Random Character Sketch - Girl

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Another Girl - Sketch

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Leading the Way - Completed

Here it is, my 200th entry to Doodle-All-A-Day. I added a background, some texture to the robot and made some adjustments to the shadows and highlights. Pretty happy with this one, and it has given me an idea for what I'd like to do once I've completed 365 (stay tuned).

Leading the Way - Progress (Highlights)

Only a little change on this one, but I think the highlights add a world of difference. This will be the last update on this before I post the final product in a couple of days.

Leading the Way - Progress (Shadows)

Making some progress on this. I've added shadows to the robot and the girl, so they pop a little bit more. Next I'll be adding some highlights, which should make it come to life even more. I've removed the sketch layer - as it is no longer needed - and added a (temporary) gray background.

Leading the Way - Progress (Base Color)

Added base coloring to the picture. Looks pretty flat so far, but the next stage is to add some shadows. That will start giving it a bit more shape/definition... I'll post further progress in a day or two.

Leading the Way - Sketch

My 200th doodle is coming up soon (for those of you keeping score, this post is number 191). Since I did a color drawing for my 100th, I thought I'd do the same for 200 as well. Since color takes a little longer to do, I thought I'd post my progress in 3 or 4 stages. This is the first stage, a quick sketch that I actually did in pencil rather than using the drawing tablet. The rest of the piece will be done in the normal fashion.

Space Girl - Color

I went back and added some detail and color to the Space Girl sketch. This one was a lot of fun to do. It had been a while since I'd done anything in color, so I spent a little time on this over the past few days. I'm really happy with the results.

Space Girl Sketch

I liked how this one was going, but then I got a migraine and had to stop working on it. I might come back and develop it a little bit more later.

Girl IV

Since the shading on yesterday's drawing took so long, I thought I'd go for something a little simpler this time.

Faerie

I'm not as happy with this as I wanted to be. It started out strong, and then I lost it somewhere around the trench coat. And it doesn't help that I still can't draw hands to save my life. I'm thinking that maybe if I add some shading it would improve, but I'm not caring enough to spend the time on it that it would require. Oh well.

Girl III

Continuing my practice with the new outlining technique. I used a graphite pencil like brush this time, and did some shading as well. I like how this turned out.

I also just noticed that my file numbering has been off for the past few drawings. I was behind by one. I've corrected the problem starting with this image, but the previous mis-numbered files will have to remain that way because I'm too lazy to go back and change them. Not that anyone really cares. :-)

Little Cinder Girl

More testing out of my new Illustrator brushes, though I did some of the line work in Photoshop. This is a character idea for a children's story that only exists as a small glimmering of an idea in my head right now.

Girl II

Another quick sketch, no time for details.

Girl

Just feeling kind of blah today. Sorry this isn't more detailed.