The life of a digital artist

"The life of a digital artist" - It was a project I was working on the night before the last blog. Fell asleep that night while working on it. The next day I clearly couldn't work on it at all, because, reasons. I wrote about it in the last blog.

I wanted to draw this one for a few days then. I wanted to have this illustration that conveys the diligence of a digital artist, any freelancer to be honest. Well, it could speak for any workaholics from any industry. My brother is a banker and works on codings and creates apps. He is quite like that as well. No more beating around the bushes. The drawing was this:

I won't make this blog longer. So I will just upload the next steps I had taken.

Colouring:

Adding Chair:

colouring the chair:

And for the adding details.

I even coloured the whole artwork and then noticed the head didn't tilt enough to make it for a person who fell asleep. I had to redraw the neck and the hands to give him a more tilted headed look. Ii finished the work before the night. Rest of the works were quite smooth and fast.

The final drawing is uploaded here:

The final product.

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