Emma Stone

Have you seen Easy A? If you haven't - you should. That girl cracks me up, so funny. Without her, the movie would be nothing. Hehe. She's in Zombieland as well, and I'm guessing most of you've seen that one. Of course, she's awesome in the other movies she's in as well :)
Anywho. I had to draw her, since I'm suuuch a big fan. Hehe.

Yepp, back to Black&White again. What I'm most comfortable with. I won't give up on colors though, I just wanted to do another b&w one.
So... Photoshop again of course. Don't think I'll ever go back to Gimp when it comes to drawings.. I'm in love with photoshop, and its awesome brushes.
Took me about 6 hours, and I think... about 4 of those I spent on the hair alone... I'm not sure, but the hair was.. yeah, most of the work on this one. It was... a pain, BUT I had fun with it. Fun pain. Haha!
No, really, it was really hard to do - doing long hair is so much harder than short. Doing those long strokes without making them look like ¤%&/(€$£@ is way difficult.
The rest wasn't that hard compared to the hair, but of course, that's not perfect either. But I'm getting better :)
So now for the progress pictures. ;)

Sketch. Not sure how long it took me.. 20-30 min maybe.
Haha, my sketches are getting better as well. You can sort of tell it's her in this one. You couldn't really tell who it was on my earlier sketches... :P

Starting with the eye after filling in a little of the grey here and there.
45 min in.

Other eye, a bit of the nose and the lips, and a bit more shade put in.
1,5 hours in.

And so I decided to start on what I knew would take me the longest.
Just got in part of the base... stuff.. haha. Where most of the shadings were in the hair, and how it moved.
2 hours in.

Making the brush smaller, I started putting in more of the  the fine strands of hair.
2,5 hours in.

More shading. And then I took a break from it for a few days.
2 h 45 min in.

Starting to look right. Gotten in most of the highlighting, shades and the finer strands of hair. Also blurring it on the right side a little.
Added a bit of the background on the left side to see the contrast between that and the hair there.
4 hours in.

More or less done. just a few more highlights and shadings. And fixing the background and yeah, a few final touches. And of course my signature. hehe.
About 5,5 hours in here. What's mentioned about I guess took 20-30 min. I wasn't paying attention much on this one..




And the result you've already seen, on the top of this page.
It was fun to work on, and I enjoyed working on a black and white one. What a pain it would be to do a color one. Haha.
I hope I'll be motivated to work on a Robert Knepper drawing next, cause I only have about 3 or 4 weeks to finish it so he can sign it.. hehe. *fingers crossed it'll turn out good enough*
Anyways. Hope you liked this one.
Please comment :)
-CW-

Captain Jack Sparrow

Finally. After 8 or 9 hours, I finished it. I loved and hated working on this one, and how, I'm just glad I'm done! Haha.

Click on the picture for bigger view.
So, it's not my best work so far (that would be Dean and Sam Winchester), and I know, that that is because of the COLORS. I'm  no good with it, but I AM getting better at it. It is by far my best colored drawing so far, so I should be more satisfied with it than I am right now. I worked hard on it, BUT I could've worked harder... there are a lot of details I could've done better, and texture here and there and.. especially the hair on the left side. But I AM satisfied with the dreads on the right side. hehe.

Anyways - I'm gonna show ya'll the so-far..progress..pictures for this one. I've got LOADS :P
Started out with a sketch of course.

Actually took me 45 minutes to do the sketch alone... the drawing was huge, and I tried to make it as accurate as I could, using a grid.

Then I just added like, the base coat of the colors, so I would know better where to go from. Or something.. lol. 1 hour in here.

Then adding the details on the eyes. I always start with the eyes first. Always have, and probably always will. I often go back and work more on them as I work on the rest. It's best to get some distance from some of the parts of the drawing so that I don't draw myself "blind" on it. :P

Then I started working on the facial hair, which I thought I would -hate-, but actually, it was a lot of fun! Surprised me :)

about 2,5 hours in here





Then.. after finishing most of the facial hair part, getting all naive -thinking the rest of the hair would be super fun after that ( I was WRONG) - I started working on the hair on the left side.
I thought that since the braids in the beard was fun to draw, then the braids in the other hair would be even more fun.
Nope.
It was hell.
Too many colors. Anyways. 3,5 hours in.

Still working on the left side. This was when I started not liking it so much, and I was pretty sure I would hate doing the dreads on the right side.
(4 hours in)

Trying to add some more "basic" colors and shapes to the rest of the hair. And more detail on the.... decorations on his bandana thingy and in his hair.
5 hours in.

Who would've thought??
The dreads were SO much fun to do!!
I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I did, and I certainly didn't think they'd turn out as good as they did, that's for sure. Might be the best part of the whole drawing. HAHA.
All I did was use a high opacity and only 1px on the brush and just doodled around like a kid would on a large piece of paper, only I did it more.. eh.. controlled and real.. small.. :P 5,5 hours.

.Added more shading and stuff to he hair to make it look better on the one about this one (Something screwed up my blog entry, dunno what, can't write next to the picture above this one)

Then I added some detail to the bandana, which was... not as bad as I thought it would be, but still pretty hard.
And of course far from perfect lol.
7 hours in

 Then, final one.
I see now that there are some parts of it that I forgot to... fix. Haha, But I DON'T CARE right now, cause right now.. I can't wait to start another black and white drawing. Haha :P
This is probably as good as I can get it right now. If I had chosen to work on it even more, I'd probably just make it look worse. :P Cause that's typical me :P

Phew!

