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🌤Maddie’s Journal 2/14/21🌤 Art wip breakdown, and a reference image tip!

hmmmm. what am I up to today!!!

I’m still working on that WIP of combining mediums! It’s really fun!! So for now, i want to break down what i’m hoping to achieve with this. I want to make a combination of pixel art, painting, and collages! oh, also, there’s glitch effects in this!

first, i made the background! It looks like this:

it’s a combinatiom of several photos of grass and flowers, a rainbow, and a picture of clouds which i overlayed this picture:

it’s a glitched photo of sunflowers in a window! but behind some clouds, it looks like electronic rain! Then, I drew the Maddie over the background, and out a layer of white behind her!

heres a peak at some coloring!! there’s some oixel art technique in the eyes with the dithering! i’m trying to reflect the sky in them. I like using rich colors, and im trying to color match with whats already going on in the background. scribbles will come together for color harmony in this eye as i work on it! for all the poxel elements, im using the dot brush in Ibispaint X. I might add detail in an actual pixel art app later though, or use the square tool! that way, the dithering looks a whole lot better.

my next hope is to paint more detail into the background with both pixel and painterly styles. You can see the start of that her with this daisy, which is half image half painted!

i’m also adding a lot of pixel clouds. its fun to color mix just what i need to transition between the edited background and the added painting details.

I love this style, because it’s very me! Nature, weird ideas, and video games. yeah, that’s me alright!!! This is the style i’m trying to develop for my webcomic, Maddie goes outside! it’ll basically be a web comic where i learn topics amd teach tou about what i learned!! i’m going for a kid’s educational host vibe, unintentionally, haha! It would be really fun to eventually animate an episode of it. would that art take forrreeeeever to animate? yeah!! but thats part of the fun. I could make music for the background too!!! ah, i would feel like louie zong. the dream!! i would love to introduce orher characters that help introduce you to subjects!!! like, a science turtle. Oh my goodness, and imagine shadow rotoscoping these into sprites! ah, the animation technique nerd in me is flying out ✨⭐️⭐️⭐️

An Aditional Note about Reference Images!

alright, last thing i had to mention!!

If you’re like me, you have a very difficult time focusing enough to make out details on references! my dysautonomia messes with my vision and makes it kinda blurry. it gets confusing.

so, while drawing this hand holding an umbrella, I discovered something...

Tada!!! If you invert the image and crop to just what youre trying to look at...it can be really helpful!

going back and forth between inversions can really help you pick up on details and contours!!! Thank you picsart art hack. you are my valentine.

okay, i need to nap to refresh my fundraiser brain!! Have a nice valentine’s day everyone!!

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🌼Maddie's Journal 2/13/21🌼

Today was overall a good day!! My health is the worst it's been in years, though :( I can barely sit up. I'm trying to take it one step at a time, small physical therapy exercises, small meals, cleaning just a little bit. I mostly need to rest!!! But make sure my body isn't degrading while I'm resting.

I've been having lots of fun trying out different pixel art and multimedia things!!

Right now I'm working on stuff for my comic, maddie goes outside!! I've been stuck inside the house so much from my illness, so it's about me learning things about the world outside! It's a combination between pixel art, painting, and stock images. It's super fun!!!

Tomorrow I'm gonna try to do some pixel art studies, it's going to be super fun!! I can go do it laying outside, too!!!

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Hi!! I'm Maddie, @mahougirlmaddie !! I'm 18, I love learning and creating, and I love making friends!!

Here I'll be journaling my thoughts on all sorts of things, like music methods, art techniques, and other things!! Nice to meet you!!

My other accounts:

@mahougirlmaddie main account on all social media!

@rainbowdev26 gamedev social media!

@clearskiesart my art blog!

@maddiegoesoutside my web comic!!