CGAN June 2022 - Fairy Queen - WIPs

Just tried to draw a hand without any reference.

It's not ... terrible, but....

Hands!

EDIT: Looks less terrible now. I think I'll stick with it.
*continues scribbling little fairies*

I never really use the crayon/pencils because of that grainy noise that never goes away. I find custom brushes are better if you don't want any of that kind of stuff and for the initial work on mine I used the Artistic/Square Canvas 5. It has nice edges and even though there's an initial grain it smoothly goes away as you build up the brush strokes.

And you're right, she does look a little sad. It's the lower eyelid on the right side that's creating that mood. If you wanted to change that I'd curve it down a little so that it doesn't cover so much of the iris but I think it's a good expression to have in this kind of picture.

Hand, Fairies and Foliage.

 

Might need to do something to unify the colours a bit more and then add some glowy bits too.