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I went to visit my cousins this weekend, and the oldest one, Katelin (who's my younger sister's age) showed us her new tablet and art program she'd gotten from her grandpa. She's an artist too, but after getting the tablet (some sort of Wacom, one of the really expensive ones) she's completely switched over to digital. Well, almost completely. It's her medium of choice, at least.
She'd improved tenfold since I'd last seen her work (shoot, some of the stuff she showed me was pretty fantastic) and after looking through the sketchbook I'd brought with me, she wanted to draw one of my characters. I helped her find reference pictures for Snap, since there are a lot in there, and as she sketched up a headshot on the computer I watched how she drew noses. She's really good at noses and eyes.
And I was just like 'shoot, that's a way better method than what I do' and decided to draw front-view noses like her from then on.
(I told her I'd learned something from her, and she was really flattered; from then on, whenever someone walked in and complimented the Loki picture I was working on, she'd be all like 'buT THE NOSE IS MINE' or something lol)
She's a big Loki fan too (finally, someone I know!), so we sat and talked about Loki and Thor 2 and whatnot for a while. (She also introduced me to a couple dozen of her OCs, my favorite of which is Blueberry, an owl-pirate.)
Earlier that day we'd watched Thor (they owned it on DVD, much to my delight) so of course I was in one of those stupid Loki moods and when she let me try out the program (Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, btw) I had to draw him. (Had to.) She doesn't include a lot of shading detail in her art, though, so she was pretty impressed as she watched me work.

He took fluffing forever omg
But I reallyreally love how he came out, even if it was a lot more detailed than what I'd expected. (Part of me doesn't like it, because he's looking straight ahead at the viewer and that kind of thing always makes me uncomfortable--but oh well, whatever.) I just kept adding more and more lol
It's also about fluffing time I give him a different expression, too. This one suits him better, anyway; I'm always forgetting that he's actually sorta evil, OTL
Originally it was going to be just black and white except for his eyes (shoot, I do love green eyes), but I finished everything else and was itching to color his lips for some reason (seriously, I love adding blush to pictures), so then this happened and he just looks ridiculously pale. (I also colored the gold thing on his chestplate, which is actually too high up in this picture, because I really can't leave that thing uncolored. It's fluffing shiny.)
So by working on this I actually improved a bit; I found a better way to draw front-view noses, obviously, and I also figured out a thing with eyelashes and lips, though you can't really tell. I probably should have shaded the shoulder piece, but I really don't have its design committed to memory so I just left it unfinished. I kinda like the sketchiness, though.
I also forgot to mention that I really love the pink around the edges of his eyes, and the shading of his irises, and how I drew his lashes, and--yeah. You probably get it. I like his eyes. (But not the highlights; they came out too fuzzy, ugh. I did miss the variety of brushes found in Photoshop.)

The drawing program was really awesome and was much better at making lineart than PSE, but as I'd expected, like most Autodesk products it was kinda expensive. To me, at least. (like, sixty dollars )
I totally would have bought it if it was, like, half that much, though.
I think I'll still search around for other programs, however, since I don't think PS is very suited to the sort of digital art I make.

(Oh! and a word for my dearest watchers: I apologize for being so inactive recently, as school work has been keeping me extremely busy and I've had zero time to draw. Love you all, and I hope to get on soon!)

Asking for critique because even though it's not perfect, it's probably the best digital piece I've done in a very long time. ;u;

Drawn in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro.
Edited in Photoshop Elements 8.
Loki belongs to Marvel.
Art is mine.

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comments are way better than faves! <3
I went to visit my cousins this weekend, and the oldest one, Katelin (who's my younger sister's age) showed us her new tablet and art program she'd gotten from her grandpa. She's an artist too, but after getting the tablet (some sort of Wacom, one of the really expensive ones) she's completely switched over to digital. Well, almost completely. It's her medium of choice, at least.
She'd improved tenfold since I'd last seen her work (shoot, some of the stuff she showed me was pretty fantastic) and after looking through the sketchbook I'd brought with me, she wanted to draw one of my characters. I helped her find reference pictures for Snap, since there are a lot in there, and as she sketched up a headshot on the computer I watched how she drew noses. She's really good at noses and eyes.
And I was just like 'shoot, that's a way better method than what I do' and decided to draw front-view noses like her from then on.
(I told her I'd learned something from her, and she was really flattered; from then on, whenever someone walked in and complimented the Loki picture I was working on, she'd be all like 'buT THE NOSE IS MINE' or something lol)
She's a big Loki fan too (finally, someone I know!), so we sat and talked about Loki and Thor 2 and whatnot for a while. (She also introduced me to a couple dozen of her OCs, my favorite of which is Blueberry, an owl-pirate.)
Earlier that day we'd watched Thor (they owned it on DVD, much to my delight) so of course I was in one of those stupid Loki moods and when she let me try out the program (Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, btw) I had to draw him. (Had to.) She doesn't include a lot of shading detail in her art, though, so she was pretty impressed as she watched me work.

He took fluffing forever omg
But I reallyreally love how he came out, even if it was a lot more detailed than what I'd expected. (Part of me doesn't like it, because he's looking straight ahead at the viewer and that kind of thing always makes me uncomfortable--but oh well, whatever.) I just kept adding more and more lol
It's also about fluffing time I give him a different expression, too. This one suits him better, anyway; I'm always forgetting that he's actually sorta evil, OTL
Originally it was going to be just black and white except for his eyes (shoot, I do love green eyes), but I finished everything else and was itching to color his lips for some reason (seriously, I love adding blush to pictures), so then this happened and he just looks ridiculously pale. (I also colored the gold thing on his chestplate, which is actually too high up in this picture, because I really can't leave that thing uncolored. It's fluffing shiny.)
So by working on this I actually improved a bit; I found a better way to draw front-view noses, obviously, and I also figured out a thing with eyelashes and lips, though you can't really tell. I probably should have shaded the shoulder piece, but I really don't have its design committed to memory so I just left it unfinished. I kinda like the sketchiness, though.
I also forgot to mention that I really love the pink around the edges of his eyes, and the shading of his irises, and how I drew his lashes, and--yeah. You probably get it. I like his eyes. (But not the highlights; they came out too fuzzy, ugh. I did miss the variety of brushes found in Photoshop.)

The drawing program was really awesome and was much better at making lineart than PSE, but as I'd expected, like most Autodesk products it was kinda expensive. To me, at least. (like, sixty dollars )
I totally would have bought it if it was, like, half that much, though.
I think I'll still search around for other programs, however, since I don't think PS is very suited to the sort of digital art I make.

(Oh! and a word for my dearest watchers: I apologize for being so inactive recently, as school work has been keeping me extremely busy and I've had zero time to draw. Love you all, and I hope to get on soon!)

Asking for critique because even though it's not perfect, it's probably the best digital piece I've done in a very long time. ;u;

Drawn in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro.
Edited in Photoshop Elements 8.
Loki belongs to Marvel.
Art is mine.