#Process

[fieldsparrowstudio]

hey thanks for all the new followers from this piece! I thought it'd be neat to share a bit of my process on this one.

A lot of my work is for the music industry, and this piece was originally for a local festival that unfortunately got cancelled. The venue for the festival had a vintage furniture shop inside of it, and that kinda inspired me to look into older music players. I've always thought reel to reels looked really cool, and the wood grain on a lot of the retro ones made me want to include some woodpeckers, and the rest just kinda came together.

This is the original thumbnail and then a cleaned up digital sketch. Usually I sketch everything traditionally but I wanted to try out the perspective tool in Clip Studio for the first time. From here, I printed out the line art of my digital sketch onto some transparency film so I could use carbon paper to transfer over the sketch onto Clayboard to ink the piece.

If you're not familiar with clay board it's basically a thick illustration board that allows you to gently scrape off layers of clay to revel white underneath your ink work. I don't use it for every project but I really love the line quality you get with it.

From there, I'll scan back in the finished ink drawing to color it inside Photoshop. The colored digital file is what the original post is. While I'm coloring the piece, I'm using individual layers for each color and trapping them as I go to make the final screen print come together easier.

This is the actual final piece, a 4 color screen print on off white card stock. At some point, I want to dedicate a post to how each layer interacts with each other, in this piece the red is printed on top of the brown to create a dark red in the leaves. This print sold out last holiday season and I'm hoping to have it restocked sometime this spring.

Anyways, thanks again for checking out my work. I hope this is formatted ok, I haven't written a tumblr post in like a decade. Ok bye

"waiting for the jets to land"

ink on clay board, digital color, and then screen printed.

[koyoriin]

duchess WIP!

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[stealingpotatoes]

obsessed with how clean ur drawings are. me w my billion layers per drawing bc of my fear to commit to a line

i never thought my art would be called clean LOL i thought i was very messy, but ig my mix of 1. work fast/ don’t redo every line constantly and 2. be as economical as you can with layers (a product of when i only used my broken-ass ipad) makes it seem cleaner

[iraprince]

gonna show u guys a little opalescent highlight hack i threw together today

rainbow gradient above your main figure (i usually have all my main figure folders/layers in one big folder, so i can clip gradient maps + adjustments to it!). liquify tool to push the colors around a bit. STAY WITH ME I KNOW IT LOOKS STUPID RN I'M GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THIS

THEN: set it to add/glow (or the equivalent in ur drawing program), lower the opacity a bit, and apply a layer mask. then u can edit the mask with whatever tools you like to create rainbow highlights!!

in this case i'm mostly using the lasso fill tool to chip out little facets, but i've also done some soft airbrushing to bring in larger rainbow swirls in some areas. it's pretty subtle here, but you can see it better when i remove the gradient map that's above everything, since below i'm working in greyscale:

more granular rambling beneath the cut!

u could also just do this with a brush that has color jitter, but what i like about using layer masks for highlight/shading layers is how simple and reversible it makes everything. i can use whatever brushes i want, and erasing/redoing things is super low stakes, which is great when i often approach this stuff with a super trial-and-error approach.

example: have u ever thrown a gradient w multiple colors over an entire piece, set it to multiply etc, and then tried to erase it away to carve out shadows/highlights? it's super frustrating, bc it looks really good, but if u erase something and then change ur mind later, u basically would have to like. recreate the gradient in the area u want to cover up again. that's how i used to do things before figuring out layer masks!! but masking basically creates a version of this with INFINITE undo bc u can erase/re-place the base layer whenever u want.

anyway, back to rambling about this specific method:

i actually have TWO of these layers on this piece (one with the liquified swirls shown above, and another that's just a normal concentric circle gradient with much broader stripes) so i can vary the highlights easily as needed.

since i've basically hidden the rainbow pattern from myself, the colors in each brushstroke i make will kind of be a surprise, which isn't always great -- but easily fixable! for example, if i carve out a highlight and it turns out the rainbow pattern in that area is way too stripey, i can just switch from editing the mask to editing the main layer and blur that spot a bit.

also, this isn't a full explanation of the overall transparency effect in these screencaps! there's other layer stuff happening below the rainbow highlights, but the short version is i have all this character's body parts in different folders, each with their own lineart and background fill, and then the fill opacity is lowered and there's multiply layers clipped to that -- blah blah it's a whole thing. maybe i'll have a whole rundown on this on patreon later. uhhh i think that's it tho! i hope u get something useful out of this extremely specific thing i did lmao

[kelogsloops]

forever repeating 'trust the process' in my head while making these marker portrait studies 😅 #brbchasingdreams

🎵 Blue Wednesday - Things In Between

[queenoftheantz]

I actually took photos of my process this time! I always look for these when i try to learn the medium, so here you go! Details on the process is in the alt text!

[staticcolour]

Commission o7 Process below the cut

[puba24]

Trying to jump back on productive wave, so doing fast daily sketches

[vanessagillings]

As promised...process shots! All of my pieces for my solo show at Nucleus Portland were painted in gouache with a tiny bit of watercolor at the end. A lot of these originals as well as prints are available here!

[maxyvert]

👻Ghost Lady process👻

The footage waited years for me, and finally it could become a lil video. >Finished illustration here<

[tsrmarina]

Quick sketch study ✍️

I must do more studies before finishing any other pieces 🫠

Time-lapse of the process:

Get print:

[missusruin]

wip vs finals; paint-blob edition