So... I drew something...

...again...

...because that's what I do.

And this time around, I drew my children Tirith (the most underrated child of mine at the moment) and Daugonnen, who are both uncles, of my favourite duo...
Why do I have so many open ended sentences this time around? Good question...

Maybe it's because I hate both drawings and am feeling a bit frustrated because of that...

Well, hate is indeed a strong word, but I really don't like both.
It all started with me wanting to draw Tirith again, since I give so much attention to his twin brother Feredir and his nephew Cevrond.

The problem with Tirith is, that I struggle drawing him about as much as I struggle drawing Cevrond. WHICH IS SUPER FRUSTRATING BECAUSE I CAN DRAW HIS IDENTICAL TWIN PERFECTLY FINE.
... Oh boy... I love his design, since he's just cool... but I can never get it to look as cool as I have it in my head. So I attempted yet another portrait... and failed... but here it is anyways:

Looking at it, his face it a bit too wide and his eyes don't sit well with me... something is wrong and it disturbs me quite a bit. But it's always fun to draw him, so I haven't given up hope just yet ^-^

Next up I wanted to draw my child Daugonnen again. Why? Because he's the only OC with vitiligo that I have ever drawn... and I fucked up, because I didn't do enough research. And I think I may have offended someone who actually has vitiligo on instagram... So instead if throwing him outta the widow, I instead decided to just draw him again and make things right...

>> also puts old pic in here, for comparison reasons <<

So a few things I've learnt about vitiligo (at least the type of vitiligo that Gonnen has) that I obviously disregarded in my original design was... well... it's mostly symmetrical and mostly on face and hands, particularily around body openings, such as eyes, mouth and nose... it also doesn't discolour the eyes since it's a skin-thing... and eyes aren't part of the skin... I knew that in the old picture too (I'm not that stupid) but the idea of two coloured eyes was cool, so I decided to put that there anyways.
I'm still keeping the two eye-colour thing, but less obvious and it's something that would come in through rendering and shading, so in the new version the eye colour looks the same, because... flats... yeah...... >w<

Anyways, here's the new drawing. I do indeed hope that I managed to.. kinda capture it right this time around...

Now... why do I hate this drawing? I'm happy with the vitiligo, and think the hair came along better than the last time... but I fucked up the facial proportions. Eyes are too high, nose is too long and thus it all looks a little weird. His entire head just looks to long and large for his neck, which really really rustrates me...

And not only in this drawing. It's been a development in my style, that I really dislike.
I'm also unhappy with the way I draw my faces, since it allows me more flexibility in the overall shape (which i should indeed use more to my advantage, to be honest) but gives me immense struggles depicting other degrees of body-fat... EVERYONE LOOKS LIKE THEY HAVEN'T EATEN IN DAYS, AND WHILST I DO LOVE ALL MY SKINNY BOIIS, NOT EVERYONE IS A STICK-PERSON.
Ugh... I said it. There it is.
I also don't like how long my noses have become in recent times, and how I thus need to change the entire facial structure for it to not look awkward. (Also: they all have big ears that stick out a bit very much... whilst I do indeed like it, it sucks, since all ears end up looking the same...)

So that's a lot of flaws in my style, that I specifically realised after drawing these two portraits and is something, that I wish to deliberately battle against in my upcoming artwork.

Anyways, that's it for today. I hope you liked the chapter and the drawing a bit more than I do... just remember, that "Art" is just short for "a rough time" and everyone struggles at times >w<
>>cuddles you and gives you cookies, teas and ice cream<<