• 2016 drawing diary: x

January

• 8 | From 00h10am to 1h30am, used wacom to practice digital painting + made some water study.
• 11 | Drew Semi Eita in that sheet for shiratorizawa characters. I didn't get the result I wanted (his eyes were weird) but at least I completed the sheet.
• 18 | Some doodles at the crack of the night | More doodles in the afternoon, out of boredom.
• 19-20 | Decided to make a digital drawing of Kim Seokjin from BTS, because I like to portray handsome people. But man, ain't it difficult to draw korean men. (Actually, realistic style is just plenty hard for me.) Had to re-start it after 20min, but I'm making some progress... slow progress... Not even done with the face draft.
• 22 | Fixing some things in that drawing of Jin. 40min progress or so. At 00h40 to 1h20, I guess.
• 30 | Used wacom for hours! Since 11pm of the previous day until 2am of today, with just one intermittent pause to help Lari with something. Adjusted some details of Jin's face - as example, now his eyes and nose are way better-shaped and alike to his real ones. I just need to align the eyes better. Then, I'll be done with the face sketch, and able to work in his neck and bust. Sighs. To think this drawing is not even 15% done... It fills me with determination. (and frustration.) | Some doodles at night. Meh. I think I suck at practicing perspective. And I have only tried the one point type.

February

• 5-6 | Digital art at night, until 1am of next day. It felt really good to do. It's abstract - a mosaic, I would say. I liked the combination of colors I made. Also liked its imperfections.
• 7 | Some doodles in class, practicing facial expressions and legs/feet. In first day of school. I swear I'm a model student though.
• 10 | More incredibly useless doodles in class.
• 12 | Made some (small) progress in that digital drawing of Jin. I think I'm going to keep it black-and-white, fuck it.
• 17 | doodles in class
• 22 | Made some nice drawings in church, but it wasnt in my sketchbook so I couldnt keep it... *sobs*
• 23 | Doodles in class! Practicing some anatomy with random positions
• 27 | With wacom, started drawing Penny from stardew valley
• 28 | Continued drawing of Penny. Improved its quality, then made the linework. It's the first time I actually use linework, because I'm not very keen of it (I prefer the doodled version), but I want to try and see the results after I paint it.

March

• 3 | Started painting Penny's hair, I'm liking the result. It feels so satisfying to do it. Arting is fun.
• 9 | Continued painting Penny's hair! It looks nice, I feel proud of it. Just some more details, and I'll start painting her face.
• 12 | THE COCKATOO IS BACK, one of the drawings I had left aside for a really long time. Finally decided to adjust things and improve it; now the bird's body and wings are proportional enough, and way better, specially if compared with my first sketch. I'm finally satisfied with the drawing, guess I'll start paiting it.
• 13 | Doodles made specially for Lari. I loved her reactions <3 It was so cute.
• 14 | In class, drew more things... For Lari. Kind of a sappy comic strip. I really liked the result
• 15 | Did more details in Penny's hair
• 25 | More things in Penny's hair. Something is blocking me from starting to paint her face at once.

April

• 3 | Drawing in school. Mainly flowers (they're so good to draw). Decided it would be better colorful than black and white, so painted it with my color pencils.
• 7 | Started sketching a small corgi in my class.
• 13-14 | Doodling until post-midnight. Started with some sad drawings, like a guy using bandages as a binder with a paper bag on his head written "HIDE." Fortunately, my mood got better and I started doodling some more positive stuff (even drew a little guy holding a poster written "CHEER UP" to Gabs). Continued that Corgi drawing and made some doodles to practice movement. Why am I so better with figures in miniature?
• 17 | Tried to make some progress in that cockatoo for Lari
• 21 | At that retirement, during lunch break, needed to distract myself from self-destructive thoughts so I just made some doodles.
• 22 | Same thing as yesterday. Doodles aka failures.
• 28-29 | Inspired myself with pinterest and started a new drawing in my new sketchbook. First time in a good while I try to do a drawing in a realitic style on paper. Didn't finish it, but I'm kinda proud of the result. From 11pm to 1am of the next day, I guess.

