I love seeing other artists’ process, so here’s mine!
I started with a series of instagram polls, because I was out of doodle ideas:
Man or Woman, Victorian or Sci Fi, Plants or Space, Warm or Cool, Floating or Standing, Warm or Cool, Animal Companion or Not.
The italicized ones are the ones that were chosen, so I ran on over to Pinterest to find some good Victorian dresses (at the time, that was in the lead)
This was my favorite of the victorian sketches - I’ll finish it late, with a cool glowing green color palette:)
Then, I moved on to the next page after more realistic studies to play with the shapes. The one below is very nice, and I will finish it in watercolor later. It’s really cool how the sketching process can spawn so many cool ideas:) References lead to inspiration, kids!
playing around with a circular design - a lady pushing away a tree brach, with a fox looking towards her
The pollsters switched the prompt to scifi, so I switched to a sort of android idea - I always love playing with big volumes of hair, especially curly, because of the shapes:)
I like this character, and I like the idea of an android with flowers inside of them. Playing around with floating people and fox shapes… Animals are a weak point of mine!
The red pencil helped me get in the mindset of a “warm” color palette. I don’t know why that helpd me, but it does!
I like the one on the left! The floating, the fox - it has a flow to it that is so lovely. Time to make it BIG!
This might be the smoothest big sketch from a tiny one I’ve ever had…
Finally, I lined the sketch with my colored pens!
I took a picture with my ipad and colored it with procreate, to get across my idea of metal android with flowers in a vase, sort of a greenhouse effect. This might be my favorite drawing of 2021 so far:)
Thanks guys! You can view the speedpaint of it on my youtube here.