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

The Cousins

Sorry I don't have anything in between.

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Corrected Line Art.

Photocopied and cut up, taped to my light box.

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Before it was fixed. Back when it SUCKED.

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!

Gosupermodel Wedding Dress Competition

So this particular day I found out that the winner could have their design put into the shop :D

So I'm all over that. I took inspiration from Andre Kim's amazing dresses that he modeled using SuLi from F(x)

Here are some screen shots.

I tried to keep it tight so the least amount of effort would be involved in converting it for supernova. I still don't know how they'll manage that, but I can still dream.

That was the initial mapping out of the skirt. Which I changed later on.

Here I thought I was finished, but it still needed some work. Especially since I know that JR Designers aren't supposed to use 50% opacity at all. So I changed it again, and used some different hair so that the shoulders were more visible.

I think this is the final design. It's currently uploading, and I'm hoping I can get it in time before the deadline. I know it's a little off-center but that's the space available. I didn't want to sacrifice the fullness of the skirt for the sake balance. And I think it looks great anyway. :)

Somebody stop me!

I need a challenge. I should do something like.. 3 sketches a day for a month or something. This is summer! I'm supposed to have all this free time, but I admit, I'm really caught up in making plans, and then anticipating them going into action. I'm trying to get a job, I'm a mod on GSM, I signed up to counsel at a camp for a week in July, and the anticipation makes it hard to start something that would claim any of my time. I end up doing something easy like play *coughPokemonDiamondcough* where I can just veg for a couple hours. Also having my sisters around all the time is very distracting. I'm not lacking ways to use my time, no. My problem is purely priorities.
Today is the day. One sketch before I relax. And maybe one sketch before Bed. *Determined Nod*
Makenai!

New website

I just finished making the first draft of a website for myself. I used wix.com which is a free hosting website that provides you with an editing tool just for flash websites. They give you templates to customize, and they let you start from scratch too. Anyway, here's the link to my little corner of the internet.
Http://wix.com/Beckypenn/Art
Enjoy, such as it is, and comment with any suggestions.