May

• 9 | Doodles with red pen in the back cover and in a random page of my school notebook, during class. Some women armor and fighting positions.
• 10 | Doodles in my math book. It's new and already all scrawled.
• 14 | At 3am, continued that drawing I started in April. I took the risk and decided to use a different style in it, using shadowing with pen. I'm afraid it screwed up the drawing, but I'm hopeful it'll get better when it's totally done.
• 18 | Another night filled with insomnia. To calm myself from anxiety and maybe recover from sleepilessness, made some doodles in my sketchbook.
• 20 | At 12am, finally did something for Mermay! Drew a entire-body mermaid in 35min, without using reference. I'm kinda proud at how much I'm improving in anatomy. Just her face kinda looks off | At night, doodled more mermaids and fixed the former mermaid's face
• 30 | A fine doodle during afternoon class. Anatomy was kinda good in it. Wish I had drew it in an actual sketchbook instead of my regular notebook.
• 31 | After some stress while looking for my missing sketchbook, made several sketches of Yoon In Gyi (Queen), from Girls of The Wild manhwa! She's badass and cute at the same time. I love her. And I have so many screenshots of her in my cellphone... lots of waifu material.

June

• 3 | After midnight, started digitalizing Ro's sketched map for her original story. Not done yet, still need to complete and paint the continents.
• 16 | After midnight, drew in my sketchbook Queen from Girls of The Wild (although it didn't quite look like her), using a beautiful reference from the manhwa. In less than one hour, managed to draw everything. | Made some clothes doodles. I need to practice clothing, god.
• 17 | As planned, took most of the day for drawing (digitally), while listening to music. I missed doing this kind of thing. First, at 1pm, continued some things for Ro's map. | Then, made a good amount of progress in Penny's drawing, which layed untouched for some while. Painted her face, following my (poor) style of semi-realistic shadowing, defining her lips and nose, and started her eyes. | Got tired of Penny and decided to practice clothing, choosing a random reference. Originally, was just gonna draw the body and the shirt and pants; but, after a 40min pause, actualy drew my oc, Gray, too. I'm proud of the final result. Maybe Imma paint him some day.
• 18 | After midnight, searched for some kpop girls/boys to use as reference for practicing more clothing, but did it just until 1h30am, sketching just 3 of them. Gotta finish it later
• 20 | Boredom in class leads me to doodling all over my math book
• 23 | A drawing during chemistry class, in my notebook, tried some shadowing. But meh. | Drew a grandpa in the back cover of my notebook, also in school. | At home, after reading a bit, drew again! Was going to study but instead got too distracted dooling all over the backcover of my notebook. I decided to continue drawing in my sketchbook later on, and likes the results <3
• 26 | At school, in my sketchbook (I'm bringing it with me everyday now), made drawing of a boy wearing flannel (head and bust)
• 27 | At school, made some doodles of females and clothings | Actually, drew more than payed attention to class today. Completed a full page of my sketchbook.

