N A M I

[EDIT] drawing edited. added some more shading. [/EDIT]

made this today.





coloring still sucks. this one's even worse not because it takes LONGER to color it, but the piece of paper i was using was crappy and the pencil leads were acting weird. well, maybe it's just my stupidity for not knowing this, but i noticed that 2B on top of 2H don't stick to each other. the 2B ends up being crumbly and shit like the shade on the left of nami's skirt. nami's left. not your left.

shading is crappy. reason for this is mainly because i drew smaller. the sanji portrait used up the whole entire 8.5x11 piece of paper; only for the head, but this one, i used the same size paper to draw from head to thighs, thus giving me smaller workspace and i cannot work on the details. i'll try to draw nami portrait later.

finally, i drew a GIRL. i've always been making excuses that i cannot draw a girl; one main reason is because everytime i draw one, she looks like a man. and that's just not right. but here's another thing i've never said to anyone: i have some kind of a phobia when drawing boobs. not that i have problem with boobs, i've seen boobs in movies, and i've seen lots of movies with boobs, especially after rooming with sam for a year. seeing boobs is fine, DRAWING boobs is another story. see, for artists, boobs and female curves are like art. there's beauty in them. not the dirty kind of beauty, but the beauty kind of beauty. huh? if you don't get what i'm trying to say, don't worry, i don't either. when i draw boobs, i want to draw boobs that can radiate beauty; ones that when people see it they go "wow, that's nice boobs." but everytime i attempt to draw boobs, they seem to be radiating dirtiness instead. i watch hentai but i don't wanna be making one.

hell, even some hentai girls have non-dirty-looking boobs. i need to practice drawing more boobs.

wow, that's a lot of "boobs" in one paragraph. i'll use "rack" next time. or "hooters"