Yes, I finally get around to doing another drawing! My last drawing, if you remember, was of
Charlize Theron (from
Æon Flux) way back in 2006.
It was really hard drawing after such a long time. I tried drawing
this picture of
Avril Lavigne first, but I just couldn't get her eyes right. All that eye shadow and under-eye detail combined with my rusty drawing skills made it impossible to draw. And when the eyes aren't drawn properly, the whole face looks weird. And that's exactly what happened.
Anyway, so after a lot of searching for
easy images to draw, I ended up with
this poster of
Tom Cruise from
Mission: Impossible 3. Wasn't as easy to draw as I thought it would be, but at least the end result bears some resemblance to the original.
And I wasn't done with
just the drawing. I decided to load it up in
Paint Shop Pro and add some CG effects to it. Coincidently, I happened to stumble across this open source fractal flame editor called
Apophysis, so I used that to render the blue smoke background. I then colorized the drawing to a grayish-brown and added the text and
M:I 3 logo. This is the final result —
By the way, I now use a 19"
Samsung 932NW monitor, so expect more widescreen images from now on. After all, what's the point of making these when I can't use them as wallpaper?
