Sketch 14: Natsu and Igneel

Sooooooo glad to be back after such a long time. Had been busy with exams. Well, that's just how life works right? You wake up, stretch your sore muscles, brush your teeth, open the window to inhale the cool, fresh air--BAM! Exams slap you in face. It takes a whole lot out of you. I came not to realisation, but confirmation that exams are devised in such a way to suck the very essence out of you. It's very similar to the games in Saw(the movie, not the tool). Think about it. It provides you with challenges that you need to solve (at times even puzzles), you are given a limited time to complete everything, and a little of what's inside of you die each time you pass an exam. The only (noticeable) difference is that instead of blood and gore, you get mucus and moist tissues due to the decline in health of the students resulting from sleepless nights.

But all that is over for the year, which I'm super glad about. And finally I get to focus on another sketch. I search through my pencil case for my trusty Pentel Sharplet 5 mechanical pencil, stared down at my sketch book, and froze.

The amount of time spent on memorising facts and figures has led to the deteriorating of the creative side of my mind. I struggled so hard to think of what to draw, and decided to ask my friend *Daryl for suggestions. Almost nonchalantly he sent me a fanart of Natsu and Igneel. Now as you know, I am NOT an avid reader of Fairy Tail (as how I stated in my previous Natsu post) and I didn't even know what was the dragon's name. But I thought: what the heck. Let's get going. 

So, here goes!

Equipment: Pilot G-3 pen 1.0mm, Mechanical pencil 0.5mm, Pilot Wingel 0.38mm, Eraser

So I started to roughly sketch Natsu and Igneel. Natsu took less time compared to Igneel as I was more familiar with Natsu's appearance and (utterly amazing) body (I'm looking at you, fangirls). So after about 30-45 minutes, I came up with this: 

And yes, that expression on Natsu's face was exactly what was pasted on mine when I first received my exam questions. Dat I-HATE-THE-WORLD feeling.

So later on I started to draw the outlines with the Wingel. This took me about 30 minutes. And this was what I got:

Not much difference from the first pencil-made one, but that's all part of the process. The key is to not get too disappointed with the plain look because 60% of the finished work depends on the inking. So after an hour or so, I present to you this:

Thanks for your time and see you in the next one! :D

DFTBA

* yes, that's his real name :)