Jaco’s Random Writings

I’ve been working on that rough sketch of Alita since I got home a few hours ago. The lips were giving me a little trouble. Mostly because I’m still getting the hang of drawing lips from a side-profile perspective (and the face looking slightly downwards didn’t help). But with some drawing, redrawing, and more redrawing, I think I got it right. Alita is supposed to have rather large lips (Makes Angelina Jolie’s look like a pencil line). But I needed to get them so that they didn’t look ridiculous. At some point it looked like she had a little Hitler mustache from all the retracing of her upperlip. I spent almost 15 minutes just on her upper lip*. Anyway, here’s the practice sketch:

Well, there are a few things that would need to be improved on. The shape and scale of the head is off. The hand needs work. It needs quite a bit of work. But, that was a decent practice sketch. At least for the purpose of getting an hang of drawing Alita. Well, we’ll see if I continue with this trend for tomorrow night’s post.

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* No, that was not an intentional “Napoleon Dynamite” reference. In fact, I didn’t even realize that it was one until about 5 minutes after I typed it. But I figured I would write this just to congratulate those who read that phrase and thought: “Holy crap, that’s from Napoleon Dynamite.” Congratulations. Like me, you wish you could have the 95 minutes back that you spent watching that movie.