My little sister you guys!
Ok so I have a 12 year old sis who I think draws AMAZING and I'm just generally incredibly super proud of her. Last night i made a post (https://imgur.com/gallery/DLrkG) with two pictures of her drawing the above sketch and a surprisingly large amount of people were calling it fake due to how she holds the pen... anyway here is said pen and pen grip in action... Ok so- yes, it is a little different but that's how she learned as a toddler and she's comfortable with it and the 'proper' way didn't stick so just let the kid be happy and hold her pen however she wants guys And to whoever said it's traced- dare you to find an original. She uses her own face for broad reference for portraits and poses but then changes hair/ feature shapes as she goes along.
Someone had commented there's no way a kid could drew eyes like that...she's actually really into eyes she literally sometimes draws Only eyes. Like I've found sketch pages just filled with eyeballs.
She's been dabbling in watercolor recently. we've both actually been doing a little side project of 'alternative fairy tales' more along the original story lines or 'what if's'.
Here's another one of those- story being 'what if Ariel was more like the traditional kind of Siren and lured people in with her voice to kill them, and the sea witch was actually the good guy and took her voice out to save them?' hey, girl's gotta eat! If you zoom on her you can actually see that the red is a wound and not her hair. My sister made my brother pose for the 'prince' on our (narrow) kitchen bench, poor kid had to pretty much hold a plank for 20 minutes.
I love when they give her crayons and the kids coloring menu at restaurants. pshhhh what is this amateur hour?
Here's another doodle of me she did. This will forever be on my bedroom door.
when she asked me why I was taking pictures of her bedroom walls I told her that I'm arguing with the internet.. she replied with 'wow you thrive on pettiness'. ...fair. I also told her she can only view the posts when I'm done defending her honor.