3D Metropolis

Now:

Drawing Delilah (no, not Running Delilah, though that may have been where I got the name) was fun. At this stage in my artistic development I was starting to do a few things right, like drawing from photo reference for a (meta)human figure, and drawing at a larger size (higher resolution) than the final version shown here.

Of course there are plenty of things I still didn’t get yet, but I’ll leave the flaws for you to discover on your own this time.

Then:

People, particularly faces, are often my favorite subject matter. I was bored of drawing completely mundane people, so this time around I created Delilah. She could be a contemporary Elf girl… maybe by around 2060 we will all get to meet people like her.

Sketching Delilah was a lot of fun, I had a nice reference (for everything but the ear) and tried to mix a bit of painting with my pencil technique for parts of this image. Being able to sketch in full screen on my 19″ monitor with Corel Photo-Paint 10 and my Intuos is amazing, and infinitely forgiving as well. I’m sure my painting technique needs work, but I am very happy with the realism I can get from my custom pencil tools. Though overall my most important task is probably to practice drawing more regularly so that I don’t rely on reference so heavily and can sketch from my imagination with more ease (which would be especially useful when doing production design sketches for my 3D animation projects).

This image was created on May 9, 2001.