Lekka Meyren Posted February 16, 2015 Share #1 Posted February 16, 2015 EDIT: New additions on every page! -------------- Hello! I'm a designer who took it upon herself to learn illustration because I'd quite like to be able to write and draw my own comic books at some point. To this end I thought I'd start some rather simple and short little "Slice-of-life" comics surrounding my RP character; Lekka. I'll probably update this thread seemingly randomly, depending on when I have inspiration and time to make little doodlies; and it will be entirely ffxiv art, so I won't spam you with my other stuff. :moogle: Here's the first little piece of doodling, lekka in her "Guard" uniform over at AIM headquarters. (Oh and "Tsu" is my artist name) 1 Link to comment
Cliodhna Eoghan Posted February 17, 2015 Share #2 Posted February 17, 2015 ohhh i like how expressive you made the face! overall very nice, (and with pen even! 8D ) but i like the face the most x3 Link to comment
Lekka Meyren Posted February 18, 2015 Author Share #3 Posted February 18, 2015 Thank you! Faces are something of a specialty of mine, seems to be the part I get stuck on the longest and enjoy the most. I'm still doing some "research" into how I draw the pretty lady, Understanding her hairstyle in 3d is certainly a challenge, and even just how to represent her and stylize her features is a fun challenge. Here's the results from todays little study stream, one is more of a "comic" type style, as I was trying a full pose without reference (Bad idea) - And abandoned that, before going to more of a life drawing with reference. Link to comment
Branson Thorne Posted February 18, 2015 Share #4 Posted February 18, 2015 How long did it take you to reach this point? I'm new to the whole drawing scene myself and I'm having a lot of trouble. I can picture perfectly what I want to draw in my head, but head to paper does not translate well for me! Link to comment
Lekka Meyren Posted February 18, 2015 Author Share #5 Posted February 18, 2015 How long did it take you to reach this point? I'm new to the whole drawing scene myself and I'm having a lot of trouble. I can picture perfectly what I want to draw in my head, but head to paper does not translate well for me! Uhm. I'd say a year and a bit. Granted in that year I drew every single day of the year, so 365 terrible doodles or actual work on illustration or art. ( Also studies ) If you want some proof of this, and also quite the timeline of change; This is October 2013 - I was not drawing much back then. And this is January of 2014. I started drawing every day on the 1st of Jan Edit: You can flick through Archive by month in the bottom box along the right sidebar "The Archive". Link to comment
Rila Posted February 18, 2015 Share #6 Posted February 18, 2015 Ooh, fancy seeing you here! Lovely work. Link to comment
Branson Thorne Posted February 19, 2015 Share #7 Posted February 19, 2015 How long did it take you to reach this point? I'm new to the whole drawing scene myself and I'm having a lot of trouble. I can picture perfectly what I want to draw in my head, but head to paper does not translate well for me! Uhm. I'd say a year and a bit. Granted in that year I drew every single day of the year, so 365 terrible doodles or actual work on illustration or art. ( Also studies ) If you want some proof of this, and also quite the timeline of change; This is October 2013 - I was not drawing much back then. And this is January of 2014. I started drawing every day on the 1st of Jan Edit: You can flick through Archive by month in the bottom box along the right sidebar "The Archive". Your work looks awesome! I'd be happy to just draw some of your beginning work! 1 Link to comment
Lekka Meyren Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share #8 Posted February 19, 2015 Your work looks awesome! I'd be happy to just draw some of your beginning work! Honestly the only advice I can give you is to draw. Your work will look like shit for a long time, but you'll learn that it's a lot easier for you to see what's wrong as you improve. The process is in part just learning the actual mechanics of laying down lines and ink - And learning how to stylize or how to render something realistically. Like I don't even think I'm all that good right now, it's a constant struggle for improvement, and that never changes. What does change is your ability to do stuff though. And you have to put the time in. Link to comment
Lekka Meyren Posted February 21, 2015 Author Share #9 Posted February 21, 2015 Not entirely happy with this. I wanted to capture a scene where Lekka holds one of her would-be attackers off the ground in a chokehold... But with reference imagery being hard to find I had to try to work a lot from memory, and that always ends up with subpar results. Ah well. May finish it some other day. Link to comment
Lekka Meyren Posted February 25, 2015 Author Share #10 Posted February 25, 2015 I have influenza again, so I've been struggling to really have the focus to sit down and draw. But tonight I managed a little at least, started out as a head-pose study and ended up being a kinda younger version of Lekka? Teenage Lekka, if you will. Turned out kinda cute. Link to comment
