added entry to drawing challenge

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@@ -593,4 +593,34 @@ Then, I followed up by watching [this mikeymegamega tutorial on drawing legs](ht
 
 While the technique is very much appreciated and I think it'll help me immensely going forward, I'm quite glad to see that I evidently wasn't *too* far off with my sketches before watching the tutorial. I kind of already knew where I had to put curves and how the legs should look. Still, the ones I drew post-tutorial look quite a lot better.
 
-I definitely need more practice, but: in theory I have now practiced all parts of the body, and I am now able to draw a complete human being! And I will! Soon.
+I definitely need more practice, but: in theory I have now practiced all parts of the body, and I am now able to draw a complete human being! And I will! Soon.
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+## Day 25
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+<span class="date-marker">2026-03-02, 22:36</span>
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+Today, I had some fun shopping and got myself some art supplies. I bought an A4 pad for larger sketches (all my sketches have been on A5 and sometimes A6 thus far), a few more of those cool coloured pencils, a new sharpener (my previous one doesn't work properly anymore), and I also bought a folder to put all my sketches into! They've kind of just been floating around my desk so far, and I wanted to give them a proper spot to keep them safe, so now I have that sorted too.
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+<SubtitledImage
+    image="25.webp"
+    altText="Pencil sketches. At the top are three pairs of legs, one looking to the left, one from a back view, and one with crossed legs viewed from the front. At the bottom is a drawing of a girl. Her head and her torso are visible. She has shoulder-length hair, green eyes, and is wearing a dress shirt and a red tie. She is looking downwards with a slightly surprised facial expression."
+    subtitle="business mode"
+    alignment="right" />
+
+Today, I did as I said yesterday (for a change) and drew the remaining legs from mikeymegamega's video. It was quite fun and I could notice myself already realising how to draw the curves more or less appropriately, though I don't yet have a proper understanding for how legs should look from different perspectives – hence the practice. I also kept drawing the knees too slim, which resulted in some odd dimensions. I tried fixing that, but they still look a bit odd.
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+I also deviated from mikeymegamega in that I chose to draw my legs wearing socks instead of high heels. I figured I should practice that, since I'll probably draw flat feet more frequently than feet in high heels. This is probably most noticeable in the pair of legs on the right, where the feet are much more rounded off compared to how mikeymegamega drew them.
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+I also wanted to practice drawing the upper half of a character again, just so I don't forget. Plus, I wanted to use my new coloured pencils. In order to do both, I had the idea of drawing a character with a tie, so that I'd have a good use for red.
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+I drew this character while referencing one from the manga drawing book, but I again wasn't following the reference too closely! I tried to do my own thing as much as I could. For instance, I pretty much did the eyes all by myself, I added the ear (with the signature hook I have for some reason grown accustomed to drawing), and the tie wasn't part of the reference at all, so I added that loosely based on random reference images on Pinterest of characters wearing ties.
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+The colours really pop, I gotta say. Those pencils have, if I understand it correctly, oil-based leads which give a really vibrant and consistent finish. They look superb. I also do like giving my drawings only little colour to have it really stand out, though I *may* try to do more colour eventually. I got a brown pencil for hair too, so we'll see.
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+I 100% only drew a tie to use the red pencil, though I did stick with green for the eyes. I like that consistent detail. On the other hand, I would like some change too, so I'll probably draw future characters with other eye colours. I bought a vibrant blue pencil too which I look forward to using.
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+Also: after tracing all the lines with a fineliner, I for once erased the construction lines, and I was honestly kind of surprised by how nice the drawing looked once I did that. I've left them in all my drawings so far because I thought it looked cool to see how I got to the finished drawing and whatnot, but the clean look of the fineliner traces and the colour makes me reconsider that choice.
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+I really gotta give my characters names. I've been thinking about that for a while now, and I feel that [day 18 girl](#day-18) is *definitely* Emilia, and [day 13 girl](#day-13--a-new-hope) *may* be Elizabeth.
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+I'm still struggling with whether or not [day 22 girl](#day-22) is Laura or not.