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*So this drawing has finally made me give up on my old camera. I've been using the same Sony camera for years now. It's been a long time. Thing is, I end up having to take anywhere from 10-40 photos just to get one that is perfect, in terms of lighting, sharpness and all that jazz. And "perfect" for this camera is just passable. It's a pretty poor camera as far as standards go these days. I've been putting in extra effort, to get as many small details into this drawing as I can, but this camera just can't pick them up correctly. For example, tiny hairs around the eyebrow. It just kinda darkens the whole thing and they all get blurred together and pixelated. It drives me nuts to take a photo and not have it actually represent the work. It may not be too noticeable in this picture, but trust me if you zoom in it's definitely obvious.

So I've purchased a new camera, it's coming in a few days. I'm also going to set up a proper spot to photograph them, that way when the drawing is finished I can upload the best possible photo ._. It's been a long time coming, I'm excited *

Yo.

Doing a portrait of Ellie from the Last of Us 2 trailer. Pretty freaking hyped they're doing a sequel; hope to god they don't mess it up.

Anyways, I'm really going to take my time with this one. Been having a good amount of fun drawing it so far, so I hope I won't burn out and lose steam like I always do ._. I'm using a slightly bigger paper this time than I normally do, 11x14. I usually use 9x12. I'm going to try to make this transition for the rest of my drawings going forward too, it'll let me get more detail in there =].

1- Really the only thing "done" so far is the ear. Still need to add some depth to the top-most section of hair, and the eye is only just started.

2- Trying to get most of the left side done before I move onto the face. Really gotta focus on working left to right with this one, don't wanna have to deal with the smudging and dark graphite everywhere ._.

3- Such a small section of drawing, but soooo much work .-. One of my bigger issues when drawing is white highlights that are very small dots. I've still not really found a way to do it easily. Easiest way is to erase the dot, but then it's never as white as it should be. Hardest way is to completely draw around every white dot from the beginning, and well, that's hard when dealing with tons of white dots or pores. I like to start with a base skin layer before I do anything, but you can't do that if you want to draw around the white from the get go. It would be an extremely long process. I guess I could always just go to an even bigger paper, that way none of the dots would actually be that small xD.

4- Slowly getting there. This is going to be the last WIP before I upload the full picture. Such little amount of the drawing seems to get done between pictures, but it feels like so much work ._.

I'll update this picture as I progress.

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*EDIT*
*So this drawing has finally made me give up on my old camera. I've been using the same Sony camera for years now. It's been a long time. Thing is, I end up having to take anywhere from 10-40 photos just to get one that is perfect, in terms of lighting, sharpness and all that jazz. And "perfect" for this camera is just passable. It's a pretty poor camera as far as standards go these days. I've been putting in extra effort, to get as many small details into this drawing as I can, but this camera just can't pick them up correctly. For example, tiny hairs around the eyebrow. It just kinda darkens the whole thing and they all get blurred together and pixelated. It drives me nuts to take a photo and not have it actually represent the work. It may not be too noticeable in this picture, but trust me if you zoom in it's definitely obvious.

So I've purchased a new camera, it's coming in a few days. I'm also going to set up a proper spot to photograph them, that way when the drawing is finished I can upload the best possible photo ._. It's been a long time coming, I'm excited *

Yo.

Doing a portrait of Ellie from the Last of Us 2 trailer. Pretty freaking hyped they're doing a sequel; hope to god they don't mess it up.

Anyways, I'm really going to take my time with this one. Been having a good amount of fun drawing it so far, so I hope I won't burn out and lose steam like I always do ._. I'm using a slightly bigger paper this time than I normally do, 11x14. I usually use 9x12. I'm going to try to make this transition for the rest of my drawings going forward too, it'll let me get more detail in there =].

1- Really the only thing "done" so far is the ear. Still need to add some depth to the top-most section of hair, and the eye is only just started.

2- Trying to get most of the left side done before I move onto the face. Really gotta focus on working left to right with this one, don't wanna have to deal with the smudging and dark graphite everywhere ._.

3- Such a small section of drawing, but soooo much work .-. One of my bigger issues when drawing is white highlights that are very small dots. I've still not really found a way to do it easily. Easiest way is to erase the dot, but then it's never as white as it should be. Hardest way is to completely draw around every white dot from the beginning, and well, that's hard when dealing with tons of white dots or pores. I like to start with a base skin layer before I do anything, but you can't do that if you want to draw around the white from the get go. It would be an extremely long process. I guess I could always just go to an even bigger paper, that way none of the dots would actually be that small xD.

4- Slowly getting there. This is going to be the last WIP before I upload the full picture. Such little amount of the drawing seems to get done between pictures, but it feels like so much work ._.

I'll update this picture as I progress.