Okay before I start, look at the image below.

 

 

Honestly I want everyone’s opinion on this because I, uhhh, I kinda, maybe, uh, drew…that. Yeah uh, so, umm what do you think? (Please leave a comment down below because I really want maybe some constructive criticism or another persons opinion you know?) This took me at least four hours to complete.

Including basic sketching, facial extents. positioning, undercoat/overcoat, base drafts, color testing, character dynamics, eye dynamics, figure shadowing, body shading, color dynamic process, creasing, shading, muscle development, blurring, smudging, positioning, hue saturation, brightness, recoloring, curving, color balance, sharpen extenuating, motion blur, opacity, and of course the Gaussian blur.

By the way, this drawing is of Percy Jackson one of my favorite book characters. He is a demigod of the Big Three, meaning his father is Poseidon, his three cousins are children of Hades or Zeus, two other very powerful Greek gods(I am currently working on a similar drawing of Annabeth Chase, another character from the book who is a Daughter of Athena and Percy’s best friend turned girlfriend.)  I decided to draw him because he and other characters from the book are very influential to me. Percy had a tough life even before finding out he was a demigod. He kept getting kicked out of schools, he had a abusive stepfather who *cough*drank*cough*alot*, he had terrible grades, his mother had a minimum wage and was working two part time jobs, he was constantly bullied, only had one friend, and was constantly wondering whether or not he would ever belonged somewhere where he could be accepted. Have I made you cry yet? Okay lets continue!

Ever since hitting Camp Half Blood(aka the only place safe for demigods and satyrs alike. As well as the place I want to live in besides Hogwarts.) He had discovered he inherited powers to control water(you know control tsunamis and cause them. bend water, breath underwater, you know the normal stuff)he meets his new best friend(and crush but she doesn’t know that yet)Annabeth Chase and goes on a quest with her so he can convince Hades and Zeus that he did not steal Zeus’s lightning and he shouldn’t suffer a a slow and painful death and watch everyone he ever loved die in front of him and disintegrate. May I remind a twelve year old kid had to deal with ALL OF THIS.

OH AND THERE’S MORE.

For the next four books(in the last one he is sixteen)he goes on a bunch of quests, saves a bunch of people, fights in a war, almost watches his best friend die on his account, sees that a bunch of other demigods have died in the war, declines immortality, holds the sky, fights a bunch of gods, gets ignored by his dad, almost dies a couple of times, totally normal. After the PJO books ended I discovered that there was a second series. AKA MY HAPPINESS. It is called Heroes of Olympus and basically Percy and Annabeth are dragged into another prophecy:

Seven half bloods shall answer the call

To storm or fire the world must fall

An oath to keep with a final breath

And foes bear arms to the doors of death.

Hera(THE GREEK GODDESS I WISH WOULD FALL INTO TARTARUS HERSELF)wipes Percy’s memory cleaner than a whiteboard, he stumbles upon a Roman demigod camp called SPQR where he is turned praetor and meets Frank and Hazel a son of Ares and a daughter of Hades. They go on this epic quest to find Leo Valdez, Piper McLean, Jason Grace, and Annabeth Chase. The other four demigods in the prophecy.  OH YEAH AND THERE’S SOMETHING ELSE. Percy, even with his memory being wiped out by THE MOST POWERFUL GODDESS IN OLYMPUS, he still remembers Annabeth. Every single bit about her. See this is how loyal and loving he is and he sacrifices so much. Oh my god every time I think of it I just want to just AAAAHHHHHHH THERE SO CUTE TOGETHER OH MY GODS WHY.

you know, there’s that tiny dark part of me thats just a full on Aphrodite girl who fangirls over every cute couple in sight.

Anyway. Percy and Annabeth FINALLY reunite in the Mark of Athena. Annabeth befriends Reyna, the other Roman Praetor. They both try working together to reunite both demigod camps to fight against Gaea. But Athena just had to pick Annabeth to go into a pit of death and darkness to retrieve the Athena Parthenos so the entire demigod population doesn’t die. No pressure right?

This fandom is making me insane.

The reason Athena picked Annabeth to follow the Mark of Athena is because Annabeth is the most powerful and wittiest Athenian demigod. Percy doesn’t want Annabeth to leave because they had just reunited and he did not want to risk losing his other half once more. But alas, against Percy and the rest of the Sevens wishes Annabeth goes onto her quest that is basically a suicide mission. After she recovers the sacred statue, gets interrogated by ghosts, breaks her ankle, survives falling at least seventy feet, and survives being eaten alive by spiders the size of fire trucks stacked on top of each other, she is safely in the arms of the other demigods of the prophecy. But she herself has her feet tangled into strong cobwebs and gets dragged into the pit of tartarus. Percy fortunately catches Annabeth but he is dangling on a ledge himself, he refuses to leave Annabeth so he falls into the landscape equivalent of a hellfire with Annabeth.

Honestly I wanted to rip the authors head of and throw it into an open fire because I was just like WHY U NOT WANT MY TWO FAVORITE CHARACTERS TO STRIVE. But i am to lazy to tell the rest of the series so I will just spoil it.

OOHH CLIFFHANGER

(BTW They survive)

So yeah, every time I just think about this specific characters story and instantly get happier when I feel like a failure. I have been struggling for quite a while to find my own art style but I have been practicing constantly, trying and trying because, my art is my life. Without my life would be boring and I would be nothing. So yeah thats basically it and this is probably going to be a daily thing with me posting my drawings. But there is a big problem now

Art is so vast.

But the human mind is oh so narrow.