Bleeding Heart illustrations

Today I finally finished the cover for my comic 'Bleeding Heart' and I'd like to show you two of my masterpieces so far :)

The first one shows the three main characters of the comic: Victoria and Lamia, who we know already, and the mysterious Lucien Oddwood, who we'll meet soon. There will be more illustrations of the most important characters someday ;). This picture is coloured with Copic markers, unlukily you can't see the light shades of Lamia's and Lucien's skin in the digital version.

And the second one is the cover. Here I used Copic markers and coloured pencils to colour. Also in this digital picture, you can't see the light skin colours. I hope this picture makes you curious about the story while also not telling too much. I first tried to draw an upside down head but thanks to a book which shows how to draw these things it turned out very well.

My art progress in school

Nobody can draw from the very beginning and most people think that talent or gift matters the most in terms of art and drawing. And eventhough it is a part of it, you must actually learn and practice how to draw. Not only how to use different tools or drawing in different techniques, but also how to draw realisticly. This costs much effort and mostly the talent to observe (which you may train as well).

5th grade (1st year in Gym, I was 10-11years old): 
art teacher 1: cool and funny guy with lots of good ideas
My art in school is an amusing proof, because I had lots of fun drawing things and I also had good ideas, but I just drew like in kindergarden, even when I was 11/12 years old. Lukily I had a nice and funny arts teacher with lots of funny themes to draw. He was more like a mentor for me and my classmates because he cared more about the willing to draw as about the quality of the drawings.

prehistoric cave painting (watercolour + charcoal)

wierd scientists discover new plant (watercolour)

galaxy (watercolour)

6th grade (2nd year in Gym, I was 11-12):
art teacher 1
So he always tried to motivate us to learn how to draw accuratley to bring our ideas on paper. We had few people in class that could draw very good and many who weren't interested in art at all and put no efford in it, but I was the only one of his students who was interested in arts, who understands arts and the meaning of it but who couldn't draw at all. 

my dream house in parallel perspective (pencil)

greek temple in parallel perspective (pencil)

7th grade (I was 12-13 years old):
art teacher 2: crazy woman with no idea of style and classic art
So at the end of the second year in Gymnasium I buyed a hiliarous videogame which claimes to teach arts to practice. And it worked. I learnt to draw trees, statues, landscapes and animals with differend (virtual) tools. Suprisingly, it worked in real life as well, as I realized in the third year. The technique to copy subjects with a grid I learnt virtually saved me as she wanted us to enlarge a picture of a comic with the same technique. I realized that I can copy things very good and that this was the first thing I learnt about drawing. (means: if you want to learn drawing, start by copying things like buildings, statues or actual drawn pictures.)

repainting of trees (candle wax + ink)

enlaging a comic panel (pencil + coloured pencils)

8th grade (I was 13-14 years old):
art teacher 3: gentle, older man who cared much about techniques
In this year I learnt much about shading with one pencil and about shade and light on objects. He also lost a very good picture of mine I put lots and lots of effort in. Drew about two hundred seperate 0,4cm long leaves of grass. But that was pretty much the only thing we did. But back then I started to learn how to draw manga.

practicing shading with only one pencil

9th + 10th grade (I was 14-16 years old):
art teacher 1 (lukily, bc he's my favourite)
So, after he didn't met me for two years, he was pretty much suprised that I could draw so good. An I became his no. 1 example of how to draw things (see the 'no. 1 example' mark on the pictures below). And all the others admired my arts, even this special girl who was his no. 1 example in 5th and 6th grade and who I admired the most for her drawing skills. Now this teacher is proud that I chose a extracurricular arts course of his for next year to improve my arts. Which means I have to do my Abitur (final exam at the end of school) in arts as well.

my own fashion boutique poster (watercolours)

drawing classmates (+teacher) (pencil) no. 1 example

drawing sketch for unique painting (pencil)

engraving a picture which ris sceary (woodcut) no. 1 example

fusion of human and animal: spiderwoman (charcoal)

 I hope this was a little bit interesting and motivating ;)
Remember that art consists of practice, a bit talent, knowledge, observing, good ideas and fun!

A comic: Bleeding Heart

In Germany, we've summer holidays now. So this first week I spent drawing a comic/manga. I'd really like to show it here and maybe continue drawing it every holidays. I'll be visiting a part of my family in Hungary next week, so I won't be able to work on it then. And because I'll be really busy studying (the next are my two last years in school) and one page takes 4-5 hours to complete, I'm not sure if I will be able to work on it on normal holidays which dure only 1-2 weeks, but we'll see.
So, let's tell you about the story, finally. It takes place in a world where not only humans, but also vampires and ghosts etc. live. The plot bases on the fact, that every creature has a soul that can be classified into "bad" and "good" souls, which is total nonsense because there are also beings that are in between. Ok, I think the rest will be clear through reading the story.
(Beforehand, I apologize for my lazyness not doing much background, not being careful and ink wrong lines, not caring about the length or flow of hair... and any mistake in language)
Just a warning: people in this world speak very different. Should be a slang or so, but I made it up myself, so sometimes when they talk about themself in past, they might leave out the 'I' and so on. I hope you'll still understand. If not, please tell me, so I can stop doing that the next times.

I hope, you enjoy :). I was drawing a picture of all three protagonists before (and it turned out to be my best manga illustration so far), so I'll be posting that when it's coloured ;)