Hmph, I think I’m finally mastering making smooth textures with light colors in pencils. So first I use a light color all over, then a medium color for the shading, and then a low-quality white pencil that acts as blender. (I don’t own an actual blender). The white pencil has so little pigment that smoothens the colored pencil strokes without lightening them.

However, I still had to use a much darker skin coloring than I’m used to. I need to find a way to make really light skin and still colored (since the scanner won’t read icy colors)

Anyway, today’s pin-up pic is about Sween’s sidekick Mayii. She’s supposed to look six, but since I don’t have much practice drawing kids, I went with some anime-style design. Love the dress, it’s just as I imagined it (actually, I imagined it a bit darker and I was afraid it would look too heavy).



And now that I got Sween, Jason, Archie and Mayii’s designs I can start the Angel Powers Compendium! Can’t promise when I’ll start, though. Angels using their powers seems a hard thing to draw! I need to just do it, I guess. I can always redo them later, when I got sharper skills.


The specifics:

•Time taken: Approximately four and half hours.
•Media used: color pencils and black pen with some micromarker and pencil. Cool white high quality drawing paper.
•30-day trial: Day 9/30, July 13th 2018
•Technical notes to self: So I kinda mastered doing smooth textures in light colors in pencils.