I WAS LOOKING THROUGH MY OLD POSTS AND REALIZED
TODAY MARKS TWO YEARS SINCE I STARTED THIS BLOG!!!
*extreme confetti that I'll never clean up*
My, how time runs fast, and life changes.
Now I return to the original reason I wrote this second post today that keeps getting longer as I find stuff to add to it. *sweat drop*
Reread My Evil Twin by Thomas McKean (seriously a great book) and How to Draw More Manga by Katy Coope. I finally decided I'd put Katy's tips to use.
Cuz I didn't want lined paper and was too lazy to find some plain, I grabbed a napkin. (Also, I kinda feel like using a napkin would be the kind of thing a real artist would do.)
This is how she usually draws eyes, along with the different variations presented. I found it sometimes similar to the way Arakawa draws.
That fifth one came out too big for an eyebrow and a little wonky in my opinion... And I had in my backpack a black, blue, and purple pen, so.
Though I think it looks like a simplified copy of Coope's work in the book, I'm still proud of what I sketched on the other side:
His eyes ended up kinda mean, but it's balanced out by his eyebrows... If you can see them. *sweat drop* Why do I draw eyebrows too high?
It feels weird to give characters names of people I've already met before (I'm not best friends with a Cooper, but I know one) but it just seems to fit this guy so perfectly. What an average name for a guy with blue hair. *chuckle* He may or may not stay with that color.
Cooper Reynolds is now in my character list, and Katy eyes is now in my drawing arsenal! (Along with Alice eyes, Ed eyes, Al eyes, and my eyes.)
(As I was editing this later today, I realized... Coope... Cooper... That's probably not a coincidence. I'm sorry, author!~ *sob*)
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