I want to share some of my first drawings and paintings, as well as some random arts that I’ve made in the last 4 years since I’ve been drawing and making graphics.

Warning: Many many (horrible) pictures ahead…

I first started drawing around late 2006 when I took art in 9th grade. I’ve actually been interested in art before cause of deviantart, but I never really tried–if I did, it wasn’t realism. I started off with like 3-4 drawings of Anime/games such as Final Fantasy and Dragon Ball Z. It’s because I liked the cover and character art. I didn’t really draw that much, maybe once every 2 months, but my improvements were drastic even though I didn’t practice. A good break always help me.

These are some of the more decent drawings I that liked enough to scan.

Cloud <3 Final Fantasy VII was a nice game.

Yuna and the guy from //hack sign. My brother spilled water on Yuna’s face ><

Now time for some realism. My first 2 attempt at it looked cartoonish. Obviously I only spent 1 or so hours on these.

Both are BoA ^^

Probably my best first attempt at realism, cause it really looks like the person I was drawing.

This is towards the end of 2006, in like November. Things are starting to look up.
Sucks I never got to finish the first one.

First finished portrait, though I don’t like it.

I really like this one, and I worked on this right after the drawing above with color pencil. (End of 2006)

First good portrait of BoA. This was probably in January of 2007.

Now lets compare all of this to my most popular drawing of Song Hye Kyo in May of 2008.

Yeah, big difference. I think it’s all due to the fact that I spend a lot more time on these (patience is a virtue), and I discovered tissues for shading and blending, oh and kneaded eraser.

A lot of people tell me they can’t draw, but if you have the patience and is willing, I’m sure you can draw too. I can draw what I see, but I lack creativity.

Reference: Kelley
Time to Finish: 25 hours over a spread of 9 days
Material: A3 Bristol Board, Kneaded eraser, HB Mechanical pencil, 6B and F graphite pencil.
Date Started: July 7, 2010
Date Finished: July 18, 2010

Reference

Work in Progresses

Final

Oh, and how can I forget–I got my Macbook Pro 15.4″ laptop Saturday. I’ve been using it so far with ease and I love it. I was originally worried about switching over, but I’m glad I did. Mac is pretty easy to use if you’re not too use to Windows. And now with a Macbook, I kind of have a desire to design and such to test it.

But before I do that, I painted something for my room, which is technically mine only for the summer.

If you know me, you would know that I have no creativity whatsoever and that I can only draw and paint what I see. So without further ado, here is a horrible re-paint of Florian Olga Wisinger’s painting. I used acrylic, which I hate and is horrible with, but the canvas was also bad. So I knew this painting was doomed from the start.

So yes, as you can see, I’m not good with acrylic at all. I prefer water color. This was the last acrylic I did. It was for my sister.

It’s coming out better than I expected. For the first half of the face, I was getting worried that it wouldn’t look like him, but I have to say that this is one of my most accurate portrait, or at least looks like the reference the most.

I admit that some of the parts are my worst though, as in, the hair. I have to finish it tomorrow because I’m going back to Atlanta on Saturday. So I’m in quite a rush, which explains the horrible hair. I just have the shirt to do tomorrow.

I’ll post a semi full work in progress when I can to show what most of the anatomy looked like before I shaded in.

Update: Full Drawing. Done, January 8th, 2009