Tyson + Ella

So it's Tyson and Ella ship week (or it was when I started) so I drew the love half bird and Cyclopes in a tree on the beach.

Camp Jupiter is in California I figured they should go to the beach at least once. In the tree is Ella's stash of books and in the background is percy being supportive from a distance while riding a dolphin (my cousin's idea). The shading is not my best work, but I did what I could with a mechanical pencil that was recently covered in candle wax somehow. And here is a close up just in case. 

Tell me what you think in the comments as well as any requests. My plan is to do all or most of the Percy Jackson ship weeks but I have camp next week so we'll see how that turns out. Sorry I didn't post on Friday I had a family barbecue I had to attend, I'll try to get more on that. See ya next time! :D :P

The Winter Soldier

Last weekend I saw Captain America the Winter Soldier and was inspired to draw the villain. I apologize in advance because I'm going to rant about this for a minute. So I don't know why but I always love the bad people in marvel movies and shows because for some reason they aren't fully bad. Except red skull but he's a whole different deal. Ok beware spoilers from this point on!!!! So the winter soldier is Bucky and I knew that from the second the title of the movie was released and I know that because I'm a total nerd and have watched the first season of the Avengers TV show. And I know that the next Avengers movie is going to be about Ultron who Iron man and Ant man build who is supposedly indestructible. Can't wait to see how that turns out because in the show it got really annoying towards the end. Sorry got a little carried away. So any way here is the Winter Soldier.

And I believe it is time for an update on what I am watching. So it is now up to the second season of Black Butler, Attack on Titan about half way through the fist season, and I just started Arrow which is way better than I thought it was going to be. However I could really do without the narratives he does. 

Please leave a request below and check out this cool blog of a friend of mines. She is totally awesome and posts fantastic stuff! Go and see for yourself! 

Guardians of Childhood + Bonus Drawing

Well, as you know I am pretty obsessed with Rise of the Guardians. So of course me being the nerd I am read all of the books that it was based off of. And yes it is directed toward a slightly younger audience but I think the author still has some amazing ideas. And some of the content in them doesn't seem like its intended for them. I don't know it's confusing. Well any way our dear William Joyce decided to end his last Guardians of Childhood book with Nightlight kissing Kathrine in order to wake her up from her eternal nightmare that Pitch was kind enough to give her. But thats not all, apparently because of this nightlight looses his boyhood which is what makes him who he is. And I don't know whats going to happen to him and its bugging me. 

Well heres my theory, the other guardians are going to find a way to save him and he is somehow going to become Jack Frost. He has to one way or another, ever since book one they have almost the same exact personality and everything. And might I also add in that in the note at the end of the third book he mentions Jackson Overland Frost coming in. And guess what. He didn't. Needless to say I was upset with his empty promise. So I'm really hoping he is going to come in the next book. 

Sorry for that rant. Here I'll make it up to you with a picture of when Nightlight kissed Kathrine. I just thought it was adorable and wanted to draw it. I gave him Jack's hair from ROTG because as mention before I think they either are or are going to be the same person. 

And also here is a bonus drawing of what I might submit to the arts program thing. I forgot what it was called. Well anyway, it is not finished yet. This is just a really detailed sketch I had of what I wanted to do. Can you guess what's going on?

I apologize, I can't seem to get the picture to fit in the space provided. So if you would be so kind as to ignore it that would be just dandy. :P I'll figure out how to fix it eventually, maybe, hopefully.

Oh and by the way, I would love it if you guys would give me some drawing suggestions or even challenges. I'm running out of ideas here guys! Not really but shhh. If you don't want your comment to be posted on a picture you can add that in there and I wont publish it. Sound good? Good. Maybe i'll post something in the middle of the week next time if I have a really good drawing that I want to share. And i'll talk to you guys soon! :D

And for fun here is a Mark Crilley link for how to draw people kissing

Chibi avengers

So as promised here are the chibi avengers, they still aren't as good as I wanted them to be but I was really rushed. Just ignore Captain America on the bottom. My favorite avenger would probably be either Thor or Captain America, I have brought him shame. :( But aside from strictly avengers my favorite character is tied between Loki and Spiderman. However I only like Loki in the newer movies, and I like Spiderman in every version I've seen so far. And for wolverine same thing as Loki, I think he is okay in the few episodes I've seen with him but with the movies with Hugh Jackman oh my god there are no words!! And sorry if you can see the guidlines, as I said before I was kind of in a rush to finish this. 

As always let me know what you think and tell me what you think I should draw next!  Who knows maybe next week I'll post some Jack frost!!!! I kind of got became re-obssesed with Rise of the Guardians again sooooo.... yeah. Don't judge me. :) Also for the chibi Loki in the top left corner I found it on a website that can teach you how to draw step by step. Its really easy to follow, you should check it out here. 

