One fanart pencil drawing a week

Since the end of last year, I’ve started making pencil drawings again. Quick things, mostly, at first. But then I started to make a few quick portraits of characters of the Spanish telenovella I was watching Sueños De Libertad. Now, drawing faces is something I've struggled with for quite some time. I became better at it when studying the Loomis method some time ago, but still. It was always a hit or miss. And so were the first fan portraits I made of these characters last year. However, I started doing them more regularly, and they became better. I decided to post them online in the fandom of this telenovela. The first ones were not particularly good, but I started getting better. I saw other fan artists doing weekly drawings, posted on Saturday or Sunday, and I decided to join in. For some three months now I’ve been making a weekly fan drawing. Today I finished and posted this one:




All the drawings are posted on Twitter as well as on my fan art Instagram account.

I usually search/make a screenshot I like of this couple and try to make a nice black and white pencil drawing of it. Doing this weekly for three months has permitted me to improve my pencil skills and given me an insight into how many hours a drawing like this takes to complete. Both are valuable. At the moment, I’m seeing this fan work as a place in which I can make decisions on how I want to improve/ grow. In that regard, I’d like to do two things. I’d like to try to make such portraits in acrylic. I’ve already done one in black and white last year, and it turned out well. Another way I wish to take this, is that I want to be able to construct scenes of my own with these characters, instead of only relying on a screenshot. I’ve seen fan artists do this. They construct a pose with a setting for a couple they like, then use corresponding pictures/screenshots of the character’s faces to be able to draw them with a good likeness. This takes considerable skill, and I’m going to have to practise and learn a lot to be able to do this.

Name five characters from five different fandoms that you like

Three weeks for Dreamwidth: Name five characters from five different fandoms that you like

Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Voyager)

An intriguing character who joined Star Trek: Voyager mid-show. She’s a rescued Borg, whose journey to individuality continues throughout the remaining Star Trek: Voyager seasons. She’s reintroduced in Star Trek: Picard, where you find out what happened to her after Voyager came home. She’s strong, extremely intelligent, and charismatic. I loved her journey in Voyager and the backstory they gave her in Picard. I wish they did some more with her in that series, however, though I like how they ended the series for her.

Morrigan (Dragon Age: Origins)

The 'witch of the wild’, as she is called. She’s beautiful, powerful, and lovely sarcastic towards her companions throughout the whole story. I loved her character so much while playing the game. I know she’s also featured in other Dragon Age titles, but I haven’t come across her yet. I’ve only completed Dragon Age: Origins, and played just a part of DA2.

Sara Lance (Legends of Tomorrow, Arrow)

She almost drowned when a yacht she was on sank, but was picked up by members of the League of Assassins to become one of them. She cheated death several times, and had a great story arc in Arrow, and also -partly, in my opinion - in Legends of Tomorrow. I say partly because a lot of her character is left unexplored in the later seasons and they made a weird decision in season six that I really hated ( Spoiler )

Alti (Xena: Warrior Princess)

I wanted to include a character from Xena that was not one of the leading ladies and I was hesitating between Callisto and Alti. Both are great villains, Callisto’s psychology and past are better explained than Alti’s, but in the end I choose Alti because I just loved the character when I was young and watched the series for the first time. Alti is an evil shaman: alluring, ruthless, power-driven, and wants to pull Xena to the dark side. But she’s also very charismatic, thanks to the wonderful interpretation by Claire Stansfield. I loved every scene with her in it.

Éowyn (The Lord of the Rings)

One of the few powerful female characters in the Lord of the Rings saga. She wants to escape the life she has, but finds herself blocked from possibilities again and again, till she dresses up as a soldier and takes matters into her own hands and goes away to fight the war. She also suffers from her unrequited love for Aragorn, which is a sad part of her story. I read the books, and in that, she was described as someone who grew older with life passing her by, and was surrounded by an air of sadness. Though her story ends more happily in the books.