Art for others

I love drawing for other people, and I love putting my own style on characters that aren't my own. It's a refreshing challenge, and it always pushes me to do well because I don't want to disappoint or hand over bad art. I think it's also good practice for when I will hopefully get into the concept art industry, because I'll need to be able to draw other characters and styles efficiently and quickly.

This first piece is gift art for my lovely friend Zoie, of her fantastic character Eduardo. I wanted to draw a portrait with emotion, and I was quite happy with the out come of this one.


This second piece was a trade over on deviantart with a lovely artist called Goosechimera. It took me a long time to finish this one, mainly because I think it's only know that I've really got into the swing of things with Photoshop. I remember really struggling with the colouring on this, primarily I think because I tried following a tutorial. Tutorials are great, and I love seeing other artist's techniques and process, but I found it very unnatural to apply it to my own art.


Saying that, I did learn important things from it, namely about how to push your tones and values.