[ButterflyChaser]

An expressive piece. Not meant to be much, since my drawing skills aren't really much. I lost a cat who meant a lot to me this last week. I tried sketching out a butterfly just for the heck of it and to see if I could get my mind off the depression I've been feeling on top of it all. It was an epic failure. It got no response and I felt like no one really cares. I don't know who to talk to here. No matter where I go I feel like an outsider, not really welcome. Thus this lame sketch. I kind of like it except it turned into a dragon like creature rather than a cat. The pose turned out stiff, but oh well. That's what I get for trying to sketch straight onto the computer.

[Scoobs]

Whoa. Drawing skills aren't much? So modest. This should be in intermediate ^_^

[ButterflyChaser]

compared to those who can draw hyper realistic wolves and stuff, I am not good at that.

[AppaloosaCake]

intermediate

[Shiko Hayashi]

Uh, intermediate much? I love your drawing by the way and I have a feeling I know how you feel. I'm sorry that you feel like that. I know it hurts and you just want someone to understand, and yet, you know they never will.

[ButterflyChaser]

Thanks. The feeling comes and goes. I feel okay then wham, I feel down. It's getting near winter and winter has always been hard on me.

[Shiko Hayashi]

Yeah. It's so weird. one minute I could be having the time of my life in a car driving when the next second, I just want to cry. It hurts so much. Then, it's gone. It's weird. But yeah. Nice drawing. I don't think I could ever do something like that.

[ButterflyChaser]

I don't like how the sun sets around 4:00, gets colder earlier and there isn't much to photograph outside after the trees have dumped their leaves. I can't explore on my bike as long as I could in the summer. By the time I'm ready to start my trip, the sun is setting and it would be time to go back home anyway. I guess being semi-housebound has not helped. Not that I can't go outside, just I don't feel up to it.

I like the wet-down effect you did with your person's hair. If you can, go over with a very transparent brush (the pen or watercolor tool) and follow the lines of the hair to bring highlights. That's what I did with the fins and spine on the creature. I also figured out the layer feature. Layer 1, (background) leave as is or color with the base background color. Layer 2, do the rough sketch with a very light color. Layer 3 outline. Then add a layer under that to do the coloring. I find it helps to color with a solid color first, then go over with the airbrush to add the lighter and darker colors. The texture was done with turning up the scatter and spacing.

[Shiko Hayashi]

I love to bike ride. But it's getting colder, oddly, and when I go outside, it's just too cold to go around as long as I would like too. Then, I'm just too tired to care and I find myself back on the computer, oddly, doing the thing I told myself to get off of. Like role playing or practicing my drawing. *sigh* I don't know if this is how you feel, but I sure as heck understand what you mean.

Oh cool! I don't think I've ever used a transparent brush before....

[Nahc-Aros]

*GASPS!* Its amasing!