An Attempt To Make A Fan Art

This is really for an anime fan art contest, but unfortunately, I didn’t finish this Ah! My Goddess character Urd on time because of school matters. So yep, this is why I was left with a semi-done painting of her face. Tsk tsk.

Anyways, according to the contest’s rules the contestants should only use traditional media on paper or board so I used acrylics, color pencils and india ink on a 1/8 illustration board.

Here’s the sketch, my own fan art intrepretation of the character, Urd. This is what Urd originally looks like in the anime series. At this stage, I’m also priming the board with gesso (because I forgot to prime it before I drew! My bad!)

I’m now using waterproof drawing ink for the first layer of background color because I don’t like to waste my black acrylic paint. Myeah.

Painting the first colors and painting the face first so I’ll know what colors to use for the rest of the body.

Painting using acrylic paints is a challenge because you have to work very fast for the duration of their workability are generally short. In other words, they dry too fast making blending so so hard! Pfft.

So I keep on layering and layering more paint to blend the face’s colors right. Also putting additional gesso on the hair.

Here is my makeshift Stay-moist palette with the paints I’m using for the skin. Acrylic paints also dry too fast on normal palettes so I make my own moisture retaining palette. It just helps in making my acrylics stay moist and usable longer.

I use color pencils for additional textures and shading. Aaaand this one’s what I have so far. I do hope I could finish this when I have time again though. Ohwell.

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