=) More an exercise than anything, but I’m pleased with it. I might return to it at some point to add some background and narrative or something.
A little preview comp for a project I’ll be working on soon. :D
An conceptual experiment, mostly =)
Inspired by the Conceptart.org character challenge this week, that being the Leviathan and it’s vessel! I didn’t end up actually doing the challenge, due to being swept up by schoolwork, but I did churn this stuff out. =) I think I’m going to try to marry my concept art to my illustration more often. My illustrations always come out so much richer if I take the little bit of time upfront to dedicate myself to designing the individual elements of the piece, rather than just going in and making stuff up as I paint it.
For this Valentine’s Day, I gift all of you a gift; A painting completely unrelated to Valentine’s Day! Hooray! =D
BAM. I drewed a thing. A very blue and purple thing.
:D
i'm afraid it's very serious: Super Obvious Secrets That I Wish They'd Teach In Art School
I get a lot of emails from illustration students and young cartoonists. Sometimes they ask to interview me for a class assignment, sometimes they’re recent graduates looking for advice on how to transition from art student to professional illustrator/cartoonist. I get emails asking about how I…
All of this advice can also be applied to writing! And it’s really good, sensible, no-nonsense advice! And I don’t follow a lot of it :( especially the “challenge yourself” thing. I am appalling at challenging myself. Hopefully Advent Chronicles will change that a little as limiting the length of each instalment so severely will force me to be concise and interesting. I hope.
Don’t pressure yourself into thinking you’ve got to draw something amazing because if you sit down and think “I’ve got to make an amazing drawing” then you’re just going to end up staring at a blank sheet of paper.
I could stand to be reminded of this about once per day
:D
(via subobo)
Again, not quite the introductory introduction yet, but it’ll probably happen at some point. This whole tumblr thing is foreign and delightful to me, so I’m still sporadically exploring it in chunks of spare minutes.
Once again, to reward you for your (at the very least feigned) interest in my work, another goblin! I’m actually super excited about this one, just because I used a new colouring method on this one. Previously, whenever I tried using the greyscale method of colouring, it would turn out muddy and washed out and gross. I just didn’t get how people could work that way. But yesterday something in my head just clicked, and I suddenly understood how to paint using curves in photoshop. The colouring took maybe five hours, possibly less. I’m really looking forward to experimenting with this more.
The feeling that describes this discovery is something akin to giddiness. I feel like I’ve leveled up, or just tried Nutella for the first time.
I know that I should probably post an introductory entry or something or other, but I’ll get to that later. For now, here’s a goblin! All for you!
For now, I’m Liz, this is the stuff that I draw. I hope you just simply love it.