Grell, How to Shade

So this post is going to be specifically on how to shade. I'm not sure if I mentioned this before or not, but I have started watching Black Butler and it is fantastic! However it is also really creepy. So anyway when I was in class today I randomly thought of that show and so I searched up a picture to draw and then I saw one of Grell and so I thought, hey I've drawn Sebastian and Ciel quite a few times, so why not Grell. And so I decided to also make it a blog post of mine.

Credit to: ensacarmexico.com

So here is the picture I am going to be drawing, I apologize its backwards, my computer was being weird and didn't want to flip the picture around. Also I had to kind of improv the top of his hair cuz you can't see it.

So here is the outline that I had and this is what we are going to start with today.

So the first thing I do is shade all of the hair the lightest tone that there is, not including the highlight.

So to get the highlight what I do it take an eraser and treat it like a pencil and "draw" in the highlight. I also rubbed the side of the eraser to make it have a pointier edge so that the line wasn't too thick. Then I added some shadow in the hair. The shadow can be found under the spikes of hair and the hair behind his neck. 

Finally we add the facial shading. There is some under his nose, right at his jaw line and where his eyelids and eyebrows are. And don't forget under the hair as well. 

Well I hope this helped you guys, please if you have any suggestions please post a comment below, I have a request for chibi Avengers right now and I will hopefully have that done for next week. Would you guys want it to be another how to draw post? Let me know! I hope you guys had a wonderful week and that next week doesn't suck too much for you. See you next time :D

Jack Frost

I don't know why but I had the urge to draw Jack Frost for some reason. And I am really proud of this because I used absolutely no references and it doesn't look half bad! :D  Sadly I didn't have enough room on my paper to draw all of his head but I'm really proud of the rest of it. 

And to keep you up to date on the fandoms I'm in at the moment, I just recently got into Supernatural and Doctor Who. My friend showed them to me and I got hooked. And since I now have Netflix I cannot stop watching no mater how hard I try. I also find that I always feel like something is behind me. And I kinda got this idea for either a short story or an inspirational quote about it or something. I don't know though, writing it down now it seems kinda stupid. But either way I am absolutely obsessed with David Tenant and Jensen Ackles. And anime wise I have fallen in love with Black Butler. I don't know whats up with me and scary shows nowadays. I dunno maybe its one of those "Teenage Phases" you go through. Oh dear god please tell me its not! D: Well any way I'm running out of ideas of things to draw, can you give me some? Post in the comments below! Oh and by the way I will now be posting at least one thing a week just so you know. Hope you like my blog!

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Raven's Gate

So, as I said before I will have the occasional book review. Now here is my first for this blog! So my brother somehow got me to read this book called Raven's gate. It's a really interesting book about powers and evil magical people and things.... Lots of death and destruction which is always good and lots of other fun stuff. So I guess I should say what actually happens in the book. Well, its about a kid named Mathew Freeman and his parents died when he was six or around that age. Ever since then he lived with his mothers step sister who never really talked to their family. Well anyway she is a terrible parent and being with her made Matt do all kinds of bad things like skipping school and shop lifting and stuff like that. But then it went really wrong when he and his "friend" go out to steal DVDs I think it was. Well it doesn't go as planned and his friend ends up stabbing a guard there. Matt gets blamed and is given the choice between a foster program called the LEAF project for delinquents or jail. And let me just say when you read the blurb it says "he should have chosen jail" at first your like, psh yeah right, how can a fostering program be worse than jail? But then you finish it and you'll be like "Holy crap what is wrong with these people! Jail would have been nothing compared to this!!!!" So the women he gets fostered too is slightly off her nut. She works him tirelessly everyday and is supposed to send him to school but doesn't. When the director in charge of the LEAF goes to report her he dies in a car explosion on the highway. Huh, now how did THAT happen? *whispers* conspiracy. So a different guy tries to help him and says, meet me at my house and i'll explain everything. So he goes the next morning and finds him dead and brutally murdered and in green paint written on the wall it says RAVENS GATE. Very creepy indeed. So he tries to run away in search of what Raven's gate is and everyone who helps him dies and there is obviously some magic stuff happening. One last person comes to his aid and they go on this mini quest to find out what it is. Once they find out many more people are out to kill them both and well, you'll just have to read the book to find out the rest. 

And because I really liked this book I drew the main character in my own style but how he is described in the second book. (Yes that is a scar on his cheek) So here he is in his little school uniform and long hair. I'm really happy because I feel like i've really gotten down how to draw guys hair which is something i've struggled with for a while. So Yey! If you have request for an anime/cartoon character you want to be drawn post in the comments and let me know! :D

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Jack Frost and his past

I love Jacks back story so much it's not even funny. He is so adorable and protective of his sister I love it!!!!

