Drawing again!

With it being work experience next week, I finally had a free weekend! So, immediately, the pencils came out...

I've done a total of 3 portraits in the past few days, all from requests people have given me.

Some were a little rushed, and could probably have been a lot more polished if I'd have spent more time, but I didn't really want to spend ages on them. Portraits like these tend to take me between 2 and 4 hours.

I've had fun drawing these, and it's nice to be able to find something that is productive AND relaxing, two words rarely used in the same context for me!

In case you're unsure:

1. 10th Doctor (David Tennant) and The Master (John Simm)

2. Gerard Way (singer from My Chemical Romance)

3. Florence Welch (singer from Florence and the Machine)

Anyway, any opinions or feedback on these is welcome! Thanks for reading... :)

Editing Stuff

One thing I find really relaxing and rewarding is editing photos. I often accept requests from friends asking me to edit photos of themselves for Facebook, and I do my own too, but as well as that I like to edit drawings, and existing pictures from the internet.

I use a combination of PicMonkey and Serif Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 (and occasionally Paint, because it's actually a pretty useful programme!).

On the left is one of my drawings, which started life as a rather messy scanned image. After a fair bit of work erasing mistakes, fixing broken lines, improving colours and exposure and cutting out I got it to something a bit more like what you would expect in a manga comic. Not an award-winner, but it was pretty rewarding nonetheless.