Greetings, everyone!

When I struggle with my art, I often look around my old sketchbooks. This one, I found in one and I really liked it so I decided to share. I have some steps on this one too!

You might know from my old posts that I like roleplaying and roleplay-writing. This is not my character, no, but my writing partner @elwnyx 's character, Phonos. (She's great, go check her our <3 ) I've posted a picture of our characters together before, here. Yeah, that's him :D

When I drew this, we were writing their younger selves, still students in Hogwarts. Someone had put a paint bomb trap on the halls and he triggered it, hehe.

Progress

I rarely leave my art supplies at home when I go out. I take them almost anywhere. In this case, I took them to the... Beach. Yeah. I drew this in between my swimming times, haha. There was this small café where I settled back then, and I often sat there and drew. I miss doing that. No chance now.

Here's the first sketch. Pretty light, with colored ballpoint pen. I like sketching with ballpoints for some reason. They're pretty easy to carry around and work with out of home too.

Cleaned up and gave it a little more structure. Kind of like a lineart but more of a cleaner sketch.

I have NO idea for what reason, but I had a little pack of highlighters with me. Perfect for that pink paint splatter, eh? Please ignore my ugly sausage fingers there.

Some of the shades of pink ballpoints that I have. I might have a problem collecting colorful ballpoint pens. Just might.

Lined out the splatter paint with them.

Lined out the rest of him with other colored ballpoint pens. I think I have, like, 4 sets of those with variety of tones. I use a whole other pencilcase for them.

First layer of coloring finally with watercolors. I have this small set of Winsor&Newton's sets, which fits perfectly in that ballpoint pen case. A couple of water-filled pocket brushes and it's great for carrying around as you can see.

And finally, with a couple more layers of watercolors, it's finished.

I often struggle with drawing male characters. I liked how this one turned out.

Thank you for the support!

Have a nice weekend!