July

• 4 | Drew a boy holding a rose with thorns, with hands bleeding, and other angsty stuff (with some angsty captions too.) Way to express my suffocating feelings. | Also, drew a girl in the afternoon class.
• 7 | Drew a prince wearing a coat, and a figure wearing a long skirt and a hijab. I think I'm getting way better at drawing clothes.
• 8-9 | From 11pm to 1am of the other day, made a digital drawing of my other oc, Tyler <3 I'm really proud of it because I didn't use any reference ;;
• 9 | From 3pm to 5pm, started painting that drawing of Tyler. Mixed multiple tones in his hair, I like the result. Stopped to draw Brenda, my other oc. She's gothic. And a mulherão da porra.
• 12 | At school, drew a boat and a small landscape ok a lake and a meadown (no coloring) to practice shadowing. I liked the water aspect :0
• 16 | Failed attempt to draw semishira using wacom. Heavy sighs.
• 20 | Drew for almost 5 hours today! From 5pm to past 9pm. I finally finished that stylized "realistic" drawing with nanquim that I started in April (and posted it in facebook and twitter); then, made a quick drawing of Queen (from girls of the wild) and coloured it with my pencils; made a redraw of a feels doodle ("Hide"); quick random doodle; drew a boy by profile looking upwards, which I intend to paint when I get my watercolor material; practiced drawing feet and shoes; and finally, made a linework with nanquim pen in a drawing from june.
• 25 | Just felt like drawing and did it, for one/two hours or so, at 4pm, before guests arrived. Filled up an entire blank page with doodles! Practiced a bit of anatomy with random small figures and facial expressions; and did several attempts to draw Shirabu Kenjirou. Can't say it worked.
• 26 | Today, I bought my watercolor set! It's from fabercastell, with 12 different powder colors. Also bought a new cream-colored sketchbook, and an amazing black gel pen. As soon as I got home, drew and painted for 3 hours! Made 3 drawings to train my watercolor painting (I'm still learning, but getting there!), then started to color a previously drawn doodle.

August

• 1 | Drawed basically during all classes. Don't blame me, first day of class sucks. Drew my OC for real now! 4 doodles of Tyler, and I really liked their results. Tried to draw Gray but didn't work. AND, attempt to draw my biology's teacher, Erik. I liked it but I don't think it's similar to him, although he was impressed. | And then, in afternoon classes, drew Amanda from Dream Daddy (using reference) and random doosles in chemistry class.
• 3 | Just some oc drawings in class. Drew Tyler, but it sucked after I overlayed it with gel black pen. Tried to draw Gray, but failed. Started to draw Lana.
• 4 | Literally drew in all classes again, ha. The last 2 classes were kinda useless so I couldn't help it. First, finished Lana and drew my oc, Cameron, and finished the pen linework. Then, made a draft of a landscape. At last, drew Damien from Dream Daddy, while looking at the reference in my phone. It was difficult to because of the details, but I finished it in class and I'm kinda proud. | At 6h40pm, started to paint! Second time using watercolor and I'm pumped up. Made an experimental watercolor landscape; as expected, it didn't go well. After giving up on it, painted my drawings of Tyler from day 1. Im proud of it!
• 8 | In Biology class, just made some doodles of a random korean guy. I think he's my new oc. Gotta find a name for him.
• 9 | aaaand because I can't contain my self, doodled over all my didactic school books, mainly physics. Just some girls and a poor attempt or shadowing. Oh, and I've been posting all my drawings in twitter later, even the small, meaningless ones, and it's pretty cool to have it all
• 11 | Today's class was composed by 2 actually lessons AND 4 FUCKING EMPTY TIMETABLES. Used one of them to draw. Made Lotor, from Voltron. Planning to paint it later.
• 12 | At almost 1am, made a digital drawing of my newest oc, the one I created in Tuesday. His name now is Park Taeyong! I liked the result, but was in a hurry because of my mom, so I think I'll refine it later | after waking up, finished that drawing I started in 1am but I think I just worsened it lmao well worth trying anyway. Also started an anatomy practice sheet!! | Continued that sheet when came back home. Doodles of random positions, just to practice. After it, started a random experimental painting of a random new alien oc, but wacom pen bugged and I had to stop just when I got excited
• 13 | drawed more!! continued that experimental painting of that blue-skinned alien girl. after several interruptions and hours later, finally finished it! Kinda proud of the result. it was a super espontaneal thing and I finished it??? Surprising.
• 14 | At 1am, tried for some time to practice perspective with wacom, studying references, but failed vigorously.
• 16 | I wanna learn to draw sceneries. Some doodles during class of rooms and stuff, wanna paint it later
• 17 | I need to stop doodling in inappropriate places. like my school books. made a nice drawing of Gray there (which is super rare) and I wish it was in my sketchbook ;;
• 18 | in class, decided to reproduce in my sketchbook the drawing I made in the other book. It got even better, actually. I'm glad I finally managed to create a good curly hair for him. | At home, around 6pm, decided to use more watercolor. Day 3! Painted that drawing of Lotor, but I didn't like the result very much. Also made some other doodles.
• 23 | 2 doodles in my math book and on my hand.
• 25 | just scribbled in my school books
• 26 | used wacom today! for some more than one hour. it's a drawing of a lonely sad boy in a forest. sketched and improved him and his clothes for now.
• 29 | doodles in school books + failed attempt to draw yoongi from bts. it doesnt look like him but i kinda likes the result.
• 30 | a lot of doodles in school! made drawings of 4 ocs of mine, then started a new sketch of suga, using reference! | once i got home from class, finished my drawing of suga and made a drawing of another oc! :D

