= Artist Baton ( thingy o_o )
✖ Your name?
Alaena, Roseille; whatever.
✖ If possible, your age?
19 (I'm so old.)
✖ When did you start drawing?
When I was 6 or 7, maybe? Lived without electricity for a long time, so I drew these atrocious paper dolls and then cut them out and did terrible things to them. It was fun. They were ugly. Imagine crayon-colored monsters.
✖ Which hand do you use for drawing?
Left. For everything, actually, except the stuff they stubbornly taught me to do with my right hand.
✖ Which is easier to draw - male or female?
Female, maybe? I feel more comfortable with female anatomy, but I draw more guys.
✖ Which is easier to draw - long hair or short hair?
Hmm, short. I think my long hair looks creepy unnatural.
✖ Is it easier to draw the head facing towards the right or the left?
My right or theirs? I guess I draw better when the face is pointing towards my left.
✖ Is it easier to draw the side view of the face or the front view?
Both are hard. I put the eyes in the wrong places. And the nose and mouth and stuff. all. the time.
✖ What do you have problems in drawing?
...What don't I have trouble drawing? I guess mostly I have trouble making everything the right size and in the right place. Anatomy and proportion kill me dead all the time. I won't even talk about perspective... it's a sad, sad sight to see me attempt it. This is what happens when a little hermit child teaches herself to draw for her entire life without any guidance from anyone but her mom and siblings.
✖ What do you like to draw?
People. Anime-style people. Blood. :3 My sad attempts at expression through pose and colors.
✖ Are you a traditional artist or a digital artist?
Both. I can't really draw lineart on my computer, because the screen resolution is kinda small and my tablet freezes all the time, but I don't have the tools to color traditionally. So, pencil lineart, digital coloring. :3
✖ Where do you start drawing from?
The edge of the chin... Usually. ;A;
✖ What is your drawing habit that you are aware of?
Holding my paper upside down in front of a lightbulb to make sure that the anatomy doesn't look sucky backwards. It still does, usually. Being a lefty, I have that terrible habit of writing with my hand twisted upward and around, so my hand scrapes over whatever I draw; a lot of erasing is involved.
✖ Any tips for coloring/shading?
o___o I am not qualified to give these tips. B-but overlay layers are my friend. Multiply was made for clipping layers.
✖ How long does it take to finish a piece of art?
Depends. Usually less than a couple hours (give or take an hour or so) for the basic lines, then several hours for obsessive coloring.
✖ What music do you listen to while you draw?
Usually I don't listen to too much music, but if I listen to anything, it will probably include some Vienna Teng, Poets of the Fall, Skillet, Relient K, Tatu, Trading Yesterday, Within Temptation, Nightwish, or sumfin like that. :3 It depends on what I'm drawing and what mood I'm in.
✖ How long does it take you to come up with an idea?
Usually I start with a desperate need to draw and a basic idea or emotion, and let it work itself out as it will with the lines.
✖ Your favorite drawing utensils?
Cheap .7 mm mechanical pencil, printer paper. I hear of these wonderful things called .5 mm pencils, but I've only ever seen one. I wannnt.... && Photoshop 7.0, in all its outdated glory.
✖ Your favorite color/the color that you use a lot?
Blue is my favorite color. I use it a lot. But not bright blue. I have this atrocious habit of using dirty, earthy colors, because they're my favorites. Primary colors are my personal enemy.
✖ Your favorite style(s)?
I tend toward darkish and kind of grungy stuff. When something is too pristine, it scares me. I love just staring at other people's art. I love looking at shading. It's so cool. I'M SUCH A FRIKKIN' BEGGAR AMONG GENIUSES.
♥ manga / manhwa / game artists:
Kamatani Yuhki, Midorikawa Yuki, Daisuke Moriyama, Mochizuki Jun, Tsukuba Sakura, Kaori Ozaki
♥ deviantART artists:
I APPROVE OF THEM
✖ What kind of artist are you aiming for?
What kind of artist am I aiming to become? A half-decent one would be fine. If the half-decent artist was comfortable with anatomy, proportion, and perspective, it would be especially fine.
✖ Thank you.
Now please fill in the next columns by writing the names of the artists that match the criteria. Artists tagged must fill in this baton.
(But if you've been tagged once or twice already, it's optional)
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O-or something like that.
you guys. You're my inspiration.Oh heck, I never update my journal. The world will end when I press the submit button. Ready? Okay.
Here goes.
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F I V E F R E E S K E T C H E S. 
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