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THREE DAYS! 😩

Hey dudes.

I’m late. I know.

Before the day this was supposed to be posted (last Saturday) I rewrote this blog post several times. No, there was no real reason, it just wasn’t coming out right and then, of fucking course, I got sick. Stomach flu. For THREE DAYS.

I swear this year has been the worst for getting sick. Usually, I’ll be sick for A DAY and then its over (and then my husband gets it and it turns into a full two-week infection for him…oops). Anyways, you’ll be getting two blog posts this week (mine now and then Mary’s Saturday). Hurray!

Last blog post I talked about starting over on the illustration I had been working on. That happened, I don’t have a lot of photos of it, but it seems to be going well.

The problem the first time was how I wet the whole area first and then put light washes down of the ink, the edges blossomed and it looked too soft and fuzzy for what I had initially intended to do. So the second time around I lightly wet the area I was painting and then instead of putting down ink with the brush, I just dumped ink from the cup onto the page. That sounds like a really stupid idea right? Well…possibly. But it worked this time.

I didn’t just dump the ink as is onto the paper. Before that, I had mixed some water into it and tested it on a scrap to make sure that it didn’t dry completely opaque. So after dumping it out, I tilted the paper around and used my heat gun to roll the ink around the page while it dried to give it some really interesting textures and patterns within the image.

This isn’t done, but it's going well!

In between working on this, I’ve also been thinking about the cover image for the poetry book. We have a title. We are not telling you the title yet.

Covers are hard, guys.

Like, since there are detailed illustrations on the interior should the cover be a detailed illustration or something minimal? What colors are going to attract a person into wanting to pick it up? Because be honest, the ‘not judging a book by its cover’ thing is bullshit. And then there's the text. FONTS. SO MANY FONTS. If I haven’t mentioned it before, I have a degree in graphic design, so this is where I’m going to get hung up the most. I tend to overthink these kinds of things too much. Like everything else in my life honestly.

So that’s where I’m at with everything.

Have a great last day of February. (Omfg it's too soon)

~Sally

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Starting Over??

Hey dudes!

So this one is going to be a shorter one. I was all ready to do what I did last blog post and just finish a whole illustration in a day and show you another finished piece!

Big Big Plans.

That didn’t happen obviously. Halfway through I started second-guessing what the inks were doing. They were flowing wrong and I’m not sure if its how I put them down on the paper or if it was the paper itself. Maybe flowing isn’t the right way to describe it, they did that thing where the ink gradually blooms into a wet area and has a blurry/veiny edge and that was absolutely not what I was going for. Some of the texture of the paper wasn’t the same as the rest of it and I think it might have affected the results a little but I’m mainly going to blame it on how I put down the water and then how the inks were layered on it.

In a previous blog post, I talked about starting over on one of the first illustrations and how I was trying to power through it and it was just going to make things much worse. I had to get over myself and start over from the beginning and it was the best thing for that particular piece. I think I might have to do the same thing with this one. At least I didn’t get too far in, only a couple hours really before I decided to think more about starting over.

If I had had the full day free I would have already gotten the paper trimmed and stretched and started working on the new one. Unfortunately, I had real life things going on and had to actually leave my house on a weekend which is a fucking tragedy because I try really hard not to do that at least one day during the weekend. I have a Home Depot shopping trip tomorrow so the best result will be half the day painting, but knowing me that won’t happen at all. So I’m making it a goal to at least get the paper trimmed, stretched, and a basic shape down with one layer of ink. Anything extra will be a bonus worth celebrating in some as of yet undecided way.

Anyway, that will be all for this week and I’ll be back in two weeks!

~Sally

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Showing Too Much?

Hey guys!

I’m in a bit of a predicament. I’m not exactly sure how much of what I’m working on I want to show from here on out.

It's hard for me to figure out how much I’m supposed to be showing on a marketing standpoint. I want to share what’s going on with the illustrated poetry book but I also don’t want to basically provide spoilers of what we’re working on. I know I haven’t been showing photos of the full illustrations for the most part but I’ve been showing enough shots of one illustration that you get a general idea and to me, that feels like spoiling the full image before someone sees it in the book. Obviously, it wouldn’t be spoiling the entire book because you’re not getting the context of the full poems with the illustrations but…. it's still something I’ve been contemplating. Let me know if you have any thoughts on that…or advice I guess.

