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my first Erza Scarlet drawing. I was kinda motivated to draw because I just bought a new sketchpad, so.. I drew this. XD thanks to Faber Castell for the awesome stuffs~! <3 the scanner is against this, I think. :V

Yeah! Sure!

Look! I finally managed to finish drawing something with my tablet! Sorry it's not DC... But... FranticShipping is just that awesome! XD Please tell me what you think! ;D (BTW... FranticShipping=RubyxSapphire from the Pokemon Special manga. )

Tutorial 1. A way of copying a drawing accurately. This tutorial will cover basic measuring, point to point drawing and plumb lines. NOTE: This is mucheasier to do with pencil and paper. I'm only doing it on computer because I have no scanner. No matter what you're using please look up tutorials to how to measure with your pencil. Such as this on http://www.ehow.com/how_5511040_use-pencil-measure-drawing.html Also I would recommend drawing something easier then this at the beginning. Haibara is kinda complicated xD. Try drawing a box or something~ Don't expect to get it perfect the first time, this is very difficult skill to learn!!! Let's say I want to copy the drawing of Haibara in this picture. (note: try to get your hands on a bigger reference picture when you try this on your own) Now some of you might just start at the eyes or the hair, then kinda guess the rest of the way. But there is actually a more accurate (but slower and more tedious) way of copying pictures. You don't have to follow all the steps exactly, just using 1 measuring skill might already improve your drawing! Tip: A way to get really accurate drawing is to flip the Haibara picture upside down and copy it upside down. That way you will draw what you actually see and not what you think you see. I won't do that here though because I'm afraid it will confuse people looking at this tutorial lol. First you want to figure out how Haibara fits in the picture. Haibara's chin is in the center of the pic. Her hair is close to the edge. Her eyes are slanted, the top of 1 eye is the middle of the second one. Lightly sketch these straight lines on your paper. Note that it's very important that these lines are STRAIGHT, they're crooked in my example because I fail at drawing on computer otz. These lines are called "plumb lines". They're a way to measure objects~ Now we want to find the exact location of where everything is located. We're going to do that by lightly making marks/dots at important points and drawing a straight line through the dots. This type of drawing is called "point to point drawing". We find the points by using those plumb lines I was talking about. Measuring with your pencil is important here! The chin is around 1/6 the way up the picture, the cheek is around 2/6 the way across and the top of the head is around 1/4 the way across, etc... Of course this is all guessing ^^, try to get it close but it doesn't have to be perfect. We can always fix it later! When your relatively comfortable with were the points are you can lightly put a STRAIGHT line through the points. We're just mapping out where everything is right now, so don't obsess over details. You can lightly curve the lines using multiple straight lines. That will make sure the curve is accurate. So continue lightly putting dots in places you're not sure where things go. And lightly putting a line through it. You can use the points to get other points. For example some points are on the same horizontal as another point. You can also use your pencil to measure the angle of one point to another. Note that I don't really put many points when I'm doing the hair. It's because I like to take liberties with the hair (it won't make her completely unrecognizable). However points such as the face and main spikey for the hair I will try to get as accurate as possible. If you're trying to get it "perfect" then you'll have to make points at the hair as well ^^. Here's this step finished. Note that I didn't follow my plumb lines exactly, they're not very accurate since they're not straight. When you do this step I would recommend looking at the pictures upside down to make sure things are accurate! Now pushing a little bit harder with your pencil, you're going to "draw" Haibara. It should be a bit easier now that you measure out where everything is! If you made mistakes on your measurement, it will be very apparent here. If that's the case go back and remeasure the things you think you didn't get right. Erase the light pencil lines and you're finished! Note that my copy isn't perfect at all xD haha. I still need to work on this. The face is really off haha. Anyways here's my tutorial, I hope you learned a little bit. - kirite <3