Well, uh…………yeah, I said a while ago that if I drew anything that somewhat resembled something decent, i’d upload it, and here is said abomination. The drawing itself wasn’t anything magnificent from the start; her face is too wide, the eye’s are too slanted, nose is pretty awful-looking, etc. But that’s besides the point. I wanted to see how well I could trace, color and shade something I drew with photoshop. What I discovered is that shading is just as much of a pain in the ass as it’s made out to be.

Personally, I like the shading on the hair, albeit the hair color and highlights may be a bit too bright/sharp. I originally intended the picture to be a full-body drawing, but I got to the hands, realized that they SUCK ASS to draw, stopped, and just did this. Given a bit more practice I could probably do some decent-looking work, but for a first shot at basically everything, I’m satisfied enough with this.

Oh, and while I had photoshop open I made a quick wallpaper with a pre-cutout image, just to use it. It’s nice, but I totally cheated on everything and used tons of premade brushes for basically the whole picture :P

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