Simone Simons Card Design

Every now and then I pick up someone’s birthday as an opportunity to start a new portrait – and in this case, it’s Simone Simons again. I immediately thought of the metal queen card designs that I had done before as Simone definitely deserves a spot in the list of my favourite metal ladies. As I had just bought myself a new convertible, this also gave me the perfect excuse for trying out Autodesk Sketchbook on it. I had never drawn digitally before, so it was bound to become a challenge right from the start. Doing the first sketch wasn’t so very complicated but getting the shadings right was. It took me quite some time to get used to the new drawing dynamic and although the convertible also reacts to applied pressure changes it’s not quite the same than it would’ve been with a pencil. All of the lines that I drew were either too soft or too harsh in the beginning. I slowly started getting used to it, though, and the final result didn’t look as bad as I had feared. I took the finished portrait and edited it to match the blanco card design, then I added a few extra details and the Epica logo before I was finally done

Materials: Autodesk Sketchbook

Time: approx. 8 hours

Reference photo used for the drawing was taken by: Tim Tronckoe