September

• 6-7 | Today, I finally drew things! Last month was the period in which I did art the most, but I don't think it'll repeat in september, since I have less time because of school and want to focus on writing/reading. Well, ill still try my best to keep arting. At 9h50pm, started to use my wacom and was done just after midnight thirty. Did a lot of things! First, made a lot of progress in that old cockatoo drawing, guess I have finally an idea of how to keep painting it and which style to follow. Then, did sequential experiments with wacom, such as an attempt to make pixel art, a quick room sketch to start practicing perspective and a half-assed painting of a man's back, just to train painting and anatomy.
• 9 | Got distracted from studying and made doodles on the backcover of my school book instead.
• 11 | a girl face in my school book :p
• 13 | drew more in school today! made a boy in a sitting position, guess the anatomy was fine but i hated how his face looked; over my school table, made a random doodle of a space (a kitchen) to practice perspective; tried to draw jimin from bts but failed; and started an original korean boy's face, which I drew occupying more room in my sheet than i use to.
• 14 | nothing more than some doodles in my math book to practice facial expressions diversity
• 15 | used wacom today! just for briefly more than one hour. started a new drawing tht ill probably give up on and improved that painting pratice of male backs. and added some details to another drawing.
• 19 | shadowed that korean boy and added gel pen countorning to it
• 20 | I used watercolor today!! for the 4th time ever, I guess. I started painting that drawing of dream daddy's Damien, that i made in the beginning of last month. I coloured his hair, his eyes and his indigo vest. now i gotta finish his clothes and his skin.
• 21 | during school, doodled a random girl and started a drawing of Jimin from bts! Best coreba i made so far tbh. | At home, at night, as a stress-relief, finished my Jimin drawing. Finished his shadowing and added a pen complemmenting
• 22 | doodled a cat. man, i shouldnt have coutourned it w black pen. it was way better before.
• 26 | at school, drawed damien from dream daddy! also doodled a hand. and some really bad looking things that i erased shortly after.
• 30 | as soon as the day started, went to computer to search for references and drew a lot of cat figures! Time to practice animals anatomy. And time to stop drawing only humans.

