Inktober 2018 Day 9: “Precious”- with process shots
Smeagol was the first thing that came to mind when I saw today’s Inktober prompt (precious). Since I’ve never drawn him before, I figured it would be a good time to do so. First I had to find proper reference and run it through the Drawing Grid app on my iPad. I chose this image because it had a good mix of heavy tones and highlights, as well as a good close-up of his face:
The tools I would be using are Copic sketch markers (Copics are great because of the subtle value changes each one can give you. I used a lot of cool gray and warm gray), Pentel brush pen (for the heavy black parts), and Zebra ballpoint and Staedler pigment liner for details:
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Then, I drew a grid on my drawing surface :
Next I layed in the rough parts just to establish where everything was gonna go. The grid helps with accuracy, but I’m not going for a photo-realistic interpretation. I just want to make sure that the proportions are correct:
After that I tightened up the pencils and erased my grid lines:
Now we can begin putting in the inks. It is INKTOBER, after all:
Takes a while to get going, and it looks bad before it gets close to looking any good; using warm grays for his flesh, and cool gray for the shadows:
Working in more details and fleshing out:
And finally, throwing in the backgrounds and finishing details:
I hope you enjoyed the process. It was fun to work on 😁
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Very impressive. Almost has a comic like feel to it.
Thank you! Yeah, I was a big-time comic geek as a kid and its influence definitely spilled over into my adulthood 😂
Wow! This looks awesome. So beautiful! You made it look like it's so easy to draw something. I love the step by step pictures. I have closed down my doors on drawing because my drawings usually doesn't end up looking like what I'm trying to draw. But this makes me want to try again. 🤔🖍🖌
I might. Who knows! Haha 🤣
Thanks for the kind words! Drawing is definitely easier when you have a reliable process to fall back on. You should definitely try again!
Very cool!
Thank you!
Great progress photos and amazing result! I like that the set up is brownish and his eyes are blue and lips red. Great contrast!
Thank you!
You certainly have captured the scene very well, yet again, @jlv.art :D
Thank you kindly!