Eve Eyota

Description:

I guess I draw Eve Eyota more than anyone else, huh? She's a lot of fun to draw. If I draw her young, I get to draw her as the young shy noble girl she was, which is it's own type of style, or if I draw her older, I get to draw the sexy, tanned, tough amazon woman she becomes. As with Cleo Archeres, I should write down her story. Love, love, love her hair. I wish I could remember whose tutorial it was that introduced me to this way of CGing hair, I would link to him in a second. Let me tell you, You don't have to pay twenty bucks or more per book at a bookstore to get your tutorials and how-tos. Just ask Google.com, that's where I get my best CGing tips. If you have a favorite artist, DEFINATELY look for a tutorial section. My CGing style is my own, but I definately owe a LOT to the many people over the years and their tutorials. You read the tutorials, take what works for you, incorporate it into your style, and learn, learn, learn. The mistake I made over and over, though, was to assume that if I did everything the tutorial told me perfectly and to the letter, that my finished project would look as great as theirs. Not so. When the tutorial tells me what type to make my layer in Photoshop, that I can do. When the tutorial tells me to add shadows and highlights, if I don't know the proper placement of shadows and highlights depending on the light sources and fabrics, etc, then it's not going to look good. That would be my advice to any artists. The most important key to drawing is knowing your anatomy (something I never bothered to study until only recently, and is the reason my art is improving) and for coloring? Know where the light sources are, Know where the shadows and highlights should be and how certain surfaces, fabrics, etc, reflect or react to lights and shadows. Don't assume or guess, Know. I'm not great at anatomy OR knowing where my shadows should be, but I do know that that's what you NEED to know to be great at drawing and coloring, so that's what I work on.

Tools:

Papermate Sharpwriter #2 Mechanical Pencil, Pentel Clic Eraser, Mead Académie Sketch Pad Paper, Photoshop 7.0, Mouse

Completed:

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