Stop That Shota!

Hello. Unsure how to start this...I do own about one or two other blogs, but they are more for personal stuff. I never have blogged about my "Artwork," but anyways I thought this is a good time in my life to really start recording how I improve in Traditional/Digital Art. I say Traditional and Digital because I love drawing and designing pieces in various programs. This ranges from Anime drawings to Typography. This blog is to record my improvement in all directions. Enjoy?~


I recently decided to draw something random in Sai. Sai is a program that is incredibly amazing for tablet owners, I like it  more than photoshop when it comes to sketching because it's pressure control of the pen is a lot smoother in my opinion.

I was really happy with the overall sketch, however there is one big problem. This was originally suppose to be a chick, however halfway through the sketch I noticed it looked more male and the shoulders were too broad. At this point, my laziness overcame me and I was like screw it! I love shotas anyway! However, a problem I was having before was drawing exactly what I imagined in my head. This time around aside from the gender confusion, I drew exactly what I thought of! Also, I am also getting more use to the anatomy of the body. (maybe because I took an anatomy class? O_o)
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I am not really use to coloring in Sai because I have always colored in photoshop. However, some fellow IRC users always told me they loved coloring in Sai, thus I decided to try it. Shading has always been my enemy, I do not know what's wrong with me, but I can never shade right... In this piece I think the shading came out pretty decent. Once I shaded the hair, the shirt and pants came pretty easy to do. Overall, I really loved coloring in Sai (more than photoshop actually...)

Once I was done coloring the dude (aside from the eye), I decided to bring it into photoshop. I am not too sure what was wrong with me, but I really did mess up on the eye. At first it was too big in the sketch so I made it smaller in photoshop, however something is still off...

Anways, the Shota is saying "Stop!" because he is an Uke and all Ukes need some Uke punch line. There is no deep meaning to this, but if you can think of one...well that's nice.Overall, I am not too proud of this piece because it looks off~

I'll make a list of things I am looking to improve on next time:

1. Eyes! Make it the right proportion!  Color it better too ;_;
2. Hands! It took me forever to do the hands on the Shota, I hate hands! I need to get better...
3. Solid Lines! The lines on shota are alot smoother than how I usually draw, but I want it to be even more smooth
4. BG! yeah as you can see I cheated by doing a fancy little background, I want to draw actual backgrounds next time...

Also, do not expect all my posts to be this long. I am a very lazy person.