I’ve been starting more work on the Earth illustration. This is the one that I did a full wall mural of when Mary and I started this blog. While filling in the flowers in this piece I’ve been thinking about downsizing this one AGAIN. Reason being, I think the larger format is hurting the artwork. Because I’m not as good with watercolors as I would like to be yet, the larger format tends to make me overwork areas in the painting. The last couple I’ve done have been smaller and, besides going faster and causing less frustration for me, they’ve also gone easier and turned out better than I had expected. I’m going to continue with the underdrawing on this scale though, and then decide on what to do when I start laying down paint. If I need to start again on a smaller scale I’ll have the underdrawing of the larger version that I can resize and transfer onto a new watercolor sheet.

Between now and the next Illustration Behind The Scenes blog post, I’ll be working on this and a couple other illustrations while still thinking about the question of how much of an illustration I should be sharing.

That’s it for now!

~Sally

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This is going to be real quick. There will be no photos.

Literally just an update on where I am since last post before I go help make pies and shit for Thanksgiving. Or pass out because i haven’t been sleeping well (or unusual) and I’ve been exhausted as fuck today.

Lasts time I promised more videos on our instagram. That is still happening, it just hasn't happened yet. Obviously.

*Here comes more excuses!!*

I’m moving things out of my studio right now, because my husband and I are starting to remodel our upstairs (put in insulation and add walls/rooms - yay heat!). Reason 1 why I don’t have any photos for this post or why the videos haven’t been posted yet. The 2nd reason is that its birthday and holiday season, somehow they are all clustered together…

There has been “progress” though, not anywhere near substantial progress but…anyway. The paper of the illustrations are being stretched onto my boards. I use a masonite hardboard with a handy (haha) cutout handle on it to stretch my watercolor paper.

I might have explained this before but I don’t remember so here goes. To prep the paper for painting I stretch it by taping the edges down to the board as flat as I can get, making sure there are no air bubbles under the paper. Then I lightly wet the paper with clean water, making sure there are no spots that are dryer or pooling with water, and then use a hair dryer or heat gun to evenly dry the paper out completely to the board. Doing this makes it less likely for the paper to buckle and ripple while painting and getting it wet (it can still happen but not as bad).

That’s it.

That’s all I got, everyone have a happy food day tomorrow!

~Sally

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We’re Still Here!

IT’S MARY’S BIRTHDAY!! (Or I guess it ‘was’ since I’m posting this way later at night than I wanted to)

Send some birthday wishes to Mary (The Writer)! 💖

So Inktober kicked my ass….correction, getting sick during inktober and stressing about it kicked my ass.

I do have progress on the underdrawings of all the illustrations though and will be starting the painting process for these soon.

What I hope to come out of this part of the process is a lot more video, my studio is now an ice box which is better than a stifling box of breathable hot water…..definitely need to get some insulation and air movement in there soon. ANYWAY, it being colder means I can spend time in there painting and filming while I sit on a heating pad. I will be putting those video clips on our Instagram and maybe try to have a couple longer ones in the blog here. It's just going to be the same time-lapse type painting videos, I’m still not comfortable doing any type of talking on camera yet even if its a voice-over. It’s just fucking weird to me ok.

Moving on.

The Writer, Mary, and I have been absent from our Instagram for a while. We usually had made it a point for us to post at least once a day and the attempt was always to have it be something relevant or interesting related to reading, writing, or art. We’ve missed that by a long way sometimes but we tried.

Lately, we were having trouble focusing or remembering to post so we just kind of…didn’t after a while. We both have a lot of things going on in our real lives that have been a little much lately so we chilled out on ‘needing’ to be present on social media for a bit.

We’re still here and we’re still doing stuff though.

Get ready for some process videos, and painting time-lapses, maybe some workspace setup photos/videos.

That's all for now!

~Sally

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Reference Collage

Hey, my dudes!

So two weeks ago I talked about concept sketches for the poetry book illustrations and deciding to change the paper size I was working on.

The way this is going to go, if you haven’t figured that out yet, is I’m to vaguely go step by step on my process with these things.

Where we’re at right now:

1. Thumbnails

2. Concept sketches

3. Collage/Underdrawings

For some of the more complicated layouts, I use collage for reference. I tend to have multiple images for references saved to Pinterest or somewhere that closely resemble something I want in the illustration. Whether that be a texture, pose, or perspective of a body part or something. I will go into photoshop and collage these images together so I get an overall view of what the illustration will be like when finished. In photoshop I can easily tweak composition, balance, sizes of items. This way I don’t have to start over if I notice something looks off during the painting process.