So, I hope you all liked this one. I'm happy with myself, and even more happy that I get to start a new drawing now :P

Please leave a comment, and feel free to suggest who I should draw later on :)

Cheer out (Hahaha! Only a few will get that one..:P)

-CW-

Where does patience come from...??

So, I was thinking that maybe I shouldn't post another... post, till I finished the drawing I'm currently working on - but.. as it's taking so damn LONG to finish it (!!) - I guess I'll just post some of my old drawings (again) on here, so that I don't end up giving up on this blog-thingie before it's even started.
So far I've been working on this drawings for... 6,5  hours or something. Maybe more. Not sure. And... there's too much left. I reckon it'll take me another 3 hours (at least) to finish it. Reason: It's just TOO DAMN HARD TO DRAW! I don't know what I was THINKING! And of course, I'm doing it in color. I'm brilliant.

Yeah, so.. I'm trying to stay patient. There are SO many other portraits I wanna do!! I've got this looong list on my post-it-note-thingy on my desktop,most of them are celebrities of course, and some of them, are requests from friends, and, I just wanna get started on them! Not sit around working on hair and the details on a bandanathingy for hours and hours... But oh well, if I just stay patient, I know it'll turn out to be my best colored drawing so far, so.. Yeah. Hanging in there. Dunno how some people do it... colors... *cursing*

Alrighty, now... what drawings should I post... How aboooout, some of my other black and white drawings. Hah, black and white <3 :P *singing michael jackson's song*

I'll start out with a drawing I did of my fiancè, Luke, all bloody after a wrestling match... years ago. It was pretty fun to work with, my first proper drawing with photoshop, and I -really- enjoyed playing around with some of the texture brushes.

Hehe. So, I got his face all wrong. It's too... round. Makes him look like a little kid. This, of course, was before I started using grids. But other than the shape of his face being wrong, i was pretty satisfied with it. And he used it as his facebook profile picture for quite some time, and that made me more satisfied with it :P
Took me about 3-4 hours.

Alright sooooo.... My second proper photoshop drawing was Orlando Bloom (Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean)

 

Which I was very satisfied with after I finished it. Hehe. Again - No grid. Wonder how it'd look like if I used that.... Took about 3-4 hours as well (What??? :P)
Then, Keira Knightly (Elisabeth Swann from the same movie)

Turned out alright I think. Took about 4 hours (again - WHAT? I thought I didn't have the patience to work on a drawing for that long before...)
Ok so, yeah, Pirates of the Caribbean. I was on a roll, I though, and I was planning on doing Johnny Depp - CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow as well, but never ended up doing it...
But then - dun dun duuuuuun - I saw the 4th movie last thursday - (spoiler alert. spoiler alert! Nah, not that anyone's reading this blog anyways. hah :P) and I started working on a drawing of him, finally. But of course, this is the drawing I still haven't finished... cause of his damn hair.... and believe it or not - the dreads - was NOT the hard part! That was actually easy and a lot of fun to draw. But it's the braids and the wavy part of his hair, and his bandana thingy that's what's taking me so long. Plus - I dunno what to do with the drawing, so dreading that part.. Lol.. dread..ing... (Lame, I know)

Ok, so, ending this blog now.
I'll post Captain Jack Sparrow as soon as I finish him.

Please comment, cause... I dunno if I'm writing a personal diary here or if people are actually reading (or just looking at it is fine even), and if I should keep going on with this blog stuff. :P

-CW-

Bruce Willis

My latest drawing - of the awesome actor: Bruce Willis.

I've been wanting to do a drawing of him for a while now, and as I was browsing through the images thing on google, I found this one, and I just -had- to draw it. Only took me about 2,5 hours, but I'm pretty sure it'd take an hour or two longer if he wasn't wearing sunglasses and I had to do the part that's hardest to do in a portrait: his eyes.
I WILL do another portrait of him though, without sunglasses on. Hehe.

It was so much fun drawing this one. Not only because it was done so quickly but.. It was fun playing around with the texture, the shading and the lighting. And the glasses! Oh MY that was fun! :P I'll definitely do more sunglasses-portraits. Haha.

Usually when I draw, I save several "so-far" pictures of my progress, first with the sketch, then what I've done an hour later, so on and so on. But since I didn't spend much time on this one, i only saved ONE so-far-picture.. which was this one:

I'd only been working on it for... about 30 min I think, when I saved this one.
Oh well, in later blogs, I'll show more "progress-so-far" pictures I guess, to get more out of the post.

What was funny about this one.. was that as I was drawing the nose - I realized how HUGE the right nostril looks! Hahaha. But it IS like that in the original picture as well, and I didn't know how else I should do it, as I usually draw exactly what I see. Shade can make things look funny.. :P

Now I'm gonna start working on my next portrait, which is gonna take A LOT longer than this one. I'm sure it'll take 5-10 hours to finish it - so I'm gonna go fetch myself some patience and get started.

Hope you liked this one, and please comment :)

-C-