This is a profile picture I do for myself! I’ve drawn some as commissions for other people before, but for some reason have never considered making my own up until now :’)
I made this using Procreate on my iPad, it took me roughly 2 days to complete, as I really really wanted it to look as good as it possibly could. I’m pretty proud of how this turned out, I really love it.
It started out as a sketch, like this, just figuring out the way I wanted it to look and the layout of the drawing.
I then changed the background colour for the first time, to a soft yellow colour, and refined the sketch lines.
I then changed the background colour again as I felt like the soft light purple fit my aesthetic a lot more, especially with the ghosts in the background, and it stands out nicely with my half green half black hair :) whenever I draw bodies I really, really love drawing all shapes and sizes, and as someone who is on the chubbier size and is quite insecure due to perfection being shown constantly on social media, it’s important to myself to draw my body as it is, rather than being tempted to draw myself a lot slimmer. I have a health condition involving my spine, and have a little bump towards the end of my spine so I always include it in drawings of myself, too. Having been ashamed and disgusted with my body, sometimes still to this day, including my body as it is in pretty drawings makes it feel more normal :)
I finished refining my sketch to a way I want it to look. I love ghosts and love coffee so I wanted to include them hehe.
I started colouring in my hair, and the little ghosts and my tattoos. I also love eye bags !!!! I think they are so so cute, including eye bags is definitely a staple in my art. I also added little dots around the drawing as I think it’s a nice little touch. Also, elf ears! Unfortunately, I don’t have actual elf ears irl, but a girl can dream…
I coloured in the skin and made it look slightly blotchy to reference my never ending eczema hahaha, I think it looks cute :) initially, I was going to make the top dark purple to match with the background, however I did end up changing it to black.
I finished the colouring, and added little white highlights in the hair, skin, eyes and ghosts!
I’m so, so happy with this, I’m excited to do more in this style.
Thank you for reading!