A collage reference really helps me with getting size and distance comparisons better than I would if I was just eyeballing the images separately while drawing. Once the collage is where I want it, I’ll print it out at actual illustration size and use a lightbox to quickly put down the lines of the illustration. During this process its common for me to change things, like the placement of hands, or the facial features, the clothing or anything else. The collage and lightbox are mainly used to get the object forms down on paper.

Here you can see the collage for Civility, one of the other complicated layouts I’m going to do. Any of the items in this collage may change. Even though I try to place everything where I want them during making the digital collage, it will be easy to just cut and paste (actual irl cut & paste, not digitally) a wolf to a different spot if I feel like it works better after I get going on the drawing.

So I will be working on underdrawings these next two weeks and will be able to start painting hopefully soon.

Well....would you look at that...another clean blog post - I must be tired or something

~Sally

ONE LAST THING

We now have a ko-fi page. If you don’t know what ko-fi is, here’s a thing:

Ko-fi allows creators like you to receive money from fans of your content. Create your page and button and share it anywhere on the web. Anyone who clicks your link can support you with a with a ‘coffee’ (a small payment that is roughly equal to the price of a coffee).

It’s free to use. All you need is a PayPal account to receive payments.

With ko-fi we hope to get up and running with an actual website that will eventually include a store and for some legal fees, we need to actually sell the book (and future projects we have planned) once we get it done.

So if you like what we do and want to help us out, give some ♥

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Downsizing Paper

Dudes! Hi!

Last time I told you about the new process I was going to start implementing. Getting all the concepts and sketches down, then all the underdrawings down for all of the illustrations, then start painting all of them at the same time instead of in stages.

I’ve gotten concept sketches done. Tonight after work (did I ever mention I have a full-time day job?) I started trimming paper for all the underdrawings to get started.

Please ignore the weird salmon-colored walls of my unfinished upstairs that is my studio.

I have all the pages ready to go to get the underdrawings started now and I also took some time to rethink the sizes I’m using. 

If you have seen other photos or videos of the illustrations you’ll know that I have the first few on large sheets of watercolor paper. 16x20. That’s fucking big for watercolor for me since at the time I was still trying to learn to use it. 

The amount of detail and effort that went into Take You To The Forest I feel was too much. That kind of illustration at that size was daunting to me, the small details came out really nice and I really like it as an original painting. In all honesty, though I don’t think those details are going to matter or show as much when it is printed in the book.

So to make things easier on myself and the timeline and to just take the time to not make everything needlessly more complicated than it needs to be, I’ve downsized. Single page images are now going to be downsized from 16x20 to 11x15 and the two page spread images will be a 24x16.

Besides just being less space to deal with and intimidate me, I also feel like this will help greatly when I want to be able to do large spaces of one wash or texture. With the larger size that either required a larger brush, which was a bitch to work with, or just fucking with the painting in pieces until it looked like a large watercolor wash of color or texture.

All in all, I think things are going well and I hope to have some updates on the underdrawings of all of these by the next illustration behind the scenes post. 

oooooh btw are you as excited about inktober as I am!? I’ll be participating in ink toner over at my personal Instagram if you wanna check it out! ♥

~Sally

ONE LAST THING

We now have a ko-fi page. If you don’t know what ko-fi is, here’s a thing:

Ko-fi allows creators like you to receive money from fans of your content. Create your page and button and share it anywhere on the web. Anyone who clicks your link can support you with a with a ‘coffee’ (a small payment that is roughly equal to the price of a coffee).

It’s free to use. All you need is a PayPal account to receive payments.

With ko-fi we hope to get up and running with an actual website that will eventually include a store and for some legal fees, we need to actually sell the book (and future projects we have planned) once we get it done.

So if you like what we do and want to help us out, give some ♥

[the-writer-and-the-artist]

Let’s Take It From The Top

Heeey…

So you all know that I wing the shit out of these blog posts like right before I post them right?

Good.

Anyway, today I’m going to be starting back at the beginning. Not like the beginning beginning with the first illustrations I’ve done but at the beginning of my process. Go a little more in-depth with each ‘phase’ of the process. Because that makes it sound fancier and like I actually know what I’m doing.

After my struggles with the last illustration and taking a couple weeks of travel/vacation, I had to admit to myself that the process that I thought was genius wasn’t working for me. Starting on 1 or 2 and working through it start to finish while documenting the process in these blog post was stressing me out and when I get to a point of stress, I freeze. It never used to be like that, I used to overwork myself and not sleep until I got it done…but i’m old now. My body doesn’t like that. So I guess it changed the way it dealt with it and now I freeze. And I can’t work, or think about it or make any progress.