Marceline the Vampire Queen

Here is one of my favorite characters from adventure time, Marceline!!! From the request in this post. I got the idea from a picture I found on the inter web here. More to come hopefully, tell me what you think! :)

Jack Frost and hot chocolate

So it's been snowing here for a while and since it is super freezing outside I decided to make hot chocolate and I was inspired to draw this! Taa daa!! 

I love Jack Frost so much I'm sure my friends get annoyed with me about it. They think I like him just because he's cute but I actually like him for his background story and the trials he goes through. I mean he wants more than anything to reach out to children and to help bring joy and fun. But it's kinda hard to do when no one can see or touch you. Not to mention he doesn't remember any of his life before he was "Jack Frost". So when he finds out that he had a life before this he goes on a quest for his baby teeth which hold his memories. Unfortunately a man named Pitch Black (aka the Boogy Man) steels all of the teeth from the Tooth Fairies Palace (and now it is sounding like a really stupid kids movie but its not I swear). So anyway when he does find them he looses the trust of the other magical creature and the cost of one of their lives (I won't tell you who as to keep you interested). When he does find his memories he figures out that he had an entire family and a little sister who he saved from falling in a lake that they were ice skating on, and this happened at the time when if you knew how to swim you were accused of being a witch and they killed you so you can see why this was a problem. So Jack saves her but falls in trying. The man in the moon sees his potential I guess and brings him back to life and makes him a magical creature. I just love characters that have tragic backstories for some reason. I feel like it gives them more character so Jack Frost is one of my many favorite characters. Hope you like my drawing! :)

Watch this if you want to see him and a little preview of the movie

Shaded Alphonse

I've never drawn Al in his armour and shaded so I decided to give it a shot. :) and of course he must have his kitties!

Mushroom Fairy

Here is a fairy sitting on a mushroom. I wanted to try out this new stance I found in my how to draw figure book I got for my b-day. 

Annabeth Chase

Annabeth is a character from Percy Jackson. She is the daughter of Athena and super smart (which is kinda a given). She and Percy have known each other since the first book and she is the first person he meets who is a demigod at camp half-blood. And the first thing she ever says to him is when he wakes up from being knocked out for two days is "You drool in your sleep." The beginning of a great romance.

I found another one of Viria's drawings and fell in love and had to draw it! This isn't typically what she looks like. Viria wanted to make Annabeth look more girly and this is one of the drawings she came up with.

I am not going to draw the arm or the word Chase (her last name) and I will recreate the rest of the hair on my own.

As always I start with the eyes. Because we are aiming for more "girly" they will be more pointed on the edges and also thicker. Probably because of all that mascara girls are cursed to wear. 

Next I will draw the nose and her eyebrows. In Viria's drawing I think Annabeth is giving Percy that weird eyebrow thing. Later on I will change the eyebrows so they don't look like that. 

Now I will draw her face. 

Now here are the first few lines of her hair and her lips. I am going to say in advance I love how wavy her hair is!!!

Here is the rest of the hair that was shown in the picture. From here on I am drawing it on my own with the exception of here eyes.

 So here is my attempt at finishing her hair and drawing here irises.

Here I shaded in the eyes. Some tips, find the highlight and draw a circle around it as to not shade it accidentally. The outline her pupil and shade the entire iris the lightest color and then go back and shade in the darker areas.

And finally finishing the shading in her hair and shirt. (Yes I gave her an owl necklace, there is nothing wrong with that) 

Hope you enjoyed this How to Draw session or whatever you would call it. Comment what you think I should draw next! :)

Fullmetal alchemist Collage Because Reasons

Yeah I still can't get it out of my system. I apologize that Alphonse looks like he has football marks on his face. Mi dispiace. :( I'll probably repost this when I get home cuz there I have a better quality camera.

Chibi Crying

During Spanish we took our final exam and we were allowed to draw. So I drew this.

Thanks to Mark Crilley

Because I Love Alphonse

I drew this because I needed to get some Al out of my system. I didn't work too well. Anyway, I'm really proud of this because I drew it without looking at a picture like I usually do!! So I just finished Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and I'M DYING INSIDE!!!!!! Oh my goodness it was AMAZING! Yeah... I've been fangirling about it for the past couple of days now. I'm fine I swear... maybe.

