This is the first sketch. I was pretty happy with it since it was one of my best unreferenced drawings.
This is the partially inked version. You can see I added a lot more things to the table.
Here I started cleaning it up a bit with the eraser. Also straitened some of the slightly askew sketches.
And this is my fully inked version. (I use Faber-Castell Pitt artist pens) And this is how it looks right now :)
So although I have rarely used my Copic markers I have attempted to practice on this picture multiple times, trying to get the right look....
This was my first try at using the Copic markers on Alice... I used a transparent clip board to trace another Alice on a separate piece of paper. Then simply went at it with the markers! I was also using Prismacolor pencils since I have a very limited amount of different Copic colors... Plus it leaves an interesting effect... (as you can see I was really not sure what I was doing on the hair...
This is Copic Test no.2
I used the colorless blender more with the Copics on this one... and was trying to be more careful on the skin... (I ended up smudging some of the ink accidentally on the eyes...) I tried just using pencils on the hair, which turned out looking much better than using the Copics...
And then we have my last try... (Note: All the skin is actually more peach looking... My scanner wasn't working very well....)
On the Left you can see I was being impatciant on the hair, and on the dress I wasn't quick enough with the Copics, so it turned out having washed out layers of color... I also tried to leave some white on the skin for highlights to no avail... (I'm still working on adjusting to the bleeding range)
In the Middle I tried using more gold and yellow colors for the hair just to see what would happen... The dress came out smoother but the skin turned out a lot more blotchy then the last... I did manage to get bigger highlights though.
On the Right I changed the cup to green to see if I liked that better... But I think I'm going to go with the purple. It has a much more natural feel against her blue dress... Over all I was just really impatient with this one... The hair is just streaky unkempt lines and the dress... I'm not even sure what went wrong there... But over all it had the best skin in my opinion. So I was glad about that...
Over all this is my proudest work so far... I really wish to finish it soon. But I'm not sure if I'll be able to for awhile until I have developed more skill with the Copics! And I'm planing to purchase a few other colors for the skin since I really don't want it to look like Alice developed a sunburn in Wonderland... But one day or another I will come back to it. It's all a matter of time.
Thanks so much for looking!! Please let me know what you think about my projects! Nothing brightens my day like a comment! :)
Hope to see you Friday!
~Zarana
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