Just this afternoon, a group of Japanese students came to our campus to observe us. It's really funny that we knew their arrival just an hour before they visited, and at that time our classroom was definitely a mess. It's almost dismissal so it's really natural that clumps of fallen hair (from my stressed classmates' scalps) and clouds of dust had littered all across our classroom. Of 'course we didn't want to make a bad impression on them, so we cleaned our classroom quickly and thanked God we finished it before they arrived. Several minutes after we started our class, a group of them went inside. I thought they were just a few but it turned out they're many—like I guess, they're more than fifteen people, and while they were introducing themselves to us, I noticed a short and cute girl. She's really cute to the point that I secretly sketched her in my notebook.
When I get home, I immediately realized how crappy it was, so I decided to give it a redraw and here's the process of me redrawing that cute girl!
First, I sketch her from my reliable reference.
90% memory, 10% reference sketch lol
Then, I proceeded to trace some of the lines that needed to be prominent.
It's pretty messy, but yeah—trust the process, I guess?
Since some of the details I've drawn don't coincide with my memory of her, I made some adjustments, especially with her face proportion.
She's more fluffy-looking and not that slim-face so I kinda adjusted her face a little bit. Then, tadaaaa my cleaned sketch of her was done!
I'm really curious about how she will look when colored, so I decided to color her!
I don't know if that was a good decision, but I lowkey missed the cleaned sketch of her—and at some point, I kinda regretted coloring it.
Since I can't undo what I've done, I just tried to make it decent-looking by attempting to blend the colors and adding more details.
And that's it! It looks fine, so I guess what I made wasn't that bad.
It has been almost a month since I drew something. It's not that I'm on an art block because I do have a lot of ideas to draw, but unfortunately I don't have time and enough will to do so. I'm really afraid that my drawing process would take a lot of time, so as much as possible I didn't commit myself to any serious art project recently. But today I suddenly felt too motivated to ignore the urge to draw, and ahhh it really felt good to do so. So yeah—hopefully this motivation won't wane. I will try making quick drawings on a daily basis if that motivation would last. Hopefully 🤞...
The first picture that was used was edited in Canva, while the rest of the pictures were taken by yours truly, ridgette.