Hello, fellow Balto fans
I've finally seen Balto several days ago and I'm absolutely amazed. Having found this website, I've also become inspired to try my hand in drawing Balto's universe's characters. Of course, my main target is my favorite character from the whole series, Aleu, but to avoid messing her up from the beginning I've decided to start with some other characters and get used to drawing a bit. After all, the last time I've drawn something just because I wanted was four or five years ago
I like original ways of reaching a set target, so I started from finding a reference picture through Google:
Next thing to do was re-draw the character in Flash to get to know his basic shapes...
When that was ready, i couldn't help myself but fill the lines with colors
Then, I've printed the outline and started the real learning - first finding some old pencils
I've found one automatic, one B3 and one H, but I've never liked the last one
In the sketches below I've mostly used the automatic one, B3 came in handy only when I went into shading some areas
The first and biggest sketch was made by simply putting a piece of paper on the printed picture, redrawing the lines that I've drawn red on a copy and proceeding with filling the details with reference to the base outline. Then I've tried to do the same, only this time with the basic shapes drawn by myself. The result is poor. as seen in the upper right corner of the first image. Nonetheless, I kept trying, focusing mostly on the head, being the topic of second page. I think I've finally found a way to draw Nava's head's outline quite cogently, so hopefully with some more practice I'll be able to try and draw him in different poses...
I'll be glad to hear some criticism, I hope to improve my drawing, so a remark from someone else may be very useful. Thanks in advance to anybody commenting!
