Welcome!: My fine Photoshop Art #1

Hallöchen!

I hope some of you nice Steemians are interested in my digital art. :D

Since I was in kindergarten, I did enjoy drawing. While my artistic journey started with drawing ugly Pokémon like a lunatic, I would later scrabble weird fanart of ridiculous anime characters. I guess this resembles the typical development of an artist. Everybody suffers looking at their old art works…

However, recently I decided to work a bit on my dusted art skills and to draw more often. So I figured I could present you guys a work of mine and its progress! : ) I am using Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0, which is pretty outdated I guess since I used no other program for the last 8 years…

As references for my artworks, I usually look out for photos of fashion models, which give me an idea of realistic and interesting poses. Furthermore, my drawings concentrate on characters, which I made up sometime in the last 15 years and accordingly their designs may look very odd. :0

My sketches always turn out to be a little bit confusing and scrawled, but here you can see a cleaned version. I also try to mark the shadows, which will be disregarded completely later on and everything will be shadowed as I feel like!..

Since I tried to color this image in a kind of ‘realistic’ way, drawing line art was not necessary. I am also used to work with many layers. Therefore, I draw every object on a different layer and color them separately. I know this is frowned upon many artist, but I don’t know any better.

There are many details, which I really look forward to working on. For example, in any other picture I would start with the eyes. As they can’t be seen this time, my concentration went to the sunglasses first. (I never drew shades in Photoshop before.) For the hair, I used by the way an amazing brush I found on deviantart a long time ago.

Every time I start a drawing I am like “damn, this will look awful” and although this feeling sticks around for a bit longer, it always surprises me how much more details you can work out with a proper shadowing. (Even if my shades are not always accurate and pretty rough.)

In all those years I kind of specialized in drawing only humans. I will avoid doing proper backgrounds at any given time. Trust me. And although I am not so keen on drawing clothes, because they will always look a bit plastic in my art style, I enjoyed choosing the colors. In the past I did tend to only mix glaring colors together. Nowadays I try to pick them more carefully…

Well, here you can see the finished piece! As I am looking at it now, there could have been a bit more work done though. However, I guess it won’t come closer to the vision in my head for the time being. This will be a task for a later drawing… It took me about ten hours and I definitely had fun!

Thank you for your visit and I hope you also enjoyed it! : )