I started watching The Witcher last Friday and now I'm halfway through its second season. It's undeniably hooking, and until now my mind is reeling with its lore and plot. What's more to that, is I like how the characters dress—especially Yennefer, because most of her dresses are stunning. I like how it made her more lovely, but there's one dress that somehow captured my interest, and it's the one she wore the time she first met Geralt. That scene started quite obscene, yet it became one of the memorable moments for me from the first season because that's where I first witnessed how Geralt (although he won't admit) really cares for his friend.
That's why I decided to attempt drawing her in that dress, and I really don't expect it would be good because these past months, I haven't drawn anything in my sketchbook. It's not that I didn't draw anything these days because I do—in receipts, scratch papers, and cutout bondpaper—but not on my sketchbook. I don't know but I'm quite afraid to draw on my sketchbook lately because I don't want to waste it...But I realized something while the phone's on low battery and my mother and her congregation are singing songs this noon: would it be more of a waste if I don't use it? That realization came out of nowhere, but I guess their singing and chants somehow knocked some sense into my head.
So I started to draw in late afternoon, and before I show you the result, let me share with you its process, first.
Let's start!
Materials Needed:
- Sketchbook (or anything you can draw on)
- Acrylic Paint (black and white)
- Mechanical Pencil
- Eraser
- Watercolor Pencils
- Liner Brush
The Process:
1. I sketched her and her dress from my memory.
2. Then I make a cleaner one with the reference.
3. After erasing the unnecessary details, I proceed to color it with acrylic paint.
4. I was about to add the final details when I noticed something from the reference. It has lines all across the dress. Supposedly, the lines are darker than the fabric of the dress, but since I had already colored the fabric darker, the damage was done.
5. So I find some ways to make those lines appear, and that's why I blend some black and white paint to make a darker shade of gray, and that's what I colored the lines so that they would somehow stand out from the darker dress.
No matter how I tried to capture—those lines aren't visible infront of my camera, but anyway I can clearly see them.
6. After I'm satisfied with it, I proceed to drawing her eyes, which was quite hard. Although I like drawing eyes, it's still hard to capture the defiant and fierce eyes of Yennefer.
7. Then, when I'm finished with her eyes, I added some final touches, then tadah! I'm done!
I would like to capture a more accurate expression of her eyes, but I'm afraid the paper won't endure further erasing.
I didn't expect that I would struggle much with acrylic paint. I don't know if it's just its unusual texture or it's just my craft rusting, but it felt off using it. Also, Yennefer's eyes became a challenge to me as well because I know how beautiful they are, and it would be an injustice if I didn't attempt to draw them well. Perhaps the only thing I enjoyed in the process was the sketching part. I wanted to just end the process when I started coloring because it feels so tedious and time-consuming.
It was worth it because it's looks decent, but I know I can do better. Yet I'm too lazy...and also I don't have a great inspiration as of this moment, but who knows, I might get one in the coming days... hopefully. Anyway, that would be all for today, everyone. Thanks for staying with me until here, and I hope to see you on my next artblog!
All of the pictures used were taken by yours truly, ridgette, and the first picture was edited in Canva.While the GIF was made in imageflip.