It took me about 5-6 years of ever-changing art style to come to this but I am honestly glad as I never was till now to finally enjoy fully a drawing I made and be proud of it.

Every time I would have a picture in my head I would try to draw it but it would always be like a 70-80% enjoyment I got out of it since there was always something missing and I could never just do what I truly enjoyed.

I bounced from one art style to another and another constantly seeking the one that suited me the best, since I was never good with coloring correctly and precisely and the shadows kinda eat my heart too. So basically cell shading was a big no-no to me because I don't have the pulse, that's one of my main issues. My wrist just can't keep any pulse to make a straight line for the life of me, so I have to just swing my wrist quickly to make a somewhat steady line. From that, I moved to not so precise and neat drawings using just the basic not sharp edged brush to draw the shadows and it kinda worked for me because I could hide my imperfect lines between layers but still, I wasn't satisfied cuz I wanted to add more detail and it would just not be possible.



In the end, I downloaded a huge, huge pack of all kind of brushes and I found some brushes that just blend together incredibly well and they look like if the drawing was pained. I began to play around with them and I realized that this was incredibly suited for me but I was still afraid of just starting a base with no lineart or barely any lineart and just underdraw the lineart and that'd be it. I used to still do the lineart and then fill it in with regular hard brush and overlay with shadows and highlights using the paint brushes I use now which can be clearly seen in my previous drawing and I was not happy.



Today I took courage and decided to just do a rough lineart to know what I wanted to put where and start painting and coloring everything just using the paint brushes. No hard overlay anymore. It incredibly blended in and I was so happy that finally, things began to work out as I intended them to do. I contoured the curves to the point the lineart was not even necessary to be used and I just made it invisible.



Tested new things and took the fear of failure out of my head and this is my first ever drawing I did I'm almost 100% happy with and confident about.



Please, enjoy!





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Made with Photoshop CC 2015