October

• 1 | for a bit more than one hour, drew more cats! Used ink for improving yesterday ones and doodled four cats and one lion. One of the cats was snarling, his nose wrinkled. I'm proud of these study results.
• 4 | drew during math class. started with a simple sketch of a boy with a haircut i'd like to have (i intend to show it to the hairdresser as a model), but then i got excited and drew more. practiced diverse facial expressions.
• 5 | sketched a man on his knees and with a woeful countenance. i have no clue about how i'll continue this drawing.
• 6 | while doing a quick call with Bryan and while chatting with Lari, used wacom to continue paiting that cockatoo gift for her <3 I'm really improving it! Did it for 40min, I guess.
• 7 | got up with a sudden, spontaneous will to paint! used my watercolor material for 2 hours, since noon thirty or something. i painted the drawings of this month (some of the felines and that boy with the nice haircut and a random girl) and an old drawing that it's definitely better now that it has colors.
• 11 | a doodle of a girl in my physics book
• 12 | was supposed to study physics, but had a sudden inspiration insight and got my sketchbook for a quick doodle... and ended up using it for 3 hours straight. Drew an indigena woman warrior or something holding arrows. Painted her with watercolor as well. Was really proud of the result <3
• 22 | tried to use my new pastel chalk pack and failed miserably.
• 24 | was feeling too down and sad in class. so, instead of paying attention to my chemistry and my physics teachers, I spilled all my feelings in a sad 13-part comic strip. i just miss her too much. wish we could be together all the time. sighs.
• 30 | at the same time I did a call with Lari, decided to use wacom and draw a bit. Instead of continuing that cockatoo, though, I just doodled some random girls. It was better than nothing anyway.
• 31 | was too bored in class so decided to draw. i haven't done it much in the last half of this month. Drew a random girl whom I turned creepy, to exude more halloween vibes. Also tried to draw a vampire and a boy with a rope around its neck for some reason. Then, using reference on web, doodled a gun.

November

• 4 | some doodles at 2am. Tried to draw Jim Hopper, from Stranger Things, but it didn't look much alike. Fine thing to practice tho. Also wrote a hand holding a cigarette, a girl face and a woman blowing smoke in a tiled background. I liked the last one the most.
• 6 | In class, used black gel pen to improve the drawing of the woman blowing smoke. I really like its result, can't wait to paint it | a lil creepy face bc halloween isnt over for me yet | dude, I started a totally random full-page drawing? It started with a boy wearing winter clothes, then I created a full background with snow and kids playing in it and an Ice Shop in the first plan and stuff like that. I mean, maybe it doesn't look that good, but I'm pretty proud! I've never been that good with sceneries and perspectives and I think I'm making progress in it.
• 7 | got too bored in afternoon classes. using a commom ballpoint blue pen, I drew in both of Laura's wrists (my friend), a boy and a girl. I also did a doodle of an eye in Lucas's hand (other hand). Then, using tht different black pen, filled my left hand's dorso with abstract figures and stuff. It looked gothic and cool.
• 8 | more details in tht snow scenery drawing or whatever
• 17 | I was really feeling like making some digital drawings, so I got my wacom but the pen pressure wasn't working (which means all the lines were thick and too nitid). However, I was too lazy to restart the pc to fix, so I used it like that anyway. Made an experimental shadowing practice using black lines | Then, i started doing a painting experiment. Tried to draw a sea. It was going well at first, to the point I even wondered if I paint better when the pressure tool isn't on, but I guess I made some layers too defined and the painting aspect became less water-like. SIGHS. It still looks nice, but doesn't seem a rippling sea like i wanted to. I liked the sky I painted, tho, with pink and orange hues tinging its clouds.
• 19 | So yea, I was in the mood for more digital drawings, but it was totally killed by my lack of skills in sketching things there. UGH. although I spent 2 hours doing it anyway. tried some feet, then some canines (even used reference but rly, it was just stupid, useless doodles), then I tried to fix that sea from yersterday but got too meh about it, and then just to try to feel a bit more productive I made some progress in painting the feathers of my cockatoo drawing. i gotta finish it until 28/12, help.
• 22 | even though I should study, I got my sketchbook at home at 6pm and spent some time doodling. made a blonde man with stoic face and bare chest covered with strange-looking tatoos, a scar in his right eye (he has heterochromia btw) and a bandage half hiding his right chest pec. I liked it. Then, I drew a girl with short hair and nice eyes. I also liked her, but now I realize her face features are kinda crooked. oh well. then, just to stimulate creativity, I created a monster... it's kinda humanoid, but had thick fur and walks on four legs. it has long claws and pitch-black warped eyes, and a contorted mouth. his ears look like a rabbit's. I like this monster. gotta find a name for him and for these 2 new ocs
• 23 | Used wacom for hurried 30 minutes with the resolution of improving that ocean painting (that honestly really looked more like green hills). Wanted to draw more but had english class
• 24 | while doing a call with Lari, I finally finished my improvements of the sea! spent a bit less than two hours on it, i guess. It's way better now, altho not perfect. I made two versions of it, one more "messy" and with more hues of green, and then, following Lari's advice, added more blue color to it and organized the brushstrokes. I guess it's good for a first time painting landscape like tht (i mean, and finishing it)
• 28 | one single doodle in chemistry book
• 29 | bored to death in physics class so just made a lot of doodles os silhouettes of canines and felines and tried to practice animal anatomy with miniature figures of them aaaa

