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Thierry Mugler’s Costume for Lady MacDuff from the 1985 production of ‘The Tragedy of MacBeth’

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Corgi, Kitten, Dragon, Griffin <3

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My entry for this month’s Character Design Challenge! The theme is “Fashion Show Extravaganza!” Wanted to go for a nature type of theme with a butterfly shape for my character’s outfit, with some hints of fairy and goddess vibes. I really like how this turned out!

I rendered a lot of material’s I’m not familiar with, such as gems and silver. It was really challenging but I’m happy I overcame them to finish this piece!

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Welcome Home Preparations~

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Another update on my Little Mermaid illustration! I’m liking how it’s turning out so far. I’m debating if I should add more to the background or not.

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I made this series of panels / faux comic “excerpts” as a sort of gag based on the first RE 8: Village : Maiden demo.

What if the titular maiden from Resident Evil: Maiden demo was Fiona from Haunting Ground?

Escaping a dungeon/castle, a character named Daniela, and werewolves allow for ridiculous excuse here.

I guess basically, a strange cross-over and reminder that Haunting Ground was a thing~ haha

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HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (2004) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

concept sketches / final result

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An update on my design for the monthly Character Design Challenge. Might adjust the post some, and still need to figure out the background.

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Visual development and background art by Disney art director and background artist Donald Towns.

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“You Are Not Alone”

I’ve posted this before on my old tumblr back in 2016, but I feel like I need to post it again.

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Finally got The Little Mermaid sketch finished, dinglehopper, bag and Flounder included!

This sketch had a lot of challenges, but I’m happy I overcame them. Flounder was surprisingly difficult to draw, but that could be i’m not used to drawing anthropomorphized cartoon fish.

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Some face shape practice I did a while back.

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Guess who!

This is a WIP of Ariel from The Little Mermaid. I had the full body sketch down, except for some reason, clip didn’t save the bag and fork in her hand. I still wanted to share something for today, so here’s a closeup of her face!

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Carry them home one last time.

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Sketch and Concept art of my entry I’m gonna make for this months Character Design Challenge on Facebook. I was aiming for a fairy/nature/goddess design and I’m very happy with how she turned out. Excited to get started on the sketch of her.

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Quick little video tutorial! This is a method I use to block in shapes when I’m fighting the urge to polish my lineart at an early stage, especially in rough concept art that doesn’t actually need polished lineart.

I group two layers in photoshop—a rough sketch, and a flat color—and then carve out the negative space by painting into a mask on the group, instead of filling in the positive shapes. From there I can start painting and adding shading into that group, knowing that I’ve already locked down a good initial silhouette for the object/character:

It feels like oil painting, and I end up finding silhouettes/shapes in a way I wouldn’t if I was obsessively cleaning up the linework first. Digital art has a tendency to veer towards cleanliness/polish, so I love finding little opportunities for happy accidents and a bit of mess!

I used it on my unicorn piece last month, for instance, which I think would have lost a lot of its dynamism and charm if I had worried too much about doing a full ink pass:

Hope this is at all helpful!  It’s not a method I use 100% of the time, but it really helps move my process along when I do need it 👍🏼