So in art class today (technically over the past few weeks) we have been doing drawings of people giving off an emotion. I decided to draw these two people kissing just cuz at the time I felt like I finally understood how to draw it and I decided, hey, why not post it on my blog! So this is what happened, tell me what you think or if you have any ideas of what I should draw next :)

Alphonse Elric, How to Draw

I have not so recently gotten into this anime series called Fullmetal Alchemist. It is an amazing show about these two little boys who loose their mother to a disease and try to bring her back to life using alchemy. Which is the ultimate taboo for alchemists. "Alchemy is the art of deconstructing and reconstructing matter, in order to obtain something something of equal value must be lost. Therefore human transmutation is a taboo among all alchemists. For what could equal the value of a human soul." as said in the intro episode. Needless to say they failed and created this monster and in doing so the older brother Edward (Ed) lost his leg, and the younger brother Alphonse (Al) lost his entire body. In trying to bring his brother back Ed bonded Al's soul to a suit of armor costing him his arm. After this tragedy Ed gets automail for an arm and leg so he can walk again. His plan is to join the military in order to get restricted information in hopes of getting their original bodies back. If you have any interest in watching this show click here. Trust me, you'll be glad you did. ;)

Now I feel like Al doesn't get enough credit in this show at points so I'm only going to do the tutorial on him. This is a picture of them before they lost their bodies. Here is the picture I drew.

So as always I start with the eye's shape, but what I did differently this time was add the mouth before I added the face outline. I did this because his face is just easier to draw if you can relate it distance wise to something else. Later on if you think the face looks too long, bring up the mouth and nose and then re draw the chin. 

Now I added the eyebrows, teeth and tung. Notice the eyebrows and eyes have lines next to them. Those are meant to help create emotion. Like in this picture he is scared/shocked because his brother is about to get him in a choke hold. Naturally. 

Now I add the face line, ears, and the hairline. Notice how his hair is spiky and goes off to one side. BE CAREFUL!!! His hair is VERY hard to draw! It took me like 4 tries till it didn't look like he was being electrocuted!!!! So don't beat yourself up if it doesn't look perfect the first time.

At this point I'm going to do the clothing in pieces so it's not so overwhelming. Here I drew just the top of the arm sleeve. Here it is very important that you look at the picture to help you with drawing the clothing. 

Now I'm drawing the collar and the side of his shirt and a little of the bottom. Remember that the shirt is blowing in the wind all dramatic like, so if it looks a little strange to you just let it be till you finish the outline. If it still looks weird then go back a fix it. 

Next I'm drawing the rest of his shirt, his other arm, and his brothers arm. 

Time for Al's close up! I zoomed in so you could see the shading I did in his eyes. You do not outline the entire iris because of the shine, so just leave it white. 

Now for the final steps, I will shade in his shirt and undershirt one solid color, then I will add in the shading. I know its hard when the picture is not black and white to shade, but a tip is to see if one color is darker than the other so that they don't look like they are part of the same thing. 

Finally, the rest of the shading. Usually the darker parts of the cloth occur around the crease lines, just remember that. Also I added the shine in Al's hair. All I did was erase a little on the top and sides. (Sorry, it's kinda hard to see in this picture). 

Now since this picture was all about Alphonse I decided only to do the tutorial on him. But since the drawing looked strange with a random arm around him, I decided to do Ed as well. I hope this helped! And if you want to see one of your favorite characters as a drawing, feel free to leave a comment below :D :P 

How I Draw Step by Step

In this post I'm going to show you the steps I go through whenever I draw a picture. Today I'm going to draw one of Viria's drawings of Percy Jackson. She does amazing art, go check her out!
Here is the drawing I'm going to attempt to draw.

So first off I always start with the eyes and just the bridge of the nose. A helpful tip, the eyes always line up with each other.

Next I add the iris of the eyes, the eyebrows and the rest of the nose. I typically don't add the pupils till I'm nearly done because then you can see where it makes more sense for him to look. Note: in this drawing he has a sad expression so you want to have the edge of the eyebrows closest to the nose tilted upward slightly. 

Now I'm going to add the side of his face outline. 

Now here I add the hair line, mouth, and ears. Notice that tiny dashes of hair cover the ear slightly. As you can see the jaw looks slightly strange now, I changed it a little bit as I was drawing and developing the picture later on, but if you like it you don't have to change it. 

Before I add the top of the hair I am going to start on the arm and neck. Some tips: the sleeve of his shirt starts at his cheek bone and goes up from there. The neck of his shirt covers the right side of his neck so you don't have to draw that. And lastly the neck starts right next to the jaw line on the left side. You can use the picture at the top for reference if you wish.

Now I'm going to draw the top of his hair, if your having trouble think of his hair as waves. He is the son of Poseidon after all.

Here I zoomed in on the eyes so you can see the shading I did on the iris and pupils. This time I did not add a shine in his eyes because I didn't want this post to be more complicated than it probably already is.

I felt like the hair needed a few more lines at the top so I added them in if your wondering what I changed. I also shaded in his hair. Just a tip, try to shade from an origin. I used the part of his hair where it changes from waving one way to the other, if that makes any sense at all.

And finally I shade in his CHB tee-shirt. If you want to you can add more lights and darks, but I decided to leave it as it is for now.

Hope this helped and remember, if you have a character you would like me to draw please leave a comment on one of my posts and I'll do my best to draw it! Bye