Newly Launched Thisisstar.com!
Hey everybody!
This is the beginning of a whole new era for my website, Thisisstar.com, because from now on I’ll be updating the front page regularly through the magic of WordPress.
This means that I'll be posting blog entries regularly on the front page of my website.
To be clear, no, I'm not leaving Livejournal...but I'll be updating more regularly about professional stuff and art related things on my site and saving the more personal stuff for my LJ.
What's exciting is that I'll be posting things like progress images of my work...which I've never done before, ever!
I’ve also put up a bunch of new work on the rest of the website, so make sure to check out my updated portfolio.
For a little while, I'll be cross posting my updates from my site onto livejournal, but after a bit I'll only be posting them on my site.
Here is one such entry! Feel free to comment here, or on my site.
This image is for the book I'm doing with my friend, the most excellent Nubby Twiglet.
I am drawing based off her photoreference, and She is doing layout for the book.
Step One: Outlines.
Most of this was pretty simple, but I had a hard time with the necklace. I wanted the lines to look really clean so it would come across as plastic more convincingly.
Step two - Rudimentary coloring.
Flat coloring, with a little ink spatter to make it look more organic. I do all my work digitally, so I often try to work in elements of the hand-drawn to give the image more life.
Step three - Shadows
This was many hours of building up shading. ugh. This was one of the first images I did using the pressure sensitivity on my tablet to control the opacity of my brush strokes. It's really, really easy for this coloring method to look super-digital in a way I don't like at all, so I usually take a really long time. I'm really happy with the shadows on the mouth.
Step four - Highlights.
Only minor changes on the skin tone, but the lipgloss is much improved.
Step 5 - Final Touches.
The original photoreference nubby gave me just had a black background, but I decided that it needed a little something so I drew some strands of hair in. I added a little more ink spatter, this time in grey, to break up the background.
& that's it!
xoxo,
Star
This is the beginning of a whole new era for my website, Thisisstar.com, because from now on I’ll be updating the front page regularly through the magic of WordPress.
This means that I'll be posting blog entries regularly on the front page of my website.
To be clear, no, I'm not leaving Livejournal...but I'll be updating more regularly about professional stuff and art related things on my site and saving the more personal stuff for my LJ.
What's exciting is that I'll be posting things like progress images of my work...which I've never done before, ever!
I’ve also put up a bunch of new work on the rest of the website, so make sure to check out my updated portfolio.
For a little while, I'll be cross posting my updates from my site onto livejournal, but after a bit I'll only be posting them on my site.
Here is one such entry! Feel free to comment here, or on my site.
This image is for the book I'm doing with my friend, the most excellent Nubby Twiglet.
I am drawing based off her photoreference, and She is doing layout for the book.
Step One: Outlines.
Most of this was pretty simple, but I had a hard time with the necklace. I wanted the lines to look really clean so it would come across as plastic more convincingly.
Step two - Rudimentary coloring.
Flat coloring, with a little ink spatter to make it look more organic. I do all my work digitally, so I often try to work in elements of the hand-drawn to give the image more life.
Step three - Shadows
This was many hours of building up shading. ugh. This was one of the first images I did using the pressure sensitivity on my tablet to control the opacity of my brush strokes. It's really, really easy for this coloring method to look super-digital in a way I don't like at all, so I usually take a really long time. I'm really happy with the shadows on the mouth.
Step four - Highlights.
Only minor changes on the skin tone, but the lipgloss is much improved.
Step 5 - Final Touches.
The original photoreference nubby gave me just had a black background, but I decided that it needed a little something so I drew some strands of hair in. I added a little more ink spatter, this time in grey, to break up the background.
& that's it!
xoxo,
Star