Hallöchen!

I hope some of you nice Steemians are interested in my digital art. :D Since I was in kindergarten, I did enjoy drawing. While my artistic journey started with drawing ugly Pokémon like a lunatic, I would later scrabble weird fanart of ridiculous anime characters. I guess this resembles the typical development of an artist. Everybody suffers looking at their old art works… However, recently I decided to work a bit on my dusted art skills and to draw more often. So I figured I could present you guys a work of mine and its progress! : ) I am using Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0, which is pretty outdated I guess since I used no other program for the last 8 years… ![Quinn9 Kopie.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcTndXfVGMiYTNCDt1dEQ4GMkZDnJPyvsitSJNSo6v5Kt/Quinn9%20Kopie.png) As references for my artworks, I usually look out for photos of fashion models, which give me an idea of realistic and interesting poses. Furthermore, my drawings concentrate on characters, which I made up sometime in the last 15 years and accordingly their designs may look very odd. :0 ![Quinn1.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYoEeqdj6J5Ey7FdVfGUdgWwUr8KvnmyKwxPEoPdgGvGR/Quinn1.png) My sketches always turn out to be a little bit confusing and scrawled, but here you can see a cleaned version. I also try to mark the shadows, which will be disregarded completely later on and everything will be shadowed as I feel like!.. ![Quinn2.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWEzeLAVrJm4ArRQRc2TXZSi1Bi4WnzxXmh4Ksc6kGivU/Quinn2.png) Since I tried to color this image in a kind of ‘realistic’ way, drawing line art was not necessary. I am also used to work with many layers. Therefore, I draw every object on a different layer and color them separately. I know this is frowned upon many artist, but I don’t know any better. ![Quinn3.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSu7ifbJVx2eopxgGFsNXtJJUGcZYGS9Rq5TSLXhYSc3P/Quinn3.png) There are many details, which I really look forward to working on. For example, in any other picture I would start with the eyes. As they can’t be seen this time, my concentration went to the sunglasses first. (I never drew shades in Photoshop before.) For the hair, I used by the way an [amazing brush](https://para-vine.deviantart.com/art/Hair-brush-set-145384302) I found on deviantart a long time ago. ![Quinn4.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmb4FYLKbtchoTdAcJVt9dTtTpXkxPJaDWS2wDg3h1hMFf/Quinn4.png) Every time I start a drawing I am like “damn, this will look awful” and although this feeling sticks around for a bit longer, it always surprises me how much more details you can work out with a proper shadowing. (Even if my shades are not always accurate and pretty rough.) ![Quinn7.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmetGeoxdKenLQTQEr5GvartCDkqGjVDS3QS7EKjzMS8di/Quinn7.png) In all those years I kind of specialized in drawing only humans. I will avoid doing proper backgrounds at any given time. Trust me. And although I am not so keen on drawing clothes, because they will always look a bit plastic in my art style, I enjoyed choosing the colors. In the past I did tend to only mix glaring colors together. Nowadays I try to pick them more carefully… ![Quinn8.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbZP5Z8VW7ZUURxHHMFHeTdDydbqPMC4vfHoSX8qasjzz/Quinn8.png) Well, here you can see the finished piece! As I am looking at it now, there could have been a bit more work done though. However, I guess it won’t come closer to the vision in my head for the time being. This will be a task for a later drawing… It took me about ten hours and I definitely had fun! Thank you for your visit and I hope you also enjoyed it! : )