"The Nebulous Nine" — more adventures in lighting faces

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"The Nebulous Nine"

(more adventures in lighting)
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Hi everyone! I am sketching@sketching still and bring to you the "Nebulous Nine." I enjoyed so much my last experiment with painting rough sketches I decided to do it again. I plan to focus on drawing faces for quite a while as I find them so fun to work on. The approach of doing many different characters in rapid succession is good for a beginner like me to get lots of practice in and experiment with different lighting angles.

I am going to show some of the steps like I did last time and also include a couple of variations for the background gradient. Which do you like better? Let me know in a comment! I also want to say thank you so much to the Sketchbook community for showing me love — a special shoutout to steemed-proxy@steemed-proxy, curie@curie and mineopoly@mineopoly for supporting my work. It really means a lot to me and adds fuel to the fire of my motivation to improve at digital sketching and painting.

Step one — sketch the characters


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Step two — add a paint layer underneath sketches


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Step three — add background gradients underneath


Version 1


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Version 2


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Version 3


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Thank you again for supporting my work!
Have an awesome day and keep sketching@sketching :-)
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May 10, 2020


Version 4


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Version 5


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