Bigblah draws animu
 

This one's a birthday gift for someone who's drawn quite a few awesome pictures for my fellow comrades in Team RTFO (GFF ragnarok online guild), and I thought a picture would be an excellent reciprocation.

Notes:
1. This is my second serious attempt ever at drawing an anime-style character (or any character, even), the first one being eyeballed off a fansub freeze frame. This one's done from scratch, without any reference.
2. It's completely done in mspaint with a mouse, and using only the paintbrush tool. Left click to paint, right click to erase. I'm a masochist.
3. I suck at drawing hands.
4. It looks better when viewed from a distance!

http://content.imagesocket.com/image...ie_bday2ea.gif

And stop laughing at the fact that I added antennae. You try drawing those in mspaint.

hey dude. I don't think it's bad at all. Better than what I can do using the computer!

later.

Oh, is that a challenge? ;)

I think its alright. How to draw effectively in MSpaint is actually very similar to the way you paint Oekaki. A lot depended upon the clever use of guidelines and curve tools and even differentiating color erasers (yes, that's a MSpaint feature).

Give the curve tools in MSPaint a spin, I am sure you’ll find it useful.

Haha, the right click action for the eraser tool. I never knew it did that.

By the way, here's my aforementioned first attempt:

http://www.bigblah.net/upload/fafal.gif

Much neater here, since I had a reference (Fafal from Scrapped Princess). The character in my first post is an original creation... sort of =p

Yum. Antennae.

EDIT: If you want the hand critiqued, the only thing I'd comment on is how far out the thumb sticks. Otherwise, it looks fine!

This is in fact some pretty awesome stuff. I like drawings like these much more than this ordinary coloured yaoi-like shit. And if you're a fan of Andy Warhol like me, you gonna like this anyway ;)

There's nothing wrong with yaoi okay!?!

I mean... good work blah.

I wasn't very happy with how the drawing looked so I did some touching up.

Here's an animated .gif comparing the changes:

http://content.imagesocket.com/image...dayswap5aa.gif


So, presenting version 2.

Advice for fellow budding artists: ADD MORE HAIR


Edit: version 3 (hand fixes).

MOAR HAIR = HOTTER PICTURE.

Good job blah.

Imagine what he's capable of doing with pencils.

Not much, actually. I'm currently no good at anatomy and proportions (face is too big, hand is too small, etc). I took a look at your miko picture (the one listed at the very bottom in your thread) and gave up drawing forever.

Then again, at least I can draw silly vehicles. I'll scan some of my earlier pen works (erasing is for wimps!)

Wow, for first and second drawings those are fantastic! When I look back at my first drawings in middle school, I just feel embarrassed for myself.

More hair is always good. No one can have too much hair in anime.

(I also enjoy drawing with pen, especially ballpoint. Take that, pencil wimps!)

Your artwork style reminds me of those days of Macross ^_^. She's cute though.