OH I'm REALLY Behind Now!

Only 1000 words laid down on the page yesterday. At least the first 700 words were flowing easy, but I could not for the life of me get to 1667 words last night.

What I did manage to accomplish was another PiBoIdMo idea and I got started on the final sketch before the oil painting of lil Red.

Because I like this image so much, I make make a final piece of artwork out of it. MAYBE, and it might be a picture book haha.

As for the Lil Red piece, I need to find a better way to scan! It is pretty big, square but big. Gotta find better ways to scan this one. 

I WILL post again tonight (I didn't post last night, I blame American Horror Story ) and type up another excerpt.

OI, another day of creativity. 

Enchanted Contest

Yay! Another contest! No! I haven't won any yet!

Annnd that's it for the exclamation points. 

The next SCBWI Draw This theme was "Enchanted". If there are any members out there who just so happen to see this post and have not entered into the Draw This yet, DO IT. Just look at how much I'm flailing around trying to get decent work together each month, you should be able to do it no problem!

My idea was an enchanted dress and I personally loved working on this piece. The painting is completely digital with my line work (I'm starting to really like working this way) and because this was digital I was able to paint different color themes quickly to see which one I liked the most. What I have here is just the blue and the final yellow. I might make a pink and a green one for more digital painting practice. 

Is It Ever Finished?

I don't know if I'll win, but after showing some people and getting feedback on small things it was well worth going back to this piece. Just a little lighter, eh?

Space themed! :D Yay!

Another contest! Due the third thursday of for this contest here! I love science fiction and hopefully that'll show in the final piece. If I don't win again, hey, I'm getting my process down pretty well. Starting out I thought I just had to make a few sketches, think about a plethora of ideas that I'll never complete and then paint.

WRONG.

It takes a process.

So of course I always start out traditional but I have found ways that digital has helped me, especially with value and color planning. This first image was the beginning to an end. I like that space ship and the character slowly creeping off into the unknown land.

Then after this I added more to the story. Can you see the little guys near the bottom? Very rough sketch (I'm miss my tablet! poor broken tablet...) but I just really wanted to know where that light was going to be and how dark the mountains should be against the night sky.

Will update on this piece! Illl probably change a dozen times before the finish, but I'm as confident as I can be in where the work is going. ^_^

For The Nightlight Land

yes, I AM working on things...I promise! With the overwhelming amount of work and drawing and writing and researching I'm doing I still want to make my blog Draw it Again be about re-drawing everything till a final feels final.

Anyway, I've finished the PiBoIdMo successfully now onto the the 12x12! OF COURSE I have drawings for these. I can't write without drawing (and in some cases I can't draw without writing!) so here are a couple sketchbook layouts and pieces of story building.

New Post Card~

New post card! (Its still grey! oh well) About time I came up with a new one. 

Owl Turning into a fish!

In progress work! This was drawn with ink, pen, and graphite for tone study. I plan to create a finish with acrylic and colored pencil.

forest view

Again, the original looks better than my scans. I will scan it again!

First of the Fish

Need to fix some things with the scanning process, but here is a piece of the Boy and the Ever Changing Forest Being.

hahaha...ha. I'm FINISHED. I declare it now before I decide I'm not and end up trying to fix something else. I added more lights, more darks only just a bit because I didn't want heavy contrast in lights and darks. The sea is the darkest on the finished one (the left one! >_<) and the lightest points bounce back and forth between the ship's sail and through the animals. I didn't want a light focal point and a lot of the time the lightest may come with the object in the foreground, I wanted the focus back and forth in a fluent motion between the background and the foreground.  I usually focus on the fact that an image is a flat space so many times I will forget that tone matters. it does, i just forget sometimes is all...