Lesson learned...

I will never ever again offer free realism commissions >.< I have been working on one for about a week now and I'm still not finished. Don't get me wrong, I love working on it - it's a lot of fun. It just takes forever XD

I think it will look really awesome when I'm finished, though. If I finish lol. 

Doing the free ones is really gearing me up to do paid ones. I get a bit of experience working WITH people and I'm improving a lot because I want them to be completely satisfied. 

In the meantime, I have taken a few breaks to keep from getting bored, and in those times, I've drawn a few things... With graphite, I mean.

These are speedsketches, which means I draw them in ten minutes or less. It's a drawing exercise I assigned myself to improve speed, but also to teach myself good drawing habits. Whenever I speedsketch, I don't pre-draw the image -- I just start shading and making darker and lighter value shapes. While I'm still not the best at it, I'm getting better and it's relatively amusing.

I can also do 30 min chibi portraits XD

 

The background is epic sucketh, but only because I was lazy... 

Um. Well. That's it, really. Considering I have been working on that one painting, I haven't done much else. Besides, I only have time to paint between work and either TKD or piano, and I still like to have time to study Japanese. My life is full and happy. So why does Facebook keep telling me I need a boyfriend???