After years of not drawing anime characters using just plain sketch pad and pencils, I finally decided to try it again. Since I’ve been meaning to draw Naruto (my fave anime nowadays) characters, I made two drawings. One finished last night. The other just a while ago.
I used to have lots of pencils in different shades (6H-6B) to use for my anime drawings before. However, people love to borrow stuff from me and always forgets to return them. That’s why in these two drawings I only used one exam grade pencil and a drawing book I bought for project use. The paper isn’t as thick as the one I used for my Sailormoon drawings so quality isn’t really good. Also, eraser marks are really noticeable esp. the line in Itachi’s cape. Made a line there to end the drawing and then decided to just continue ’til the end of the paper. Ugh! Whatever I do the marks are very, very noticeable. =( It’s also difficult to do the shadings as I only have one pencil to use unlike before.
I have some Naruto pictures/walls here in my lappie and used them as basis for drawing on my drawing book. I can’t remember where I found them really so credits to whoever made the walls/images where I based my pencil drawings. =)
Anyway, I don’t think they’re quite good after years of not doing pencil drawings but I’m glad I managed to draw two. Here’s my drawing of two of my fave characters: Uchiha Itachi and Yondaime Hokage. I just noticed Yondaime’s hair is quite unbalanced compared to the image I used in my guide. :p
Edit: I just finished drawing Naruto in Sage Mode. =) Next characters I want to draw are Kakashi and Gaara.
You might ask why I’m using just paper and pencil. Hehe. Well, I’m not really good with drawing this kind of stuff (anime) in graphic applications so it’s easier for me to just draw and scan and then later on I can trace and color this using graphic software. Also, I have a small drawing tablet here which until now I still have trouble using. :p But I’ll definitely try again next time. 
