Ryan Leeds

So I just received one of the most insulting personal rejections I've ever seen. Not insulting to me, but insulting to my story.

I was told that I should have made one of the characters in Reformatted Soul male.

Granted, I did strip out the non-binary pronouns to make the story more palatable for the market, but seriously. What the fuck?

Got some sketching done. Told myself I was going to work on some Victor sketches, or possibly some Molly sketches, but I was more interested in doing some Izzy sketches once I actually sat down to draw. I really need to draw more often. I can tell how much my skill has degraded since high school. I also need to go through some basic tutorials to figure out some things, to make it look less cartoony.

Izzy is difficult to draw, considering she has severe burn scars all over the left side of her body. I think I did a decent job showing that, but I realized after I was done drawing that the burns should have been on my right side, so that they would be on Izzy's left. I don't have a scanner right now, and it was sketchy pen on lined paper, so I really have nothing to show for it. She turned out looking a lot whiter than I'd hoped. I still have difficulty defining facial features. Again, more practice.

I still need to scan and upload the picture of Victor I drew. It's probably the only thing I've been happy with wrt to drawing in the last six months or so. That's probably because I'm better at drawing gas masks than I am people, but that's not the point. I'd like to do something that's more of an action drawing of him, possibly when he's more degraded, but I'd like to actually have a pencil before I even attempt.