#my drawing process

[supertrashycolors]

In the event Lotus fully reads the posts under this tag, congrats on 5k! You and your awesome art deserve it!

On a second somewhat related note, here is my personal contribution to @lotus-pear's DITYS! As far as my process goes I tend to sketch things on paper and import a picture of the sketch into a free drawing app I've got, then do the coloring and rendering on there. I hope you all like the drawing despite some changes made, I worked pretty hard on it and I'm very proud of the work I've done.

Also, in truest "Ace's ADHD" fashion I started this two days ago, and thus three days before the deadline, in combination with my schoolwork I originally though I'd fudged this and missed the cutoff, but here I am finishing a whopping three hours before the deadline.

[faytalepsy]

Process of my HEX Gift

I finally remembered to take a few screenshots of my progress stages and I always wanted to do a walkthrough post so here we are!!

I did not have a specific prompt from my giftee, except for the ship which was Silrah so I decided I wanted to draw a cozy romantic Christmas scene.

Which totally showed in my first sketch...definitely... My first sketches mostly look unrecognizable and there is no real system for them because it's just lines for my brain to visualize where I want everything to be. Sometimes they look like this, sometimes they are more light/shadow inclusive. The next step was to work out the poses for Farah and Saul and as you can see, I was struggling. 🤣

When I finally found the pose I was looking for and fleshed out some elements in the background it was time for one of my absolute favorite parts.....that I forgot to screenshot....THE VALUES Which is me trying to figure out the lighting by blocking in light and dark areas with various shades of grey. But because I forgot to take a screenshot (and the value layer that I normally keep until the end for reference disappeared into the void of procreate) we will skip straight to the colour! I very roughly block in the areas with the colours I have in mind to see if everything fits and change what I don't like yet. When that is done I now have a finished concept which I need to refine and then paint!

And now I reached the point of actual background design which was HARD. I looked at many pics of Farah's headmistress' office to try and get a feel for what items might be in her private suite. The mantle of the fireplace looked very empty even after I added the little astrology magic thing and the flowers so I decided to add a circle just like the ones in her office as @septemberrie deducted. I also played around with the design of the fire guard because I wanted it to have that elegant whimsical fairy vibe. I added a lamp inspired by one from Sims 4 and a book in the foreground to hide the awkward angle they are sitting at. For the frame on the wall, I wanted a moon-themed design but it took me a while to figure it out, which is why I left the frame empty for now. Then it was time for lineart and actually sketching in the elements I wanted to be in the background. I usually set my colour or value layer and the sketch layer to 20% and draw over it.

You might also notice that the wrapped sword disappeared...which I regret to this day because I simply forgot to paint it into the rough lineart and only remembered when Skye asked what's supposed to be in the remaining present. Maybe I will add it at some point because now Saul has no present...except for Farah. But the square box present was meant to be Saul's present to Farah and originally I wanted a jewelry box but it was too small to see so I just....put a bigger box. Creativity *sparkles*

Another thing is that from the rough line-art to the nice line-art (yes I always draw my line-art two or three times.....even though line-art is my least favorite stage probably) the Christmas tree is losing a lot of ornaments. Originally I wanted to put in way more stuff like small straw stars or figurines but after painting a million tiny branches I started regretting every life decision that brought me to this point so I simplified the tree. A lot. In the end, I don't regret that because I think it fits them even better. Silrah don't strike me as people who go all out on Christmas and rather just decorate small and tastefully (given they would even celebrate because Otherworld= different culture, but we ignore that piece of worldbuilding for this Christmas-themed drawing)

Next I block in every area on a separate layer so I can alpha-lock them for the painting process. At this point I was getting too annoyed with the tree because painting it was a pain in the ass so I started shading and painting in textures and finishing everything else before even continuing to block in the tree.

The whole image was still too cold at this point so I went in with one of my favorite parts: atmosphere and then lighting bringing it all together and making the painting shine! Painting light is so much fun and I definitely want to learn more about lighting and structure to get better at it but I really love it when someone compliments the light in my art!!

