O-O That... holy moly that's amazing, oh my cods I'm breathless right now. How do shade with pencil? Also lips, how do you draw lips ;-;

Tbh none of you should ask me about technique or how I do art because I don't have technique and I don't know how I do art lol I just do it the way I feel it should be done and in the moment. 

I think I made Germaine's skin too light but idk

:O ty! Traditional art is my weakness and pencils are my fatal flaw in art so I'm always trying to learn how to use them. Idk why but my brain just doesn't quite comprehend how drawing without layers works?

SHE LOOKS SO GENTLE AND I LOVE HER SO MUCH

Thank you, guys xD

@Time
Well it's not really that I know how to draw like this lol. I copied existing pictures in order to build the drawing. 
And I think you don't really need to learn how to draw realistically in order to enter an art contest. Everyone has their own style, y'know? 

Ok now two more images because I'm getting tired of taking pictures and that'll be it for today.

I sketched this one like in March I think lol. I didn't bother to finish Dalia's left hand xD. By the way, that's a kind of fancy braid Allen knows how to do. And Dalia likes it. And also I like that dress lol I designed it and I'm proud of it.

Idk how to draw handheld fans.

Then this one is from like three weeks ago or so.
Hair buns are hard to get right. Also I referenced a base for the pose. She's supposed to be holding a little dish in her left hand but I didn't draw her hands and arms correctly lol.

Just out of curiosity, can you tell who this is? I hope she's recognizable lol.

doodle

U N S L E E P

UNSLEEP ME UP INSIDE (Save meeeee)

I drew Leila.
She's Martin's mother, and in the canon GGaD roleplay her status is unknown (she's presumed dead). This is her GGaD appearance, something "from long ago", an image of happiness from a time before she met the TMG. Just a young woman enjoying the moment.
That's what the image is supposed to show. Her design is pretty simple, her clothes just something "anyone" would wear, so there's not much to comment about them. 
Although she isn’t really directly related to nature, you could say flower petals are kind of her symbol. I like to use them (for reasons) when I sketch her, and now I put them in the finished piece here.
Aside from that, I guess I also tried to put in some “symbolism”, but I’m not going to talk about that. Just focus on the setting and Leila’s smile.
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The original canvas for the image is in 2400x3200 px size, making it the largest canvas I've ever used in my art life. Something nice about having a larger size to work with is that more details can be added. Like color fades, easier/subtler blending (that I have yet to master), tiny lines for the hair...you can imagine. And well it is my first time working like this, so I feel like I didn't use the size to its full potential. It would be perfectly suited for more complex kinds of clothing, more elaborate hairdos, and small details in the surroundings. But I think that it's not bad for a first time!
I'm proud of the background too. I used a layer-blurring option I found, and that's why you can see kinda like the focus of the image is on Leila. Tbh now that I think about it I should probs have blurred the borders of her dress as well to add to the idea of a blurred focus picture. Anyways, I did most of it by hand lol. Every single blurred leaf in the background was drawn by me (they all have different colors if you look at them closely), the branches too, the tree behind, and the patches of sunny grass too. The flower petals and tiny flowers came from a brush, but I edited its colors and the shapes. It was kinda hard work to make sure I was picking the correct petal shapes and positioning them correctly, because I didn’t want them to take away the focus from Leila, and I didn’t want them to obscure her too much.
Both the background and Leila’s pose have been referenced from a stock image I found, so don’t give me that much credit.
I don’t know if I love how the face came out and I’m never sure of the coloring, but if you don’t focus on the small errors there, it fulfills its part in the overall piece.
There’s an attempt at foreshortening on that arm and hand there xD. I don’t know how well I did. At least it kinda looks like a hand?
The hair was fun to color, but, like always, I have no solid idea of what I’m doing to color lol I just go doing what looks good. Maybe some extra blueish shades in the darker areas would have worked well? I kinda failed at doing the lighting on the hair too, but I think the extra overall lighting on top of everything fixes it. This also goes for the skin.
Leila’s model got two overlays, one for the cold shade produced by sunlight, and the other one was supposed to emphasize the warm lighting,,,but I didn’t do that one well. I feel there’s a lack of orange and yellow tones for the light.
I think this is all the general information. I mainly used the watercolor brush for coloring, a custom brush for linearting, and some flower and flower petal brushes for extra effects. Oh and airbrush lol for lights
I recommend opening the image in another page so you can zoom into it and check out all the shades of color I used xD. You’ll also be able to see mistakes and probably some parts where I forgot to erase extra color. Because I can’t draw to perfection yet lol.

