My FIRST digital painting :D Hope you like it!
Recourse: Video Tutorial (idrawgirls.com)
Tablet: Wacom Intuos 4
Software: Photoshop CS5

Finally a new drawing after so long! And its a landscaped one :D

Something I thought would be interesting and fun to do.
This drawing is a somewhat literal meaning of "NoiseSingapore"

PS. Strictly no offence to the event or Singapore

It has been such a long time since I last drew something (about 3 weeks, heh) and I finally found some time this week end to do it. This one is a drawing of Mother Mary.

The mother of our Lord.....She is our mother too, do not forget that.

Okay~ I tweeked the drawing a little cause his beard didn't suit him.

I've been wanting to do this for quite a while but didn't have enough "skill" to do it....but thanks to the lessons I've been doing, I was able to draw a nice picture of Saint Francis Xavier. Well its sort of a token of appreciation to the community of the church of Saint Francis Xavier in Singapore (:

This is Saint Francis Xavier in the beaches of Malacca when he was doing his mission work there

Its been awhile but I finally got the time to draw today :D so here it is, a 3/4 face!

I did a drawspace.com lesson teaching me about lines and how they move. I also did a male warrior face (:

Lines

Male Face

I realised something was wrong about the drawing so I tweaked it a little and now it looks much better.

I took like 3 hours trying to draw this face, and I am pretty proud of it (: Hope you like it as much as I do

Semi-Real Face

After a few days, I finally got to draw something :D Here is the side of the male figure.

Okay~ so I got some feedback about the male figure saying that the shoulders were too broad which I totally agree with, so I went to change it

Adjusted figure

Finally doing male figures. This one is a little off because I seriously suck at symmetry but if you find any major faults please tell me and I will try to fix it (:

Male front figure

Spent the whole morning just trying to draw this horse from drawspace.com. It is quite off but this was the best I could do thus far XD

My drawing

Reference

Today I did a drawing lesson from drawspace.com which had me to find the fundamental shapes in a face of a dog.

The dog. By the way, the "smile" is actually its lower jaw

I also did some more sketching on the torso, pelvis, and legs of the female figure.

Pelvis

Torso

Legs

Today, one of my best friends helped comment on my drawings. And she said that the proportions for the figures were off, so I re-drew the parts that were out of proportion.

 For the front view, I smoothened out the waist. I also adjusted the knee height for both the front and side views so that the lower half of their legs would be of equal length to the upper half, and I adjusted the butt shape for the back view

 For more practice I just drew random sketches concentrating more on the torso.

Today, I tried applying what I learnt from the symmetry lessons in an assignment where I had to draw a front face of a gremlin. I also did the back of a female figure from idrawgirls.com tutorial.

The Gremlin

Side and Back of female figure

To improve my drawing, I have decided to draw at least one thing everyday. Be it stuff around my computer desk or from the tutorials I will make it a habit to draw everyday and hopefully, my drawings will improve. So here is todays work.

If you are observant enough, you'll notice that the "side" figure is a little off centred so it looks a little imbalanced. But I'll be more careful next time as to where I place my body parts (:

Oh! And a few weeks back I was looking through the app store on my Iphone 4 and found two really cool free applications, Photoshop Express and Sketchbook MobileX. So I experimented with them a little and came up with a quick "painting". It is supposed to be a dragon for those who can't see it, hahaha.

Without Photoshop Express

With Photoshop Express

Well, I decided to start at the very beginning. To pretend that I have never drawn anything in my life so as to build up my foundations for drawing. So I'm currently follow lessons from drawspace.com, which in my opinion is great for beginners (like myself) or more experienced people, and this is what I have so far.

This one is about seeing shapes around the object which happens to be a duck.

The same lesson as the duck. This one is a computer mouse.

This lesson is about drawing the figure.

Drawing of a toy penguin 

This lesson was about symmetry...which I obviously can't do.

This was another lesson about symmetry

This one is about seeing values (the different lights and darks)

Also, I've been following drawing tutorials which is centred more on figures and fantasy from idrawgirls.com. So far I have only learnt about sketching gestures and drawing the front of female figures (by the way, the website also has tutorials on drawing male figures too). Their not that good, but then again these are my FIRST drawings so cut me some slack k? :P

Front Figure

Random Gestures

This one too....

And this...

Well I will definitely continue to practice and draw to get them right and nicer looking (hopefully :P). It would take awhile but I just hope that this blog doesn't die by then.