I also finally added the title of the book in the front. I wanted it to be something about magic that Farah would read and looked at various old book covers with pretty lettering. I decided on "The Story of Magic" because I found a very pretty-looking reference cover with exactly the letters that I needed to spell.

And then....something was still missing......THE TREE. (I didn't take a progress picture at that stage that's why it's already in the pics up there but in the end I still had to draw the light on the branches and after doing about four or five of them I decided the effort was not worth the result and did the light reflection very very roughly. But I don't think anyone except me really notices.

And tada the finished Christmas drawing!

[clangenrising]

I am very obsessed with the way you draw grass (as an artist that struggles with nature). What program do you use to draw and is the grass a brush you use?

I use Clip Studio Paint and the grass brush I use is, I think, included in the default effects brushes. I apply a border in the layer property tab and then stack several layers to achieve a look where outlined grass over laps.

Good luck!! I hope that helps!

[blueboxbeagleart]

What did you use your create the family tree specifically? I’m feeling inspired ☺️❤️

I used Microsoft Word’s SmartArt hierarchy tool to figure out the spacing of the names. I took a screenshot of the Word document and imported it into Clip Studio Paint to make the final design.

I added the fancier text on top of the screenshot. I used the shape tool to draw the lines. I used the watercolor edges layer effect to add the “ink bleed” effect to the lines and text. Finally I hid the screenshot layer and added a paper texture to the background.

[kristen-draws]

My drawing process 🌚🌝

[almaadst]

For the ask game: 2, 4, 11, 16

11. Favorite comment you've ever received on your work?

Oh, it's a hard one! I rarely get comments on Tumblr, but when I do, I love them all ｡ﾟ(TヮT)♥♥ I will not pick a specific comment but I like it when ppl highlight what part of the art they like the most or when they notice little details I do, when they write "I dunno who it is but I love the art", make jokes about what they see or ask questions if it's my OC <"D In the past, I got really excited when another artist I admired made nice comments about my art ;w;

16. What’s the most daunting part of your process? Ex, planning, sketching, lineart, rendering, etc.

I don't think I would call any of the stages of drawing as "daunting". They all have moments that I like and moments that are hard. But the stage that is the hardest for me I think is the preliminary sketch stage which includes also planning and writing ideas. It's hard 'cos I have to THINK (ノω＾、) I try to come up with the best poses ideas and composition wise ;w; Once I write down some ideas, I have to figure out how to loosely sketch them - I make approx. 10 sketches with different poses/angles and then I have to pick 2-3 which I clean enough and send to the commissioner - This whole process takes me up to three days 'cos I easily get tired and overwhelmed so I deiced to make smaller stages of it so it looks like that:

1st day - writing down details, writing different ideas, making a Pinterest inspiration board

2nd day - making loose sketches (up to 10)

3rd day - picking 2-3 sketches, cleaning them up, and sent to the commissioner

Sorry for writing so much! ｡ﾟ(TヮT) The other two questions were asked by someone else so you'll see them answered in another post soon but thank you very much anon for taking part in the ask game!

[trinrose3]

Here’s a video of a tiktok I made that’s just the drawing process and the notes that went into the design

this took me so long cause tiktok UI sucks ASS and I couldn’t figure out how to scrub through and watched the whole thing multiple times just to edit each text 🫠 I figured it out tho….when I was fucking done with it 😭

[seagiri]

when did this happen???

[cordspaghetti]

some more of these two

[ruporas]

dragon meat, you, and me

[rapidhighway]

i've been beating myself up for not drawing any full illustrations but i was inspired by music yesterday :] (don't tag as ship 👍)

[kelogsloops]

Another little sketchbook piece, experimenting with low light and a glow effect. Been loving these light-focussed works lately!

🎵 Blue Wednesday - Cascadia ft. Dillan Witherow

#brbchasingdreams

prints | tutorials

[mienar]

the wandering painter, part one

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[machinerot]

[luppiart]

Hihi haha hoho huhu *im insane

[kanderwund]

Made back in August 2022 for the 'draw the slugcats' thing.