I’m proud of my work here, but I know it’s not the best. Several things have been tested out in this drawing and I will try to continue improving them for my next pieces. I'd also love to talk more about the process xD but I don't wanna make this too long (oops it's already long) and I'd get kinda technical anyways.

Hhhhhhng PRETTY

Lol my post got eaten when I tried to reply so a very late thank you to you guys and @Time I'll keep your tips in mind!
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I drew something

I fear shading so have the colored version for now.

JWJCJSKCKSKKFE GORGEOUS

Stop making me simp for herrrrrrrrrr bwbfnsncjsk

Just kinda practicing

I forgot to sketch one of Time and Axel's characters lol sorry
Anyways I was sketching and uh well I didn't like the first sketches I made (two in the middle) but I continued.
I wanted to draw Marsh too (bottom left) so I did a little sketch, but I messed up the expression lol they're supposed to be in thought.
At the top corner is Kewl. Then, the rest of the top row is Anima, Francis, and Topaz (idk if anyone knows her though).
In the center are Dion (rip I messed up the eyes) and Youri and well the third one is supposed to be Cheetah with pigtails but idk lol those last two didn't come out as well as I wanted.
Then, the last two are Aurae and Aniyah (bottom right).

I dedicated too much time to this so I should probably post it...
End me *cries*.

