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For a few months now, I have been quite interested in drawing and art. I made it a decision to try and practice very frequently. This time, I decided to wander a bit outside my comfort zone which is actually drawing stuff; not copying, not drawing basic 3D shapes, but actually using my brain and imagination to draw something. Besides, what good would it be I kept learning how to draw and never actually drew anything?

With that, I've decided to draw what I want to draw and stick with it, no matter how bad it turns out.

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My subject of today's drawing session is going to be Quote from a game called Cave Story.

^{Image Source}

Quote is the main character of the game and I'm a fan of his design so I said "why not."

First, I needed to find a reference for a pose to use because I'm not great at imagining poses.

I scrolled through Pinterest to find a suitable pose until I found a decent one. Plus the model was also holding a gun which was a plus.

^{For this drawing, I'll be using the image on the right. Image Source}

Now that I had everything I needed - a character and pose reference - I could now begin drawing.

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Process

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First, I started off with a rough gesture sketch to roughly get the pose down on paper.

^{I apologize for the unclear sketch. I didn't think it would come out looking this light.}

Next, I started to roughly sketch out the character's main details and properties on the model.

^{Once again, I apologize for the sketch. 😅}

To be honest, the hardest part of all of this was getting the pistol because:

1. I've never drawn a pistol before
2. I've never drawn hands holding a pistol before
3. I had no idea of how to draw everything without it looking so weird

I also tried drawing the pistol somewhere else before moving to the main thing but unfortunately that did not help much.

^{I don't know why but I didn't even think of drawing the pistol faced straight.}

As expected, I'm bad at drawing hands. So trying to draw this together with the gun was a nightmare.

^{I completely lost track of what I was doing here.}

This is the final line art:

I was feeling a bit daring so I decided to challenge myself by shading. Including this work, I've only shaded twice so I don't really know what I was doing .

At the same time, I decided to add a few minor details. After everything was done, this was the final result:

I'm not going to lie, it doesn't look so great. There are definitely a few things I got pretty wrongly, but it's alright. Every attempt is a step to getting better.

With enough time and proper practice, I believe that I can improve at art.

Thanks for stopping by and see you later :D