style exercise

Today I did a style exercise I found on deviantART. The template is found here. I used my character Summer, but I intend to do this again with a few other characters. I found this a really good way to get to know your character just a little bit better than you did before you completed the exercise...

Green: Summer in my usual style.
Purple: the style of my good friend Jackie. She's known as Lawliet-Cross-Rue on dA. She has this amazing knack for hair...which I most definitely did not capture well. And those are puffy sleeves if you couldn't tell! Haha.
Pink: shouju style. Relatively easy for me. I tried to accentuate her eyes and the sparkly background.
Orange: Disney. Ugh. Disney is definitely not my favorite style...it was interesting to draw it though. The lips were the most difficult part for me. As was the face shape itself. I think her little nose is pretty cute, though.
Blue: realism. HA! I surprised myself. I whipped this out in about 10 minutes. For the most part I believe it's mostly proportional and her hair came out decently well. If I had about 5 hours I might be able to make it look a lot more realistic. Like I said, I surprised myself.
Gold: Pokemon. This one is my favorite. I just want to squish her here!
Red: My good friend Phen's style. It didn't come out as epic as I thought it would. Haha. It's hard to proportion the eyes out like she does!!! I think if I would have kept both of the eyes similar to the smaller one it would have turned out better. Oh well. This is why we practice. All in all I had a good time with this and I do believe it's a good way to practice with your character!

That's all for tonight, kids! Goodnight!