Finally got out of my little tomb and finished one of my drawings. Well .. finished means I did the sketch, not the whole painting. /trololo

So. What happens when you start drawing a mermaid? You end with a beautiful long haired mermaid? Well. Not me:



It's like you start with "Hey, I'm going to draw a horse" and end up with a turtle.

But a nice turtle. I was actually working on a mermaid, cause I like their tails. Or however they're called .. flipper thing. But she was too human to me and I tried something different. So I ended up with a naga/myrmidone/siren. I know they have a lot of names, I know them as naga. And not just from WoW or Dota 2.

So first thoughts: No hair. Different eyes (holy crap ) and a long beautiful tai... flipper thing. And a lot of fishy stuff like bubbles and s.o.

I didn't want to over-detail her, so I tried to keep my craziness under controll. It was hard not to put her on some pipes or made her tail in robot style. But I resisted the seduction pretty well. Phew. But I miss sci-fi a lot ..

Most frustrating part was the face, especially the eyes. Cause I tried non human and non comic styled ones. Got the idea of snake eyes, cause they look pretty good on nagas too. But she looks kinda like Rayquaza. Some nerds will know what I mean, but I don't care. I like Rayquaza too. Sounds like a pretty good name for her, naga-ish. Still looking for a good one, have so many ideas.

I kept the head free of details, cause I had so many on body, background things and stuff that it might killed her or the whole image. And maybe because I got really confused with the whole picture and thought I should stop, had to remove many layers and lines for the final.

Next sketch is going to be male. Too many females here .. even if they're more beautiful for me then males but still .. I can try.

Short entry ends here.

Last time I'm newing the old thing! Will keep going away or pausing that sci-fi / bot / etc stuff and that's why I have to point it up that this drawing is NOT sci-fi. No metal, no robot eyes, robot body parts or other spacy things. (time to loose control: SPAAAA(....)HAAAAACEEE)

I don't think I should call it a re-sketch. Not just because it sounds weird, it's the fact that it doesn't really look similar to the old picture. More like a complete new one .. but it isn't. Gnarf. I used the old picture but had the feeling to change almost everything.

Proudly or not, I present the result:



First thing you can see: I changed the face. Last time I tried to draw special looking eyes and failed, now it turned out pretty good. Again removed those strange ":3"-duckface lips and gave her a serious look. Or mad. Not sure about it but I don't want to draw always happy/sexy or smiling faces, that's boring.

Next is hair and details/hair accessoires. Got pretty fucked up with the hair styling. I'm not really satisfied with how it looks right now but it's a lot better then the old sketch. Still have to study different hair stylings and stuff. I changed the old sci-fi look and turned it into an ice/snow scenary. I think it looks a lot better like that, cause I tried something different. And everyone loves snowflakes! And I love them so much that I had to put them in every fucking empty corner of that poor woman. In RL she would probably get a headache. A hard one. Or she couldn't move her head. But nevermind. Surreal drawings doesn't have to make sense. Point for me.

I'm really happy with the final, it was a lot of fun to create all those details and I seriously felt in love with it. Can't wait to see it with some colours.

That was all re-sketching or newing the olding thing stuff for now. Next sketch will be something completely new I'm going to try. Still working with surreal stuff, but trying to keep it as human as I can. Or not. Depends on my imagination.

For critical spelling errors: Here's a cookie. Good job, you can keep everyone you can find!

Before I'm going to update this with new art and sketches (well, only sketches ) I tried something new. Old new. New-ing the old ... thing. Nevermind.

Yesterday I was looking at some of my old sketches and thought "ho my, this looks ugly" and got the idea of a show off. To show myself that I can do that better. Skill increased! And here's the newborn drawing "Hearteater":



As you can see ... the first one is my old drawing. Actually one of my first tries to handle the tablet. Noobstarting. I hated that stupid thing so much at that time.

I'm really face addicted. That's the first difference you can see. The old one was too soft, doll like and strange looking. Calling that duckface right now, cause she's doing that ":3" with her lips, if you know what I mean. The next changing included the whole head/hair stuff, mech parts and the heart. I replaced opened eyes (I don't know why in the bloody hell they were opened ...) with closed because I think that fits better in the mood and meaning of the drawing.

Last but not least: the hands! I remember my first time I tried to draw hands and I failed so much that I thought of ripping that shit off and draw her without any hand. The biggest difference (along the whole head) you can see. The old hand was kind of dead, not moving, not holding anything. The new one is a lot more "into" the whole thing. Holding. I changed the point of view and moved one of the front pipe thingies behind to give her a more realistic look.

The last picture is, like always, just for showing the result without my fucked up messy lines. I'm not working with it.

I don't know if I should re-colour the picture too .. that skill did not increase even a bit. Not even a little bit. But maybe I'll try after I've finished all sketches.

I'm not really satisfied with the result but I'm happy that it looks a lot better then the old one.