Meh friend Alex tagged me.

【Artist Baton】

◆Your name?
Karina, nickname,sometimes Kari.

◆If possible, your age?
15

◆When did you start drawing?
I started drawing in pre-k and 1st grade-ish, but I didn't start drawing mange until I was in 5th grade.

◆Which hand do you use for drawing?
Right

◆Which is easier to draw - male or female?
female usually

◆Which is easier to draw - long hair or short hair?
Both, it often depends on the style of the hair, not the length though

◆Is it easier to draw the head facing towards the right or the left?
depends on what I'm drawing and what I feel like but usually--- facing to the left, that's how I start the picture. By drawing the side of the face facing left.

◆Is it easier to draw the side view of the face or the front view?
Normally front view, for me,its often very hard to do profiles of the side view.

◆What do you have problems in drawing?
hm... most probably the poses, way legs and feet are positioned and the way a person stands. Sometimes I have a hard time with proportions and direction people are facing.

◆What do you like to draw?
People, I hardly draw animals, (though I want to)Fantasy stuff, including the clothing, I love drawing detail. So clothing or armor from like FE, I love, things from games, weaponry ---> like weapons from medieval times (zelda or FE)or stuff like from kh,(weapons [I should say KEYBLADES] with a lot of detail)And finally, recently I have been drawing even more things with details -ahem- 'modern' clothing *cough*

◆Are you a traditional artist or a digital artist?
Both, but I enjoy more of traditional art. For digital I normally only touch up or do backgrounds when I get lazy. I don't usually like drawing with the tablet, only coloring. (I am horrible with TRYING to draw with the tablet. xDD

◆Where do you start drawing from?
The face, almost, always. It helps with proportions and I dunno looks better every time I do it. From then on I start drawing 'in the face' eyes, mouth, nose and start the hair, from there I go downwards. If I ever feel bored sometimes I try to dray at a weird angle, at times like these I start from the thing closest to me. For instance, a picture of someone holding out their hand with flowers I sometimes do the hand that is reaching out and draw from there but I normally don;t that. Takes too long. But something I do, always now, is to the 'skeleton' meaning that I draw the cylinders, lines and stuff where the joints should be (this helps me a lot with proportions)

◆What is your drawing habit that you are aware of?
I get lazy, way too quickly for one. Sometimes I truly hate the way things I do turn out. When I draw people they often look the same, or so I've been told, all the time... xD The guys I draw often, either 1. look like girls 2. look girly or 3. (which rarely happens) look like they're suppose to xDD Sometimes I never finish pictures, either I leave out the background because I got too lazy or I never finished coloring it, but then it could be weeks, months or even a couple of years later (only happened once) I continue it.

◆What do you keep in mind when you do lineart?
I try to always keep my lines 'non sketchy' smooth crisp lines that are clean and I ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND THE TYPE OF PEN I USE FOR LINEART. Cause I hate it when I'm doing the lineart or I just finished it and then I start coloring and it smudges, either my own hand or the color pencil itself.. >: (

◆Any tips for coloring/shading?
Use more then one color. Blend or even mix the colors to have an effect of 'non flatness' (color pencils are good at this but only some) If you really want to blend the colors of colored pencils--- Get water-colored pencils, (you can use water to make it have a water color look [but that's not the tip I'm giving] use it OVER the normal colored pencils, it blends it very nicely if you use it lightly with the right type of c. pencils. I don't like things looking flat, and I like it kind of looking realistic though I can't seem to get to that point... so anything that makes it look not flat, realistic-- shading is the best~--- and is easy if you don;t want color, although with what I said above, you can 'shade' with color ^^

◆How long does it take to finish a piece of art?
Depends on what I am doing, but often if I am coloring a picture-- = LONG TIME, a background that is colored by hand -- = EVEN LONGER But line art doesn't usually take long. But like I said before depends on what I;m doing. One person (no full view) won't take me long but if I draw many people full view, head to feet, now that takes me a
R E A L L Y long time

◆What music do you listen to while you draw?
My i pod or if I am on the computer, i tunes or youtube k, j pop and rock usually (people I AM A FAN xDD) I really love some of these bands... <333

◆How long does it take you to come up with an idea?
Depends. You want a story? And I illustrate it? might take me a while to come up with, but ideas for short things like comics don't take me very long, however drawing them is a whole different story.

◆Your favorite drawing utensils?
A good drawing #2 pencil, black pens, (or other inking pens micron [sakura pens] are awesome, colored pencils, a good brand I get some of mine from faber castell ( I think I got these from a trip down to El Salvador...), or just crayola (BEST RELIABLE THINGS EVER) XDDD Meh water color pencils (Derwent-water color)and the best, epic GEL PENS (from the brand Sakura mostly)I use them for highlights and stuff + _{THEY ARE SO SHINY} ^___^

◆Your favorite color/the color that you use a lot?
I use a lot of blues, greens, greyish colors, brown-goldish colors and skin tones, most definitely.

◆Your favorite style(s)?
manga _{(I would love to draw realistically)}

◆Are you satisfied with your current art?
If I say no, there are people ready to kill me.= me too
But I have to say, nope. I want to get better.

◆What kind of artist are you aiming for?
I guess something in between manga and realistic-ish kind of? Don't know.

◆Thank you.
Now please fill in the next columns by writing the names of the artists that match the criteria.
Artists tagged must fill in this baton. (<-- says who?!)[I'm wondering the same thing... xD]

Anyway if you guys want to go ahead. ^___^
_{and I am really sorry for making some parts really long...}

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Oh and I fixed my tablet btw peoples if you haven;t already heard! Pics will be up VERY soon. Maybe when I get back.