ART: Gamora (Guardians Of The Galaxy / Zoe Saldana)

This piece was long overdue and initially intended to be part of my time-lapse video series "How I Draw".  However, with the release of Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2, I decided to ditch the video and simply sketch her since it would take less time to complete and publish.

I used my Kurutoga mechanical pencil by Uni which houses a 0.7 HB lead.  I usually start sketches with a 3H lead pencil then go over it with an HB lead but doing so risked ruining the paper's surface especially if I had to erase mistakes a number of times even with a foam eraser. (I am such a huge fan of foam erasers. Really, I am. I swear by 'em)

When it came time to ink the drawing, I used my Staedtler artist pens with varying (0.3 / 0.5 / 0.8) tips.

Once I completed the ink work, I scanned the drawing and colored it using Photoshop.  I used my Intuos Pro tablet by Wacom.  I'm still getting used to it which shows in the final product.  Nevertheless, this is an awesome tool and look forward to doing more (hopefully better) pieces as I get more accustomed to using it.

I finished the piece by inserting a background I found on the internet.  Let me know what you think and if you have questions, feel free to post it in the comment section below.  Till my next post.  Thanks, everyone!