Fixing angel

I wasn't happy with the angel's clothes, so I redid them in clip studio (I'm not yet comfortable doing a lot of inking in it, but it's fine for small amounts.)

Much better!

Anya & Perena Lewitz

A picture that has been in my head - good to get it out! Though it doesn't really look like I imagined.

These are characters from Chris Walley's Lamb among the Stars series, but imagined as children.

I tried to get over their appearance, personalities, tastes and future occupations (biologist/space captain) - no attempt at looking futuristic!

3D model in Clip Studio

Just used the Clip Studio 3D figure model for the first time. Looks like it'll be useful!

Merral in armour

Doing some drawing practise.

"The bad old days are back."

This is Merral in his armour, from The Dark Foundations by Chris Walley. Drawing sci-fi armour is not something I ever do, so I have no guarantees this actually makes sense. Also, it's from memory so may not be entirely accurate.

I got the pose from Jazza Studio's anatomy reference pack.
Here's how the drawing progressed. I started it out as a 'life' drawing, but always with the intention of using it to draw this final picture. Killing two birds with one stone.

Angel sketch

Based on a photo from last year.

Teenage artwork redrawn

Thought I'd redraw one of my children through history. Good to see I've improved in 23 years!

Symmetry tool, rulers, & digital inking

The symmetry tool in Clip Studio is useful!

You set a line of symmetry, and then everything you draw on one side appears mirrored on the other. I thought of it just as a fun gimmick, but have just discovered its use for pencilling a symmetrical picture. Don't think it would be good to ink with it, but ideal for sketching.

And I also inked this picture digitally! First time I've done this. Really nice, controllable tools. Including rulers you can draw along - I used the straight ruler for the sceptre, and (after much trial and error) set curved rulers for the big sweep of the throne's arms.

Colouring was still done in Corel Photo Paint, as I can do it in my sleep! May switch some time, but no need at present.

Mrs Sigma & Mr Omega

The final two of my Greek maths characters redrawn. These ones were adults, because they're capital letters.

This has been a very fun thing to do. It also has enabled me to create much more interesting characters than I would if you just gave me a sheet of paper and said, "Draw 9 children and two teachers."

As Jake Parker said, "Creativity thrives on constraint" - in this instance having to echo the shape of a character designed from a Greek letter, representing particular maths/science functions (pretty tenuously, I admit)

And here are all they all are. Please ignore the fact that they were drawn separately and the proportions and style don't always match!

Perspective ruler drawing practice

Manga Studio* has this really cool function - perspective rulers!

You set  your perspective, and then you can constrain your lines to the correct perspective. I'm sure this will be very useful. Though will need a bit of practice.
 

I hadn't yet calibrated my pen pressure, so  I found it really hard to get decent thicks & thins.

Thought I'd try to do some basic lighting as well.

Yes, it would look better with stuff on the shelves.

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*Now called Clip Studio, but that's not as nice a name.

Zeta

The last of the kids (just the adults to do now).

I never felt Zeta was that interesting a character, despite being the mascot. Or perhaps because of that -  he didn't really have any other meaning.

But I'm quite pleased with the real boy.

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I've never tried to draw skinny jeans before. Worked out OK.

Previous characters:
Gamma
Pi
Phi 
Lambda 
Theta
Alpha & Beta (half way down)
Delta

Delta

This one was quite tricky - to at least in some way echo his body shape and pose.

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Previous characters:
Gamma
Pi
Phi 
Lambda 
Theta
Alpha & Beta (half way down)

Theta, Alpha & Beta

Theta:

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Alpha & Beta:

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Beta's hair was tricky to make look like a plausible style and still be related to the letter.

As Alpha and Beta are twins I let myself cheat a little :-)

Previous characters:
Gamma
Pi
Phi 
Lambda

Gentlemen

Very rough sketch based on a scene outside Lidl.

I like when people treat children with the same respect they'd give adults.

Lambda

Here's Lambda!

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Previous characters:
Gamma
Pi
Phi

Phi

Next in the series drawing my greek maths characters as real children.
Here's Phi.

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That hand with the paintbrush was tricky - I had to copy my own hand.
I like how I did more realistic eyes on this one.
And I was very happy with the hair!

I'm finding it strange without my usual colour palettes. But probably strange in a good way - I have to think more about the colours, instead of just going to my default skin colours, for example.

Previous characters:
Gamma
Pi

Pi

And here's Pi. That was a trickier pose! I think he's maybe a bit young looking compared to Gamma.

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Gamma

I just got a new program - Clip Studio Paint (formerly Manga Studio).

Thought I'd try it out by redrawing my wee greek letters as real kids.

Here's Gamma. Took about 50 minutes.

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Maybe I should have done her with scientist's goggles instead?