December

• 6 | doodles in school; just a random face of an old person. liked their features. man, i feel so busy, with 0 chill to sit down and make a proper drawing
• 9 | so, after feeling bad and having a bad tearful moment, talked to Lari. It made me better and... inspired. That love for her grew bigger. I just sat down and grabbed my wacom and started drawing, trying a new style. Wrote a poetic/sappy text next to a drawing of a rose, with bright green lawn and beautiful sky and yellow dots as to remember pollen. I'm quite proud of the colouring. I was rushed and did everything in a bit more than 1h. AND SHE WAS SO HAPPY WITH IT <3 I love her so so so much
• 14 | at midnight, got wacom in computer because was bored as heck. decided to make progress in my cockatoo drawing (Lari's birthday is approaching oh god) and finally started to adjust the background. honestly i dont know what im doing but i hope it gets well later. also made some sketches just to warm up, and a doodle of a girl with delicate features. | so, at 3pm or so, got too bored and decided to draw more with wacom! made a lot of random sketches to practice, random positions, three hands, legs, a boy, and even some doggos! saved it in jpg already. then, went to draw more of the cockatoo. i think im finally done with the background!! showed it to Nat and she loved it aaaa im proud.
• 17 | from midnight until 2am, got my 3 old doodles (that woman smoking in her tiled bathroom, that goth girl, that shirtless and covered in bruises and tattoos male fighter, that monster that resembles a giant mutant black rabbit) (no its not a donnie darko reference) from november, used gel pen for them and then painted it with watercolor! I really liked the result. Guess i'm getting better at it. Also, it's fun.
• 20 | Started arting at 3h30pm and went on and on until around 6h30pm. Sister joined me in the table of living room and I teacher her how to use watercolor! I gathered a lot of drawings from past months and painted a lot of them, from Shrabu (made in july) to my ocs that i made in august/september. It's nice to define what colors they are. Then, after it, finally drew something in my sketchbook! FINALLY drew one of my Atemporal OCs, Caleb Dalton, and then drew him interacting with Noah and Scarlett (between them, with each arm around each's neck. Just need to finish its details. I liked it.
• 27 | I drew so much today because I was really determined to finish the painting of the cockatoo for Lari's birthday. From 1pm to 5pm (although with some pauses to surf the internet, chat and fill in some writings), I added details to the freaking cockatoo's wings and corrected some flaws. However, I also got distracted doodling random stuff, like a lil thing for Bryan, a "VOADORA DE 2 PÉ" e a reacc pic of me freaking out from rAGE and pulling out my hair. | Was back to drawing at 8h40pm and went on at 10h20pm. Was really tired, no way I could finish it today. Got just one of his feet done.
• 28 | More drawing today. Non-stop and with a better attention span this time. From 2h40pm to 6h30pm, when I thought I was done and started celebrating bc I TOOK 1 YEAR AND 4 MONTHS AND 60 HOURS TO FINISH IT and I showed it to Lari and she loved it aaaa <3 However, I spotted an anatomic flaw on his body and had to fix its paiting in a part, which took me more 30min. sighs. well it was worth it, although veeeery tiring. God, after this, I swear I'll take a break from digitally drawing. At least i'm really, really proud of the result <3