in an art room, or perhaps a crafting room. I like how it turned out even though it's definitely not perfect. Partly, the blame lies with the source image being too small and me not being able to see the wrapped box well enough. I did not know where the details were and so I had to improvise a little bit. Despite that, I think it didn't turn out too bad. For a sketch that is. It was drawn on an A6 format with a regular pencil. And with a lot of help from a kneaded eraser. Tell me what you think? 

Okay, this one is photographed wrong. Just wrong. When I compare it to the real thing, this one's chin is too long. I don't know how I managed to do that, but at the same time, I was too lazy to photograph it again. And yes, if you haven't noticed, I photograph my drawings instead of scanning them. I find that it's faster. Especially as I can just upload it from my phone to google photos and then directly insert it here.
This picture was also done on an A6 format and with the same regular pencil. It was done in two steps. The first one had me finishing most of the face, while the second one focused on the neck, hair, and some details I missed in step one. For some reason, the end result seems like ti's really good while at the same time, it seems really really bad. Most of the bad vibes come from the chin looking too long in the photo. Trust me, the real deal looks quite a bit better. Still, I would like to know if you like it and if you don't, I would like to know why. Though, please, keep it civil. At least a little bit. Okay?

~AnnElfwind

Written on the 24th of April, 2020

Charcoal, pencil and a merman

I was watching a charcoal tutorial on youtube. It was about drawing an eye. But the main problem was, that my charcoal was not the smudgy type. So I had to take out my soft pastels, which I coincidentally, only have in black, white and gray, and try to see if they would work. And boy, did they! They worked wonders. I mean, the iris could have used a bit more highlights, but oh well, it still looks cool! I love how it looks! Done on an A4 paper with some tooth to it. The sketchbook it's in was a Christmas gift. :D And so far, it's working pretty well for me. 

This one was done while I was watching some youtube video about basic proportions. It was all about measuring and comparing distances. And the guy is like still doing the nose while I'm googling hairstyles. Basically, remember what's-his-name from the post titled "Who the fuck are you?"? Well, this was a similar process. Just this time, I did a female, just like him. But the end result is completely different. The size is a fourth of an A4 paper. Done in a basic pencil that I don't even know the hardness of, but it seems like it could be a standard 2B pencil. Or something like that. Well, anyway, I'm happy with how this looks. What do you think?

Heh. Frankly, I don't even know what to say about this one. I mean, it's not horrible, but compared to the other two, it's like a complete noob drew it. And maybe it's because it was done in oil pastels and on a rather small paper. So I couldn't really fit enough detail into it, but still. The hands are pretty horrible. Though my thought process is this: If I don't draw them, regardless of how horrible they are, I'll never get better at drawing them. So that's why I'm posting even this. It's not my best work, but it's not my worst either, so there you go. Tell me how bad it is. I can take it.

~AnnElfwind

Written on: 8th of January, 2020

Three pics

So, I decided to add some of my newer pics. These three were finished just recently and I had some free time so I used my laptop's camera and made photos. After I trimmed the pohotos in PhotoFiltre so that I wasn't in the picture. Or my fingers for that matter. 

This first one is of a sitting girl and was inspired by some more or less random pic on pinterest. I've been using pinterest as a source of inspiration. It's great. Pinterest I mean, the picture, could be better but I'm of the opinion that it's not too bad. Yeah, the proportions are a bit off, but it's not like I was going for realism so there. Done in colored pencils with a pencil sketch under. Sketch is a bit older than the colores on top. I just recently got the idea to go back into it with color. But all things considered, it didn'T turn out too awfull. 

The second pic was probably even more random. I just sketched and some time after went back into it with color. Though to be honest, I like it somewhat more than the first one. Mainly the shading in the face. I tried to make the sleeve kinda seethrough but I don'T think I did a good job of that, other than that though, I'm happy with how it turned out.

Last pic is me experimenting with darker skin tones. And frankly, it lookes darker on paper. The photo probably skewed the colors a bit. And probably not only on this one. But I'm too lazy to plug in my skener so using camera app on my laptop was the better option for me. Faster. 

Now about the third picture. Like I said, I tried to experiment with a darker skin tone and exotic lip color. The ear is a bit weird and the lips should be a bit more to the right (from viewer's point of view), but other than that, I think it turned out pretty good. Yeah, the lip placement is still bothering me. But nothing to be done about it now, considering that it was sketched with a permanent medium. So short of scrapping it and starting over, nothing to be done about it now. But I really like to sketch with a permanent medium. If I don'T, I redraw and erase too much. And this eliminates it. 

WEll, that's the pics. Hope you like them at least a little bit and when I finish more of them, I'll post them. Again with a short (or not so short) commentary. 

See ya!

~AnnElfwind