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Out of this whole page, my favourite (excuse me, I’m Canadian) panel has to be the second panel. I don’t know why but it is. I had to redo Noir’s hair because the first time around, it looked like a big, ugly, splotchy mess and that was before I added the shine (or highlights) to her hair. The second time around, it looked much better and I’m happy with it. Although…I also like the first panel too. At first, I didn’t but when I added the night sky and played around the shadows, I quite liked it. I was like “Wow, this looks pretty good.”
Noir has come a long way since I first drew her three years ago. (Wow, it’s been three years already?) or rather my art has come a long way since then. I believe I’ve improved because I draw a lot and also due help from my friends. (Although at times, I just didn’t want to hear it but I listened anyways). I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.
(Here are the pictures)
First Picture of Noir
Second Picture of Noir
Noir Currently
Experiment
Some friends or rather one in particular, wasn’t much of a help though now… we aren’t really friends. Anyways, I remember in grade nine, she’d always make snide little remarks for example “Oh, I like this looks even though you can still see where you erased. How can I get that effect?” Even back then, it ticked me off a little.
She was an artist too but all I would ever see is unfinished pictures or multiple versions (though they were all the same) of one thing. There was no eraser marks, the pictures always seemed to be drawn based on a screenshot from an anime, looked exactly like said screen shot and it looked too perfect. Did she trace? Probably. Can I prove it? Not really nor do I care enough to try to.
She did draw a picture of one of my characters for me as a gift but it comes to no surprise that this picture isn’t done and obviously I never got it. She did however show me what she did do. And well…It looked like crap. She hardly improved at all. This particular character of mine has soft, flowing, wavy hair but this sketch it was opposite, the hair looked sharp, harsh…Well it just didn’t look like hair. I asked myself if she could ever draw anything pretty and soft?I doubt it.
It made me realize that we’re two different people with two very different personalities and styles. (Not for the first time, I assure you.) Sure, we were friends once but people change…I just couldn’t stand how she treated people like they were objects to be thrown away when they weren’t needed anymore.
Whoa, now we’re getting off topic here. I’ll stop.
