Dreams - copic contest entry

Sorry for the long break, I've been using Tumblr a lot instead of this blog. My tumblr name is born4catz.tumblr.com so you can see things there, as well as on facebook at facebook.com/beckypennart 

Now then, I worked on this for over a week trying to really perfect it. Busy trying not to stress over it, and having life get in the way in between.  Test after test and really trying to push myself not to push myself you know? I had to just be ME. Do it my way, and use whatever type and brand of products and methods I needed. I don't care about being consistent anymore. I'm an artist, it's what we do. 

cg test

re-sketch

Line art

Products used

finished. 

Lesson learned: there's a time to plan, a time to test, a time to think ahead and choose the best color scheme and media... but there is also a time to just go for it and embrace mistakes. 

I'll carry on from here. 

The hard work is paying off and it's getting a lot of attention, I want to soar up from here. 

Steampunk WIP

So on goSupermodel I was working on a magazine where I can show off all of my wardrobe "looks" and I wanted to do a page entirely for steampunk looks. (I would really love a SP collection soon.)
I needed a background for the looks to be amazing so I started in painterX and got totally angry because it wasn't doing what I wanted which was photoshop. Painter is great I just need to spend more time with it and be less about expectations.
Going back to my tried and true markers, I felt much more at home and ready to tackle my plan. I'm rustier than the titanic but this is a start.

I really need to draw more lol. On the plus side, I just had a bunch of designs released for "fall fashion week" people were able to buy and also win exclusive designs by moi, as well as some of the other JDs.

Sketch dump

  
Some kpop inspired stuff. Some gosupermodel inspired stuff. Other than this, all I've been working on are designs for GSM. and moving! new location should hopefully mean more art??
it's whatever.

Escaflowne & Random

Started trying out eyes, ended up with Varie. I love this series.

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Here's some more random marker doodles I've done.

Processes

ICE

Since I took some pictures of the process, I think I'll try to sum it up with the poor quality phone shots. (Oh also, I was the USA winner of the gosupermodel wedding dress design competition. The final product was released today. So if you join, you can pick one up.:)

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When I started this, I was at our cabin just enjoying a nice weekend. I wanted to make something ornate, and I wanted something that was framed by it's self, so I could fit it on a t-shirt someday. I also like to stick with the art nouveau look, and detailed headpieces. The wings on the shoulders were partly inspired by world of warcraft, and I tried to incorporate as many details as I could. I had a lot of fun drawing the eyes, relying on my eraser to get a white lash effect.

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I was working on regular children's extra wide craft paper xD We had lots of it around so I started sketching on it. It's served me well over the years. I started the skin with skin white and milky white Copic sketch probably. I don't really remember.

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Shaded the skin using probably fruit pink, and started marking the hair with cool gray 0 and 01 or 02.

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Filled in the background and used pale lavender on the hair as well.

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Filled in most everything else. Added blue to her hair, used cool grays and purples on her clothing, filled eyes using frost blue(personal favorite) and purple.

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Filled in more of the background, frame, more of her outfit, headdress, etc. After this point I didn't document it, but I mostly used ink pots and used white and purple ink to finish up the frame.

The End!