It has been a really long time since I last posted anything. From an everyday posting routine, it slowed down into once every 2 or 3 days, to none at all. The sun, the moon, and even the stars definitely saw how occupied I was the last couple of days. Life had caught up to me so bad that I couldn't even find the will to pull out a pencil and begin to draw.

Today, in an attempt to even remotely show that I am indeed alive, here's a quick post about one of my old works. Rest assured that a brand new content will come in the coming days, but for now, let me present to you Faith.

The Girl Named Faith

Faith is a character from a book that a friend of mine had written. As a gift for her overwhelming support on my art and writing, I decided to do a fanart of her book character.

It was originally a traditional drawing (as you can see at the right) which I drew September last year. For the traditional art, I used three ink pens of different points -- 0.3, 0.4, and 0.5 -- all of which I borrowed from my friends because I'm poor. It was drawn on a thick manila paper.

Digitizing Faith

A few days after finishing the drawing, I decided I wanted to do a time-lapse video of me doing a digital drawing. I'd always wanted to make one, but I always made excuses not to.

You can draw digitally even without tablet.

One reason I decided to do this, too, was because I wanted to let a couple of friends (who wanted to try digital drawing) know that a tablet is not a complete necessity in digital arts. You can actually survive with just your laptop's touchpad or a mouse.

All you need is Photoshop's pen tool... and a whole load of patience.

The drawing

Lineart and Colors: Adobe Photoshop CS 6 (and its glorious pen tool!)

A side note

I'm encouraging all Pinoys out there (and Pinoys at heart, who help promote Filipino community growth here on this platform)  to use the tags #philippines for English posts and #pilipinas for posts of any Filipino dialect. Pagbuklud-buklurin natin ang mga Pilipinong Steemians at sabay-sabay tayong umunlad bilang isang komunidad. 😊 Para sa karagdagang impormasyon pa, basahin ito.

Felt weird suddenly inserting a Filipino statement up there. Haha.