7 Day Gimp Challenge- Day 5

By day 5 of the challenge, I got sick of reading tutorial for Gimp. Instead, I wanted to paint. A lot. I ended up painting two “line art” pictures for my own amusement. After some thought, I decided to post only one of them. I like the other painting too, but I’m not ready to post it yet.

Here is the painting…. (Clicking on the picture will take you to the devainART submission)

Do you recognize her? It’s Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) from Doctor Who. I’ve been trying to draw and paint her for years but I ended up hating each drawing and painting I’ve done. I used one of the publicity photos from Season 1 as a reference.

I decided to paint Rose differently than how I painted my Madame de Pompadour painting. For Pompadour, I used many reference photos and pieced together her looks. For Rose, I use one photo as a main reference and two others to check if I was painting her cheeks, eyes, eyebrows, ect. right.

I’m currently coloring her, which used up most of day 6 of the challenge. Also, after how well she turned out, I begin to think of drawing more Doctor Who characters again. I lost my confidence in drawing anyone from Doctor Who earlier this year, so I’m feeling encouraged to try again.