Some days ago I joined an art contest and lost to a digital artwork. I was so pained because I gave that drawing my best and I thought I was going to win until some hours to deadline, Some made entries into the contest with digital artworks.
I was so pained and I kinda felt like blame Nigeria for having a poor electricity power supply. We had a blackout for straight two weeks. If only there was electricity then, I could have made a digital entry too or maybe colour my sketch with photoshop. On the other hand, I felt like my pen sketch wasn't good enough instead of looking for what or who to blame for my failure
Well, It kinda motivated me a lot. I picked up my pencil and pen again then when back to drawing. This time around I was so determined to draw something that will get people wondering if it's really a pencil sketch or digital artwork. Something that will look too good to be a pen drawing.
One of the advice I got from a friend is to choose something I love and keep on drawing it over and over again until I get used to it. So I decided to go with my favour comic characters which are Spiderman and Deadpool. I just love them for their craziness and humour. For now, I am just going with spiderman only.
Here are the fundamental steps I took in drawing it
I made my pencil rough sketch of Spiderman, drew out the figure with a pencil so I can easily correct any mistake before I inked it with a pen.
I went ahead to sketch out the building structures in the city, the webs and a sack with coins flowing out of it.
Then I went ahead to draw up the buildings, ink the road, finish up the body, shade and hatch everything...
I know its still not comparable to a digital drawing but I will keep on drawing SpiderMan in the different pose until I get perfect at it. I am not yet done with that drawing, I am thinking of painting it and drawing some symbols on those coins.
Wait for it...
Here is old another spiderman sketch i drew sometime ago