Another Photoshop day

My friend told me of an idea to a skin for a League of Legends champion. It is focused on water and ice so I immediately thought of Elsa from the Disney movie Frozen and I'm now going to draw her more realistically.

Today I mainly sketched her face and pose. It took a long time since I couldn't make a good sketch without reference and finding an good reference was hard. When I was finished with her head I just drew her pose quickly and not very detailed or exact, I'll be focusing on that later.

I did not do much today, but thanks for reading and stay awesome!

More Photoshop

So today I continued practicing reference drawing, because. . .

This time I drew Udyr, another character from League of Legends.
I focused on the sketch a lot more today since I believed that a better sketch would improve the final image considerably. Looking back now I'm not very sure yet, this image is much nicer than the one yesterday but it is probably just the amount of detail this one had compared to the other. The sketch took longer time to complete and so did the refining and coloring, but those all depend on the detail as well, so I just have to keep trying until I know what suit me best.
Also I'm not focusing to much on shadows, depth or coloring right now, I will start doing that when I feel comfortable drawing without reference. For now I use paint bucket.

I hope that I in a not to distant future can draw bodies without reference and I just might try that in a few days. For now this is good enough.

Thank you for reading, and stay awesome!

Photoshop fun

I love to draw, so I thought I'd practice some figure drawing from reference.

The first one I drew was Renekton, a humanoid lizard from League of Legends.
I used a small brush with low opacity for my sketch which served as guidelines when later drew more precisely on another layer. The main goal for me was to keep the proportions same as much as I could and I believe I did a good job, I was proud enough to color it when I was finished.

My second attempt was on a random female model.
I started out the same but it was way harder than the lizard-man. I think it was due to the lack of muscles and therefore harder to get the proportions right. After I was finished with the sketch I realized I didn't want to continue with it and just refined some parts that where completely off.

For the next time I will try to make better sketches and eventually draw without reference, but that's far in the future.

Thanks for reading and stay awesome.