I have been into J-pop music the past few weeks (besides the occasional English ones). Listening to random suggestions by Spotify introduced me to many bands and musicians that I fell for in a matter of the first few notes.
Today's prompt for my drawing comes from a song by the SEKAI NO OWARI band, the name which literally translates to end of the world. The song was entitled Dropout, with lyrics that went:
I came from Dropout Boulevard
Through my darkest days bettered myself
And beat the odds
Nice, right? You can listen to a preview of the music below, but NOTE that the embed won't work on the hive.blog frontend. If you're at the hive.blog frontend and want to listen to the Spotify preview, then edit the address into the peakd.com domain. :)
NOTE: This one's viewable in PeakD and may not be viewable in other frontends.
Drawing Dropout
After a couple of conceptual drawings that simply revolved around my favorite genres, I decided to go back to portrait again for today. Aside from the fact that it doesn't take much time, I was severely aware of a possible learning decay (wow to me throwing in a machine learning term). This work should also serve as practice.
The portrait drawing was based off this Pinterest that unfortunately had no title or corresponding photographer that definitely merited recognition. It was a really beautiful portrait photo, and I hoped this digital painting gave her justice.
Most of the time, I have the reference opened at another screen (my laptop), but since I was running something on my laptop, I've grown accustomed to splitting my screen to view both the reference and the workspace at the same time.
For the sketch, I used the pencil brush. It's easier to work with in the base lineart compared to other brushes available in the MediBang Paint version of the Android (not sure about the PC equivalent). I was tempted to add other details, but I was tight on time because of work.
I was supposed to use the pen brush for the base colors, the same way I did previously during my first attempts at drawing with my phone (like this one). However, I think I got pretty much used to just coloring with the watercolor brush, so that's what happened.
One of the things I wasn't quite fond of in the MediBang for Android was the blur tool. Its effects just don't sit right with me, unlike the blur tool of Adobe Photoshop. I have to work with what I have, though, so I needed to settle.
You can find progress shots in the following GIF.
Details
- Device: Samsung Galaxy Note 10+
- Apps:
- MediBang Paint for Android
- Snapseed
- Brushes: watercolor (at varying opacity settings); pencil (100% opacity); smudge; blur
Notes
My favorite part to draw here was the hair. In the end, I liked how the hair ended up looking, except the horrible smudge that couldn't deliver the effect I was looking for. D: I also enhanced the colors/saturation using Snapseed.
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