FINAL SKETCH FOR NOW

Sunday, May 22, 2011 12:24:00 PM

Phew! Just finished the last of my series of Firefly portraits. They started out as a test after I read the comic "Serenity - Those Left Behind". I wasn't very impressed with the graphics or the way it was told to be honest and wanted to see how hard it was to draw the characters myself. So I started by tracing some photographs and realized that it was much harder to make the characters look like themselves than I thought it would be. It was impossible with just outlines - I needed some kind of shading to get them look somewhat ok. And yes I know, traced sketches is a big no no in some artistic circles but for me it's a start and a good way of getting to know the faces of the characters Firefly. After some intial tests I started to have fun. A lot of fun actually. Thank you all for having patience with me and my sketches - it's been a great ride :)