Shaded Victorian dress

I don't think this one is as good as the linear one, myself. The hands are a bit better, and my hair was really wild that day, but in my efforts to get the jacket the right size, I've exaggerated it. There's also something wrong with the face I can't quite get. I might try this again sometime.

In a Victorian dress

In my spare time, I make Victorian dresses and outlandish hats - I'm putting together a little gallery of them on another blog - hopefully I'll have the more recent additions up and can link to it soon. Now, this drawing is a linear version, and although mostly it's ok - the sleeves are very wide in real life, but the body of the jacket itself is probably a little larger - the hands are this picture's major flaw. I tried it again and coloured it (-ish, it is a black and white dress anyway), spending more time on the hands.

Hands in a mirror three

This one, being in the most simple pose, would probably work the best if I could get the shadows to look right. I don't think there was anything wrong with it when I did it, but they should look further apart at the wrist and round the base of the thumb - that would probably make it more believable.

Hands in a mirror two

This one is probably the most confusing. I tried adding some extra lines here, but it didn't quite work.

Hands in a mirror one

For these three pictures, I got out a smaller mirror, put it down on the table and rested my hand on it in different poses. I used the same shading technique as usual, like the last 'feet in a mirror' drawing. They're not bad, but looking back, I wonder if I should have given them more context by adding an outline of the mirror. Maybe next time.

More feet in a mirror

This one's closer and a lot busier than my other 'feet in a mirror' drawing. I used grey pencils and blended them with white to try and make the shadows more even. Of course, they're not exactly symmetrical, because the one on the left was tilted up slightly more, but that's deliberate - they'd look rather artificial if I tried to make them match exactly.

Face in a mirror

I like this mirror - I think I got it from a fairtrade gift shop - it's handmade from roughly equal bits of mirror, so it's not that uniform when you really see it. All the better for me in the drawing stakes though!