Friday, July 10, 2015

An earlier time

 My prologue in drawing probably started in D&D. While I was bored I drew my character and got praised for it. I guess I'm pretty simple when it comes to being rewarded when telling me I'm good at something, but the feeling stuck with me that day. I still thought the drawing was garbage, but I liked being told that something I created was 'really good'. From here I thought, "I could do better...". Also drawing was a reason I decided to keep playing D&D, because I liked the setting and characters. So I have to thank D&D for fueling my drawings, and my drawings for helping me appreciate D&D. Most of all, I have to thank my DM for starting my inspiration spark. Through D&D I learned what I really loved to do.

These all were probably drawn 2 years ago? before I thought about drawing for cereal.
 
Here I had my first character. At first she was a little girl but I changed her design. I knew 0% of the rules and she was a cleric with Hellknight armor and 10k fortune cookies. I was always a fan of contradiction between character looks and personality but my devil look could use work hahahah. As you can see here I was very lazy and created a head to replace the old one for the final thing. ;;
 This was another character I drew for my partner. I drew everyones character but I only have some saved. Again, I just drew what I knew, easy stuff. You can see how safe I tried to be when drawing back then.


 The friends who played D&D more than the rest of us had the most interesting character designs, I'm disappointed I did not get to a certain alchemist character but I'll probably someday get back to him, he was my favorite. Anyway, this bitch character here is a character one of them made. She wasn't anything too special but she was an elf and I wanted to try drawing their ears so I had to draw her. I unexpectedly learned a lot when handling her.
 ugh.
 My friends were happy about this version of her... but meh.

 I got very irritated by the first result so I redid her design. I learned I was terrible at designing clothes.
 What I really liked about doing this character was that the player she belonged to was very picky about details like her hair, especially about her hair, so I had to learn how to make the hair more interesting.


After I didn't finish colouring her I went on hiatus for awhile. Then today I saw these drawings. Today, they are very weird to me.