Sketch Dump: The Asia Notebook 8: Asia Girls 8

A couple more drawing of the same models showcasing different hairstyles.

There's a bunch of animation sketches in Asia's book.  These are a few of the frames, except for the one in the bottom right, which was by another artist.

I was so annoyed with my initial drawing from Asia's book that I went back and redid it . . . worse.  I give up.  I don't know why I had such a hard time doing sketches from this book.  I do recommend it because a very appealing art boo.  I guess I just don't recommend it for myself for drawing purposes.

This is a couple more of the different hairstyle models that I did afterward.  I never could quite get the models right, but I enjoyed drawing the hair.

Sketch Dump: The Asia Notebook 7: Asia Girls 7

Lots of pencil sketches here.  Some of these look alike, because it's the same model with different hairstyles.

I kind of like that rear head view.  

These are kind of poor, but I was trying.

Sketch Dump: The Asia Notebook 6: Asia Girls 6

This batch is really hit or miss.  The one on the right is a base figure used several times to show different hairstyles.

Ugh.  Please ignore the misplaced arm on the one on the left.

Two of the three are kinda cute.  I'm still working on the 3/4 face view here.

 

I like the one on the left a lot.  You wouldn't think orange and green would work for hair color, but there you go.  The little flower details sell it.  

These two are kind cute.  They may a little too alike, except for the hair color.

 

Sketch Dump: The Asia Notebook 5: Asia Girls 5

I feel like a turned a bit of a corner after the last couple of sketches.  These two have some life and animation in them.  That's what I'm trying to do.   

That's one of the better 3/4 views I've done on the left.  That's one thing about this artbook; it's given me plenty of practice doing something I'm not great at.

Don't blame me for the green hair.  That was in the original drawing.  Were it not for the out-of-proportion body, the one on the right would be nice.

That's an unintentionally scary geisha on the left.  

The one on the left is weird.  The one on the right is bad.  I don't know why I wasn't fixing these crossed eyes before I inked them.  

Sketch Dump: The Asia Notebook 4: Asia Girls 4

 It's still not going well.  These are bad.  

The one on the left may be where I hit bottom.  I don't know why I bothered inking and coloring that one.

Finally, the one on the right came out right.  It's not perfect, but looks nice.  That's not a pose I often draw, so it's a bit off.  The coloring is spot on.

I went back to the pencils for some reason.  I wish I could do sketchbook full of sketches like the one on the left.

Sketch Dump: The Asia Notebook 3: Asia Girls 3

It gets worse.  The one of the left is uninspired.  The one on the right is a screwed up 3/4 view.

I can draw profile shots, but the near-profile pictures are hard.

This page is just a mess.  I like the coloring on the hair on the one on the left.

I like the weird hair coloring on the left.  On the right, I can see where I was on a downward slope and the drawings were getting worse and I couldn't figure out how to fix it.  Asia's anime-style isn't how I draw, so I'm doing things out of proportion unintentionally trying to draw like her.

A little better, but not very confident-looking.

Sketch Dump: The Asia Notebook 2: Asia Girls 2

This one was ambitious.  The figure proportions are at least close, but not quite.  The cats are disappointing.

 

Classy (except for the hands, which aren't real good on most of these).  

Little wonder she looks so unhappy; she's badly drawn.  The figure is okay, but the colors are lousy and the face looks like an afterthought.  I don't know how that happened.

Sort of okay.

The fox needs more work.  He got jammed into the corner there.  The kitsune fox girl is too angry-looking for my tastes.  I probably started doing the pencil sketches in frustration after the unsatisfying ink and color ones.  They look nice.  I keep inking and coloring because I think it helps my penciling. 

Sketch Dump: The Asia Notebook 1: Asia Girls 1

 

I bought three artbooks last year: Ilya and Pernille and this one of Asia Ladowska.  This one was an easy buy at the time.  It's bright and colorful well-done manga-style art.  However, while the style was clean and straightforward, I had a terrible time sketching a lot of these drawings.  After going through the first two artbooks, I thought that I'd do better.    

It started right with the first page of my brand new sketchbook at the time.  It's just a complete goof.  Asia is also really good at 3/4 views on faces.  I'm miserable at them.  

I felt like I redeemed myself a bit on the next drawing on the left.  I did a decent 3/4 view on the one on the right.

She's a bit thin, but I like this one.  She's way more punk in the original.

This is nice.  Interesting hair coloring.  

Then the wheels came off a bit.  The figure is okay, but I muffed the face.  It might have happened in the inking.