Sooo this was my favourite assignment of them all. We had to find a sketch of a character we liked and trace it in illustrator. I chose Ellie The Angel sketched by Tom Bancroft. I take no credit in sketching this character.
I thought that this would be... not easy but not as hard as it turned out to be. The entire sketch (both drawings) took me about 10-12 hours to do in total. Maybe even more. Every chance I got i was working. On the bus, at work, waiting in the mall... anywhere.
Ellie's head is what took me the longest to do and it was the first thing I decided to tackle. In due time i finished it and was happy about it.
For some strange reason I couldn't get my layers right, i would put the skin on top of the hair, earings under the hair, or her ears under her hair. But I did it.
Next was her torso and shorts. This wasn't a problematic part for me.
Then there was her legs..
It was going along well until I got to her feet.... Her feet took me a total of maybe 30min to an hour. The same problem with her head; I couldn't get my layers right. In addition to that, when I was trying to get her toes right, they didn't look like toes.
Next were her wings, and halo. They were a great success for me, I tried out different tools on them so I figured out some more tips and tricks while doing it.
And I was done Ellie's first pose.
I decided to do Ellie's second pose since it was there and I felt as if it wasn't enough. Ellie's second pose was a breeze since I already did her first one.
Yayy 40th layer! never had so many before :)
Anywho, I eventually finished her. One thing i did though was skip out on doing her second foot. I couldn't really make out the lines and I didn't want to ruin it.
I just left it
12 hours later.. the finished product
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