Playing around with transparency. I guess its loosely based on a strange fascination i have with cigarette smoke and the way it creates a wavey stringey texture before disappearing into the air.

wow lol well this is half-assed will delete later

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Inspired by Remioromen's "Chime"

Sketch of my emo character NME. And yes, as the title says, he doesn't like dashboard. XD

I'm leaving it in the sketch stage because my tablet's being gay and I'm too busy enjoying instant messaging XD

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I'm was experimenting the oekaki thingy... <.>
This is my character Naiixes. I had fun with the hair, the rest, well I began to get tired, I sort of experiment different things with oekaki since it's been awhile since i did an oekaki...

Hands are hard to do X__X

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Happy birthday to moi!

I hope maiko joins

After doing my last picture here which was a very mechanical attempt to achieve photorealism where my only aim way to copy the photo, I wanted to go in the opposite direction, getting back more to what I was trying to do in the intermediate boards, instead attempting the loosest attempt to draw from a reference yet, with an attempt to only use the reference without drawing the reference at all. Accuracy to the photo is not going to be a criteria in this case. It's going to be about speed, looseness, and improvisation. I just finished a lot of work, so hopefully I'll have the time to focus on something challenging.

I'm going to try to combine what I've learned from both my practice in drawing with references and inventing forms without references to make something that hopefully doesn't suck too much and doesn't require too much time spent on it (hopefully something I finish by the end of the day). By using a reference, I'm hoping the result will be more convincing and anatomically correct than some of my doodles on this board where I didn't use any references at all. By not drawing the reference directly, the end result will hopefully be something fairly different than the photo and interesting on its own. Most importantly, I'm hoping it will be a useful exercise that will help me get better.

Reference: http://hq55.com/scan/willemdafoe/01.jpg. After cropping out the text on the left, I decided to flip him horizontally. I just liked it better that way after removing all the space on the left. I don't know why I liked it better - I'm not a composition expert, but I liked the initial focus to be on the left flowing towards the right, and having the brighter portion of the face on the left seemed to do that more.

I don't really know what I'm going to end up with. I have a fantasy theme in mind: maybe a warrior or a priest or something.