Look into my EYE!

Totally out of order, but here is the very last time lapse from my Dumpster Diving Fairy story. This time its a magpie peeking into their dumpster and finding an unwelcome guest.


Done in Clip Studio Paint.

Music Credits: An Island Newly Awoken by MusicLFiles Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6287-an-island-newly-awoken License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

YIKES!

Here we go again! Time lapse of a Thell Illustration. This time she is in SERIOUS TROUBLE! What Happens Next? How will she ever make it out? LE GASP!

Done in Clip Studio Paint.


Music Credits: An Island Newly Awoken by MusicLFilesLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/6287-an-island-newly-awokenLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Ew! Stinky!

Whoops! It’s taken me a bit longer to edit these process videos and get them out than I intended, but I am on it! Here is another Thell Illustration Time lapse.

This time she’s stepped on something truly HORRIFIC and gross. How will she ever recover from the mental scarring?

Done in Clip Studio Paint.
Music Credits: An Island Newly Awoken by MusicLFilesLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/6287-an-island-newly-awokenLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Time lapse: Thell getting some Colour!

Do you want to know what live streaming is good for? That’s right, content! And here is some of that content, conveniently smooshed together and sped up for your viewing pleasure. 🙂


Won’t be long now and Thell the Fairy will have all her illustrations done and ready! Annnndd…. then I just need to edit her story all over again. 😉


Music Credit:

An Island Newly Awoken by MusicLFilesLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/6287-an-island-newly-awokenLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Alice in Wonderland: Painting

Finally, it’s time for painting. I don’t have much to say about my process. I keep things fairly simple. No special tricks or magic tools, just a bunch of familiar steps built over years of painting practice. 

Most of my paint is Windsor and Newton Professional Acrylic. I do have a couple of tubes of  Galleria (Windsor and Newton’s student range) as well as some Atelier tubes, but for the way I work, the Windsor and Newton Professional range feel the best.

For brushes I use a large, square to wash in the background, but the rest of the painting is done alternating between three differently sized round brushes. As for the actual technique, I can best describe it as layering on thin washes of colour and softly (but quickly) blending lights into darks until I get the desired gradient.

In future, I would love to video the whole process, but I don’t really have the right setup for it. For now, I can offer a photographic journey.

Next up: The Final Painting

Alice in Wonderland: The Sketch

After hashing out the idea for my Alice illustration in a few rough doodles, I jump right into the final sketch. This sketch is something of an exploratory process. I’ve got the basic idea of how I want the image to look, but I haven’t worked out the finer details yet. There is a lot of back and forth with erasing and drawing and erasing again, particularly in areas like the hands where getting the pose just right can be tricky

The sketch is A3 in size, done on an A2 sheet of Canson Artists Series Drawing Paper, 220GSM. I used a 6B graphite pencil for the entire sketch. I find I can get both really light and really dark with 6B pencils and don’t have any need to switch between pencils. The final trusty tool is the kneaded eraser.

Here are some shots of the process with the final illustration at the end.







Next up: Transferring the sketch to canvas and getting ready for painting!