Lekka Meyren Posted February 26, 2015 Author Share #11 Posted February 26, 2015 I -might- be recovering from the flu, or the ibuprofen finally kicked in. Either way I had the energy and patience to do a little homage to Akiri and Tia's wedding. Link to comment
little-patchy Posted February 26, 2015 Share #12 Posted February 26, 2015 I have influenza again, so I've been struggling to really have the focus to sit down and draw. But tonight I managed a little at least, started out as a head-pose study and ended up being a kinda younger version of Lekka? Teenage Lekka, if you will. Turned out kinda cute. So dedicated -- to be able to draw even with the flu :thumbsup:. That being said, hope you feel better! And, yes, she is cute! 1 Link to comment
Lekka Meyren Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share #13 Posted February 28, 2015 The furniture designers of Eorzea face a rather interesting challenge in their work. One which caused Lekka to endure some introspection recently. She came into a new establishment, and took a seat only to be instantly confounded by her place in this world. What was even happening here in this land of the lilliputt. Link to comment
MadWater Posted March 2, 2015 Share #14 Posted March 2, 2015 Hi Lekka! I like your arts! 1 Link to comment
Lekka Meyren Posted March 5, 2015 Author Share #15 Posted March 5, 2015 Hi Lekka! I like your arts! Thank you! At the moment I'm doing some more illustration style work, thought I could post this little gif I made of improving the sketch. Link to comment
Branson Thorne Posted March 5, 2015 Share #16 Posted March 5, 2015 Okay, the gif kind of got me pretty job. I checked your topic, scrolled down to see what you added and glanced away for a second..... "Wait, what was that.....?" "Did her head just move"? *stares at figure* "Is that just my imagination?" "Oh it's a gif, thank god, thought I was going crazy!" Link to comment
Lekka Meyren Posted March 6, 2015 Author Share #17 Posted March 6, 2015 Haha! Yeah I think maybe I made it a tiny bit too long-lasting. But I wanted to show off the difference in a single image rather than side-by-side. It's always a little funny when a Gif trolls you though. Link to comment
Lekka Meyren Posted March 9, 2015 Author Share #18 Posted March 9, 2015 Funny to look back at the first little portrait I did of Lekka now, the change is quite big! But that's why I wanted to spend some serious time studying how to draw her; because subtleties are hard you guys. Link to comment
Lekka Meyren Posted March 17, 2015 Author Share #19 Posted March 17, 2015 Finished lineart for the Lekka piece: Drew S'hayla. (In flailing painterly) Drew Ihrie(Work doodle) And drew an RPC forum member from the Thread of reference: Link to comment
Lekka Meyren Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share #20 Posted March 25, 2015 Another little update! Two doodles and some progress on the illustration work; excuse my noob painting skills. In other news I've started on the comic project surrounding Lekka, and hope to get that done within a few months. Link to comment
Kyatai Posted April 1, 2015 Share #21 Posted April 1, 2015 Great job and really awesome dedication!!! I keep on buying art things to return to/practice my art... but never seem to have (make?) the time. I really should... there was a time I was rather good in several different formats... Thank you for your inspiration! (and the arts ♥:love:♥:love:♥) Link to comment
Lekka Meyren Posted April 1, 2015 Author Share #22 Posted April 1, 2015 Great job and really awesome dedication!!! I keep on buying art things to return to/practice my art... but never seem to have (make?) the time. I really should... there was a time I was rather good in several different formats... Thank you for your inspiration! (and the arts ♥:love:♥:love:♥) Thanks for the compliments! I think overbearingly the best compliments I get are the ones from others who feel inspired to work more. It is so hard and it takes a lot of active effort; But when you let others inspire you and share your own art in return, it does get easier! :moogle: I guess it's that aspect of feeling like your art had some purpose beyond blind practice. Hope you can get back to it if you really want to. Oh, and here's another little doodle I initially only put on Twitter. Link to comment
Lekka Meyren Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share #23 Posted April 3, 2015 More updates! Recently got my hands on a Companion2, so I started doing more doodling while mobile and wanted to test what it could handle. Thus I worked on the illustration some more, as well as some random doodlies. (non-ref doodles, that's why they're a bit odd.) Link to comment
Lekka Meyren Posted April 6, 2015 Author Share #24 Posted April 6, 2015 Lekka was in her PLD gear, and was looking handsomely knightly, so I thought I might as well.. Link to comment
Lekka Meyren Posted April 12, 2015 Author Share #25 Posted April 12, 2015 More artwork! This batch includes two studies of lekka, and an attempt at drawing a friends character; E'lari in a slightly different style. The chief difference is how I work; on the E'lari piece I did a sketch and then drew final lines atop that immediately. Normally I merely develop a sketch on a single layer until I am happy with it. Link to comment
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