Lazy Monday Afternoons

Since my domain’s (CrazYanka.com) host is currently facing problems, I will be temporarily using this space to vent/rant/express/whatnot.

Nothing much has been happening in my life recently. Aside from going to school and sleeping the nights away, I haven’t been doing much. The only times I get to go out into the sunshine is when I need to do laundry or buy food, and it’s been more than a month since I’ve been inside a mall. Since I have quite a lot of free time, I’ve been doodling and experimenting in Photoshop and writing new and/or revised chapters to my yet-to-be-published-novel Blunt. Recently I’ve been practicing how to use the pen tool, and a few days ago I tried using it for an illustration and a photograph. No tutorials were followed for these two, and I didn’t use any references (other than my own hands and facial expressions for the drawing.)

Also, yesterday I decided to experiment how to achieve this “effect” I’ve always wanted to try out, and I’m pretty happy with how everything turned out considering that it’s my first time trying to do something like this :)

I was requested by a friend to make a tutorial on how I did it, and I posted it on my tumblr page here.