Here are a few value studies for pieces in progress! Working towards a painting style that I’m really proud of is very rewarding, and I’m looking forward to sharing more pieces with you!
“wrong room”
“swamp gown” look, no one said I was good at titles.
“dressing the princess”
This week is Grape, Orange, and Strawberry!
Grape Goddess
Orange Debutante
Strawberry Agent
and there are so many left! Blueberry, lychee, banana, pomegranate…. mmmmm fruit salad…
I think this month was very successful! I figured out how to make digital art look like marker - I’m especially proud of Day 31. It just amuses me, like something I would draw in church when I was 7 :P
The statue in the first illustration is my dnd character! This is the fist dnd game I’ve played with my sisters, and we and our benevolent dm are having so much fun :)
also, I have new stickers up in my etsy shop! Here they are!
Welp. Here they are. We moved during this month, so getting all these done was pretty tough, but I did it:)
Almost halfway! Woohoo!!
Overall, this month was pretty strong. I feel like I’m entering a new phase of art - like I’m drawing faces differently, and moving more away from such shaped art. This month was so super busy, that I decided to use coolors.co (an online palette generator) to kickstart some daily drawings. As is my way, I started making them way more complicated and detailed, so I was forcing myself to go lineless, to go fast, and to be okay with it being more sloppy. The end of the month was best, though - those simple color palettes? The art of Ally walking up the stairs? and the last one? a good way to make an unfinished sketch look intentional. I’ll have to try it again!
It happened, and it kicked my tail. No pun intended ;)
But the important thing is, I FINISHED. On the last day of May! No catching up for me:)
So, I was inspired by gbsketch on tumblr. They’ve been posting every day for over TEN YEARS. Not quite my goal, but shoot for the stars amirite. Anyways, here’s the art I did for January! Notice how it gets more complex and time consuming as time goes on. You would think it would be the other way, but nooo I can’t do anything simple.
(I’m working ahead because I know myself. She she’s a huge procrastinator and sucker for instant gratification and not to be trusted.)
A couple of cute sketches that turned into my favorite duo of the so far:)
The ball
The proposal
Who else LOVED Barbie movies as a kid? (and now!)
Instead of drawing Disney princesses this year, I draw the main characters of the Barbie movies in the early 2000’s. Island Princess was slightly past my time, but I wanted a nice round 9 illustrations:)
The sketch
The final
Which movie was your favorite? It’s so hard to pick, but mine has to be Rapunzel:)
I have no memory of creating this sketch. Enjoy!
Draw your OCs like this 🤣
I usually kick off the year with a disney princess series (by usually, I mean the past two years). This year, I’m doing a Barbie series on instagram (here!) But, I never posted the disney princesses for 2020 here:)
My thoughts about each of these are below - I am thinking about redrawing some of these for stickers. Whjat do you think?
Hunchback of Notre Dame is SO good, and I like this drawing
I like the flow of thise
I like the dynamic of this, especially compared to the Frozen II drawing
Aww they love each other:)
Brave was good! I came around to it eventually. Give us more feral female protagonists
I love this one, and gave a print to my niece to hang on her wall!
easily my favorite of these. I LOVE the gradiant of black to teal, and the SHAPES
this one could use some reworking, and slightly less detail, I think
I surprisingly like this. It could stand some reworking though
Megara, sass queen. Her background harkens to Hades’ colors.
my girl! I like this, but it would be better with linework instead of lineless art
Definitely my least favorite of these, and the least imaginative! I had a mermaid, and all the shapes that come with it! what was I thinking.
I struggled a lot with Belle’s shape here. I think I could do better nowadays:)
Mulan’s blue dress is my favorite, but I like her ceremonial dress too
what do you think? I prefer the 2021 series, but I think this one has potential for reworking:)
The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir, is a thoroughly excellent series about necromancers in space, a murder mystery, a psychological horror, and just really, really funny. Don’t read if you don’t like beautiful and horrific descriptions of bones, though. Here is the speedpaint on youtube
hhhngg big sword
skull makeup!
Everything turns to vampires in my hands, I can’t help it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Monocolor
Full color
October has been a WILD month! Can I say that I TOTALLY crushed it? I haven’t had to play catch up AT ALL! Did I improve in 31 days?
Inspired by the beautiful Spanish traditional dresses! I’ve found since that my art style works best with limited color palettes (what this one has)
A little Regency-era river date! Ft. a little frog:)
Star crossed lovers! She’s the lady in waiting of the Lady of the Sun, and he’s the King of Night. In other words, color and value contrasts <3
This is my least favorite of the drawtobers I think. My art style is not very well suited to lineless art, but the color palette here is lovely!
The story in my head is that the pirate girl was diving into the sea, looking for stuff on the ocean floor, when she dives in, turns around, and sees a shark mermaid! But they’re friends:) Thus begins a long and lucrative friendship! The shark mermaid finds treasure in the deep, and the pirate girl brings her treasure from land.
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Ursa Major and MInor:) Constellations are really cool in concept, and I’d love to draw more!
An exercise in typography and an instance where the sketch was cooler than the finished piece. However, I’d like to keep at it and maybe do more fairytales!
No, I don’t know where all those wonderful toys and/or snacks went. Don’t worry about it.
What’s through the door? (The fae. Go in :) )
I’d like to have this many dogs and cats
The Queen’s Thief fanart! Attolia and Gen have the best dynamic! Please go read this series by Megan Whalen Turner!
This might be my favorite composition! Circles make the coolest compositions:)
Stair hair! This was my first real foray into layer effects and actually trying to make stuff glow. I really like the result!
Don’t they make the coolest couple? Rococo clothes are soooo extra
The next set will be out whenever October is done! I really like doing these month long series. Do you have any ideas for other month themes?
Stay safe, and have a wonderful day!