Yeah, seriously, this is the biggest thing I've made yet.
Here:
She is based on this character by artist Martin Walls:
And yes I changed up the jacket a bit.
The main thing here was that I wanted to draw a character I liked, but I wanted to really put my own style on it. Looking at fan art for the character online, there's a bazillion different ways she's been drawn (with the nose usually being the main shared feature among different pics), so... yeah. About time I just really do it myself instead of trying to mimic someone else's style.
Also though this one's kinda special, so it deserved more time and effort. In my "coming out" thread I'd mentioned wanting to use the name Sophie, and this character, Sophie Walten, is where the name comes from.
She's from a horror series on Youtube called The Walten Files (think FNAF, but about 200x more brutal and disturbing), and Martin's unique, off-putting art style used in the series is one of the major inspirations for me to want to learn art in the first place. Seriously, the guy does some wild stuff and I swear he seems to have like 5 entirely seperate artstyles that he uses depending on what he's going for at the time.
Now, she's not the first of his characters that I've tried my hand at drawing, I also did this guy awhile back, the Pumpkin Rabbit:
That one, I tried to perfectly mimic the character as he appeared in the specific video he's from. It's pretty much exact, and also much easier to do, which is usually the case for the "mimic" pictures. Also yes he's as psychotic as he looks.
The one thing that bugs me though is that I have no bloody idea how to do shading at all, particularly with colored pencils. No subtle shadows or anything like that. Granted there's a lot of art of Sophie that also dont use shading of that type, but still, I want to learn to do that.
Also the phrase "safety in pills, Sophie" is from a particularly memorable scene in the series. Sounds very odd out of context though.
On a side note, I cant imagine how anyone does this sort of thing professionally. My hand huuuuuuuuuuurts after doing that. It was very difficult. Doing the lettering on the jacket nearly drove me to madness, and lettering is like, my main thing.
Also I'd like to once again thank my precision eraser for this one, that's a lovely tool, cant imagine doing anything pencil-based without that now that I have it.
For now though, I dont want to so much as look at a pencil again for at least a week or so. Also seriously I should probably go take some Advil now.
Here:
She is based on this character by artist Martin Walls:
And yes I changed up the jacket a bit.
The main thing here was that I wanted to draw a character I liked, but I wanted to really put my own style on it. Looking at fan art for the character online, there's a bazillion different ways she's been drawn (with the nose usually being the main shared feature among different pics), so... yeah. About time I just really do it myself instead of trying to mimic someone else's style.
Also though this one's kinda special, so it deserved more time and effort. In my "coming out" thread I'd mentioned wanting to use the name Sophie, and this character, Sophie Walten, is where the name comes from.
She's from a horror series on Youtube called The Walten Files (think FNAF, but about 200x more brutal and disturbing), and Martin's unique, off-putting art style used in the series is one of the major inspirations for me to want to learn art in the first place. Seriously, the guy does some wild stuff and I swear he seems to have like 5 entirely seperate artstyles that he uses depending on what he's going for at the time.
Now, she's not the first of his characters that I've tried my hand at drawing, I also did this guy awhile back, the Pumpkin Rabbit:
That one, I tried to perfectly mimic the character as he appeared in the specific video he's from. It's pretty much exact, and also much easier to do, which is usually the case for the "mimic" pictures. Also yes he's as psychotic as he looks.
The one thing that bugs me though is that I have no bloody idea how to do shading at all, particularly with colored pencils. No subtle shadows or anything like that. Granted there's a lot of art of Sophie that also dont use shading of that type, but still, I want to learn to do that.
Also the phrase "safety in pills, Sophie" is from a particularly memorable scene in the series. Sounds very odd out of context though.
On a side note, I cant imagine how anyone does this sort of thing professionally. My hand huuuuuuuuuuurts after doing that. It was very difficult. Doing the lettering on the jacket nearly drove me to madness, and lettering is like, my main thing.
Also I'd like to once again thank my precision eraser for this one, that's a lovely tool, cant imagine doing anything pencil-based without that now that I have it.
For now though, I dont want to so much as look at a pencil again for at least a week or so. Also seriously I should probably go take some Advil now.
