I never got to start working on these prompts by Hive account@artparks Sketchtember Challenge earlier, so I'm pretty much late by the given dates, but I read the admins said there wasn't any deadline and you can post a blog about it anytime, so now I am starting it before September ends, and I just realized while writing this that time flies so fast that the year is almost ending... and a reminder that my age will add again 😆

I jump to the 2nd-week Prompt which is a crossover because I'm still contemplating week one's topic since I drew 4 anime characters and I can't decide who to redraw. Last night I thought of my favorite character Suletta Mercury from Gundam Witch from Mercury and then I saw Rukia from bleach and thought "Hmm, why don't I try drawing Suletta wearing a captain uniform from Bleach"

SKETCH

well you don't really have to read much of what I'm about to say since you can see my progress with the timelapse video I shared above hahaha but I'll just put a little description on my experience trying this.

It's been a week now that I have tried using Clip Studio Paint, I am still learning how to use its tool by watching lots and lots of video tutorials about it and slowly getting it.

LINEART

watching lots of video is confusing, the suggested brushes by different artists ain't a helped either, I realize you need to use a comfortable brush, i mentioned in my previous blog that I have found a perfect brush for me to use but I realize it's not cut out to be a good lineart for me, so I asked my friends on discord who also used CSP about their line art brushes which im still gonna explore again.

COLOR

I'm contemplating whether I should use a raster or vector layer because I wanted my drawing to look more like a sketchy one compared to a formal one on vector, but then, as a result, it looks ugly, HAHAH yes! I criticize my drawing a lot, I find it ugly because It doesn't result in what I have in mind and I wonder how other artists do it, clean line art, coloring it in a faster and coloring way...

I used laso tool to achieve a flat color but then It still looks unclean, why? because I used a single layer 😆

SET UP

by single layer is this! One of my struggles with coloring is with layering, I know everything should be separated but my hard headed self just wanted to try a single layer,

so far the list of struggles I have to improve are

• my line art
• layering
  and.. and... actually Zenbu!! EVERYTHING!! 🤣

*sigh I'm still far from being a good digital artist similar to my artist idols i see on YouTube and TikTok, but

NEVER BACK DOWN NEVER WHAT?!!!

NEVER GIVE UP! 🤣

I'm not giving up on my dreams of becoming a manga artist just yet

FINAL

welp there's still so much to improve especially with the lighting since everything is still flat despite me putting shades on it, I'll work on the layerings and might actually try vector layer in csp to see if I can get a clean lineart with its process.. anyways!

THANK YOU FOR READING!