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For one of my last completed drawings of 2019, I decided to try a bit of a redraw of a Kitty Pryde piece I did last year. It’s not an exact duplicate, but rather just another headshot, but I think it’s close enough to provide a decent look into whatever progress I’ve made over the past 18 months. (It also let me revisit her X-Men Gold style, which, so far, I like more than her Marauders look.) It was meant to be a quick one – just a few days rather than a couple weeks -- so I returned to my roots of the amorphous background blob and no fancy borders, though I did take the time to try to find a background color that would emphasize her eyes and skintone (had to use a couple of websites to figure that out). Let me know whether you think I did well in that regard.

Well, in any regard, really.

For comparison’s sake, here’s the last time I drew Kitty, from July of 2018:

Any and all comments, critiques, or tips for improvement are welcome and appreciated!

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Disclaimer: I’m red-green colorblind. Because of this, it’s difficult for me to tell similar shades/hues of different colors apart, and, therefore, I need to work with very limited palettes when I color pieces. For shading and highlights, I’ll start with a gray base and lighten or darken shades from there, and then add a color overlay (and, for some skin tones, attempt to add a blue overlay to make it less “hot”). I’ve often been told to be bolder in my highlighting and shading, and I’m trying to be so, but… sometimes it still seems pretty tame. I’m just saying this in case you mentioned I need to do that on a previous piece – I’m not ignoring you, and I appreciate the input. It’s just not very easy for me to implement confidently.

Description

For one of my last completed drawings of 2019, I decided to try a bit of a redraw of a Kitty Pryde piece I did last year. It’s not an exact duplicate, but rather just another headshot, but I think it’s close enough to provide a decent look into whatever progress I’ve made over the past 18 months. (It also let me revisit her X-Men Gold style, which, so far, I like more than her Marauders look.) It was meant to be a quick one – just a few days rather than a couple weeks -- so I returned to my roots of the amorphous background blob and no fancy borders, though I did take the time to try to find a background color that would emphasize her eyes and skintone (had to use a couple of websites to figure that out). Let me know whether you think I did well in that regard.

Well, in any regard, really.

For comparison’s sake, here’s the last time I drew Kitty, from July of 2018:

Any and all comments, critiques, or tips for improvement are welcome and appreciated!

____________________________________________

Disclaimer: I’m red-green colorblind. Because of this, it’s difficult for me to tell similar shades/hues of different colors apart, and, therefore, I need to work with very limited palettes when I color pieces. For shading and highlights, I’ll start with a gray base and lighten or darken shades from there, and then add a color overlay (and, for some skin tones, attempt to add a blue overlay to make it less “hot”). I’ve often been told to be bolder in my highlighting and shading, and I’m trying to be so, but… sometimes it still seems pretty tame. I’m just saying this in case you mentioned I need to do that on a previous piece – I’m not ignoring you, and I appreciate the input. It’s just not very easy for me to implement confidently.