Well where to start lol. Modesty aside, I completely wowed myself with the result xD. I know it’s not a very polished finish, but it looks pretty good. It kinda bothers me that the more I look at it the more errors I see.
It’s kinda supposed to be a dancing scene I guess. It’s fanart btw so like just out of my mind, this isn’t canon and I don’t even know if it can be. Anyways, I sketched the couple first, and I tried linearting with slightly different pen thicknesses. The borders are thicker than the inner lines. Btw, the canvas isn’t very large, so I wasn’t able to add many “fine” details. The lines still look a little thick but it’s okay. The coloring was pretty easy because I already knew what I was going for. I did make a major mistake in it tho. The shadows I used aren’t strong enough. Original color version doesn’t have major lighting embellishments, it’s just regular lighting. I kind of regret trying to add too much detail to certain things (for example, I drew a lot of strands on Hitan’s feather but they mostly disappeared after I had to layer more color on top ) when I should have gone for more simple color strokes.
I don’t know how to draw or shade wings very well lol. I should have used references for that. Also I’m uhmmmmm not very proud of that side view of Helen’s face :’) but it’s not that bad. I really couldn’t figure out what to do to make it look better when I was sketching/linearting, but now I think I’ve pinpointed at least one thing that makes it look weird. Please don’t focus too much on that part xD. Face proportions on the two are weird and I apologize. I kinda rushed with that because then I was really motivated to finish. And I also apologize for how Hitan looks lol I’m not very good at drawing males xD.
About the clothing choice, I didn’t put a whole lot of thought into it. I know Hitan wears white, so he got a formal suit in all white. I’m pretty sure that Helen wouldn’t like to wear a dress, but hey this is fanart lol, anyways I thought she’d look nice in red. It’s a backless dress because I couldn’t figure out how to make her wings pop out. And there’s a ribbon because I like ribbons and I can rarely pass up the opportunity to put at least one on a dress lol. I feel I should have done something a bit fancier with Helen’s hair, maybe like one ribbon or maybe I could have drawn it in a braid, but nah I just made it orderly and removed the frizz xD. Hitan’s hair was fun to do but I don’t know if it’s accurate or not lol I wasn’t sure about the bangs,,,if I had added more it would’ve covered the eyes but now I feel I didn’t add enough hair on his forehead xD. I like drawing hair though and shading it was interesting because I tried to not add much light as it would come from another source on another upper layer.
By the way, there’s something interesting about the clothes in the finished image that I tried to add. Because of how light reflects, Helen’s dress has a bit of a whiteish glow from Hitan’s clothes, and Hitan’s suit has a (very faint) reddish hue in certain parts from Helen’s dress. It’s my first time trying to do something like this so I just used the airbrush and left it like that lol.
Now, ah, the background. Oh, that took me a whole LOT more time than the previous part. Look, I had originally sketched a more or less flat background (directly horizontal) but then I decided that it would look nice if I added a bit more…depth? And yeah, I tried to do that lol. I had to resketch it and then work with lineless because I don’t like having many black lines on my backgrounds. It can’t be seen very well in the finished version but I added texture to the floor and the wall has shading lol. I shouldn’t have bothered with that tbh but I did.
The columns there are another story lol. I tried to texture them a little too but only managed to do it in the lower part. The other part uhm I tried to make it look like they’re carved columns. That was painstaking work and it even looks a little shabby lol. There’s faint original shading but, once again, I shouldn’t have added that because I could add it on another layer later on.
And the windows, the windows,,, They ate a lot of my work too lol. They’re not textured, but I shaded them with care so they’d look like stone or marble. I think I kinda failed but the shading is there anyways lol. I also took the time to add shadows for the golden rods there. I’m sure I didn’t have to shade those rods (Idk what they’re called lol) as much as I did but anyways who cares lol I did it and I wasn’t going to delete my own work. I added little decorations in the places that connect to the sides of the window because otherwise I had a bothersome feeling that they looked like prison windows????
The sky gave me a bit of a struggle because the moon is supposed to be somewhere there and I had to decide what shades of blue to use because of the glow. Then I decided to sketch in some clouds and yeah.
Now, for the final part. A lot of the color I added can’t be seen very clearly because of the “beautiful” moonlit night effects I slapped on top of everything. I can confidently say that trying to figure out the hues and layer effects and opacity for it all took me almost as long as drawing the background. Anyways, for the effect, there’s four layers. One made everything blue to give the illusion of nighttime, another one has diffused blueish lighting, and another one has light on the borders to emphasize the parts that the moonlight is hitting directly. There’s one more layer I had to add because, as I mentioned before, the shadows I colored in the base weren’t dark enough. So there’s dark blue shadows to make the light pop out even more. It was tough to find out exactly how dark I wanted it to be. I don’t know if it looks okay lol. Well, when I finished it all, I realized I forgot to add the moonlight streaming through the windows. It took like a whole two hours bruh I am not kidding. There was a lot of erasing and layer-moving-around involved. I’m rather proud of the finish but I know it looks a little rough. The shadows that would be cast by the separation of the window bars aren’t as strong as I feel they should be. At least it kinda gives the idea of what the effect should look like. That’s good enough for a first time so yeah I left it like that. Besides, it was late and I was tired.
But if you ask me, I think I overdid it with the night light/shadows effects. It’s my first time trying something like this anyways so I guess I can learn from this experience.

Welp! If you want to see the version without effects, click here! It might look kind of plain but I thought it would be interesting if I posted it too.

And that’s all I have. I finished this piece for the love of art, because I mean I had something in mind and I just couldn’t stop until I had at least tried to show it. I mean the lighting lol. I was excited for that and I think it’s the most interesting part of the piece.

So, well, this is a long description I wrote lol. I’m sorry xD you don’t have to read it all, but I hope that at least you can enjoy the piece!

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IT'S SO CUTE MY HEART