I know it's been months, but here at last is my first attempt at drawing Beatrice. I also mean to draw her as a chibi as I described in this post. Eventually. I keep getting sidetracked with other drawing ideas.
I'm definitely going to be working on this more. She might look that calm when's she's alone, but she'd look more spirited around Adrimond. I like how her hair came out, but I messed up the coloring. Next time I'll probably shade it in pencil rather than hurrying to color it. She's not wearing her hairbow because I got frustrated trying to draw it. (She'd be pleased by this development, I'm sure...) Also, next time I'll change her dress, add more detail, make it more Steampunk. And hopefully find a better picture to use as an example for drawing wrinkles than one of a t-shirt.
I'm learning to draw manga/anime. I really want to be able to draw pictures of my characters. I watched this video, thinking I could follow the way Mr. Crilley does it to make my own drawing of Beatrice giving Adrimond a kiss on the cheek (he would be SHOCKED).
(It's long, but you could skip to the end and see what I mean.)
Then I realized I have no idea how to draw the dress that she wears. It's her uniform from her job as a waitress, an emerald-green dress made of satin-y material. I wasn't sure what the neckline style would be called, so I did an image search for "green dress" and came up with this. It's exactly the style, if not the same color or material. Knee-length A-line skirt, and I think I figured out that it's a sweetheart neckline with short sleeves. (Correct me if I'm still confused... I'm almost as bad as Mr. Crilley at knowing what to call fashion-y things sometimes. :P )
I also found this, which I LOVE. (Beatrice would so hate it, floaty things aren't her style.)
I haven't gotten to Adrimond's clothes yet, but he wears a vest suit sort of like the one Patrick Jane wears, only brown and cream, and pretty old and threadbare because it's from a secondhand shop. He has a long coat too, also brown. I could probably just use the one in the video as a guide if I want to.
Dude. Stop. Staring. At. Me! :P
His pockets are always full of random tools, but he doesn't wear goggles, fortunately for me, because I know that would be harder to draw.
I will post the drawing when I'm done. . . even if it's bad! (I hope it won't be!)
