Nadine, I think you shouldn't say "This is the best work I have ever seen!!", because obivously that's not true. If you say that to about every other person who does drawings, it loses its meaning, and people may start to think that you did not mean it, and then they might start to think every person who tells them they're good at drawing is just lying, and then they might start to think they're not good at all... (Okay, I am highly over-speculating, am I not?)
I am trying to say this without trying to be offensive, because I have no intention to insult you; please don't be insulted. It was just some advice. I think it sounds bit mean the way I said it, but English is not my first language, and I am having hard time enough with making my point clear at all while writing in English. Sounding mean is just a side-effect that's not intended to exist.
I told this just because I have noticed that it seems to be some kind of unwritten rule here to be as polite as possible, and then being just "as polite as normally" easily starts to seem rude, even when not meant to be.
Do I do requests? I haven't thought about that. I might try to.
Truttle, I just draw a lot. I'm drawing something all the time. I've been drawing all the time since I, as a baby, learned how to hold a pencil (and according to my mom, I learned that much earlier than most kids). Drawing has became like sleeping or breathing or eating to me. Those are the only things I just can't stop without dying as a result.
And the fan arts of the day:
Denahi strikes again! The watercolor version of the Denahi pic I posted earlier. This looked better quality in real life (my scanner did not like the colors and damaged them, and the surface of the paper didn't look so rough; now the roughness of the paper is disturbingly clear).
Drawing the Transformation scene is becoming my whole-time job, it seems. This was done with everything I found around our arts classroom at school (two different sets of crayons, some watercolor pencils, dark blue paper).
I am aware of the fact his left arm looks few metres shorter than the right. It's supposed to be the perspective. I also am aware of the fact that according to the shape of the magnet field of Earth (or whatever), the perspective of the Aurora Borealis is waaaay incorrect. Aurora Borealis/Borealises/whatever are able to take the shape of a bow
like in this photo, but not the kind of "widen-up"-shape they took in my pic. Aurora borealis look like they go the wider the
downer they go (a perspective thing). I drew it the way I did because it looked more dramatic.
This looked better in real life (scanning it practically destroyed the whole look of the pic). I worked long time photoshopping it to give the digital pic the same feeling the original IRL pic has. I added plenty of highlights digitally, because it looked quite dull without. The Auroras weren't that bright-colored in the IRL pic, and they did not seem to work very well in the digital version, so I pretty much re-colored them. And the "glowing, reddish highlight"-effects in shading are done digitally.
I actually do not like this pic itself, but I like the feeling and atmosphere of it.
I did another pic using similiar technique, but my arts teacher has it now. I'll scan it when I get it back. I think it was better than this is. It was of Kenai and the spirit waterfall.
A very simple pic of Kenai. I haven't been inking linearts and coloring pics in Photoshop since forever. The lineart even turned out OK despite me having plenty of technical problems with it.
This is the same picture without shading. A very simple pic of Koda. I did not shade this at all. I was still having a problem with all the brushes I was trying to ink this with. I need to get new brushes! Miraclously I didn't manage to spoil this while inking with those not-so-good brushes.
Kenai drinking tea - Colored in Photoshop. Not shaded. I might do a shaded version of this someday. (Did they have
tea in Alaska when it was still the Ice Age? I have no idea.)
Kenai, Koda and Denahi looking up to the skies above - Photoshop coloring. Maybe NOW you would like to remember me mentioning those technical problems with doing lineart? Curse those brushes... Denahi doesn't look like himself, nor does Koda, and why did I even post this...?
And
never try to re-shape a brush with scissors, when you think it is mis-shapen. It surely is AFTER you trimmed it.
Kenai bear - sketched.
Practising to draw Kenai bear - some sketches. I like few of those.
Practising to draw Koda - One of those is even colored. Note the word
practising.