So all that meant that I had to make a new plan for my process. And we’re starting at the sketching phase! Sarcastic Yay!

So if you have been following our Instagram from the beginning you will remember these. These little thumbnail sketches are the first versions of the poetry book when Mary and I had talked through how it would work and which poems would get illustrations. They also served as a starting point for my ideas on what the illustrations would look like.

SO...

First Step: Thumbnails of ALL OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS

When this thing (the poetry book) started I had these thumbnails sketched up of all of the illustrations. And then for some reason when I started in on the illustrations outside of this sketchbook, I started doing them one at a time. yes, I did have two going at once but I would do the concept sketch and then move onto putting down the underdrawing before moving onto the next one. And even then it wouldn’t really be several at once, because I would only keep track of one at a time in social media posts and this blog.

Step Two: Concept Sketches of ALL OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS

Since that didn’t work I’ve started doing concept sketches for all of the remaining illustrations at once.

Step Three: Underdrawings of ALL OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS

This way all of them will be down and on final paper ready to be painted as I feel like it. One of them pissing me off? ON TO THE NEXT! Also, this will make blog posts a little more interesting, I’ll be able to share multiple issues or fun things about multiple different illustrations in different stages. Instead of trudging along with one illustration until its done.

Step Four: Paint on ALL OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS throughout the remainder of this project

They’ll all have staggering finish dates but I feel like this should help speed things along a bit more.

Don’t forget, I’m new at this and still figuring out how I work and everyone here gets to watch me do it. Practicing in public basically.

ONE LAST THING

We now have a ko-fi page. If you don’t know what ko-fi is, here’s a thing:

Ko-fi allows creators like you to receive money from fans of your content. Create your page and button and share it anywhere on the web. Anyone who clicks your link can support you with a with a ‘coffee’ (a small payment that is roughly equal to the price of a coffee).

It’s free to use. All you need is a PayPal account to receive payments.

With ko-fi we hope to get up and running with an actual website that will eventually include a store and for some legal fees, we need to actually sell the book (and future projects we have planned) once we get it done.

So if you like what we do and want to help us out, give some ♥

Byeeeeee

Sally

[the-writer-and-the-artist]

A Pause In Our Normally Scheduled Programming

Well....I was going to have a really short update on the illustrations and an explanation for why I don't have more.

It's going to be even shorter now.

I have been busy with getting personal stuff ready for an art fair event type thing that's happening this weekend and I'm freaking the fuck out. So there's not much to say for progress on the illustrations.

But besides that. I was freaking out trying to print something and get ready to type up this blog and my printer wasn't working right. So...restart the computer and printer, right? WRONG!

My imac decided that 'restart' meant install updates and it's been stuck on the DONE progress bar screen for FUCKING HOURS!!

help.

~Sally

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Decorating A Character

🅴

Hey peoples.

Today I’m going to be sharing the various faces of the figure from Take You To The Forest, let’s call her Anne. 

Anne’s fucking face has been the problem with this whole illustration not being finished yet. Specifically the decorations on her face, body, and head. Because for some reason I felt it necessary for Anne to have facepaint/tattoos and armor/accessories that reflected the feelings of “primal wildness whateverthefuck” that is in the poem. It’s an amazing poem, Mary, I’m not complaining about the poem, don’t be mad at me. 

Above are the first iterations of this illustration’s concept. No decorations or anything added at first. I had been thinking I would add them later and everything would be fine. NOPE. There have been so many versions of this woman’s markings and headpieces/crowns or whatever that its ridiculous and I’m surprised I haven’t ruined the paper with an eraser.

Nothing looked right. I didn’t want the markings to be anything based off a certain culture because I didn’t want to have to worry about getting it accurate. I am not about to add some tribal markings and say they're one thing when I have no immediate way to know if they are accurately represented. So goes me trying to make up my own designs and not finding anything that seems to fit.

First, it started where the thumbnail sketches left off, Anne had side swept bangs and nothing on her face. But that just seemed too soft to me, when the person in the poem sounded so feral. It was just facepaint at the beginning but I began putting too much on her. Then I wanted to add a crown or headpiece with a little bit of face paint. Talking to Mary convinced me that it was too structured to go with her idea of what the poem represents. So then I tried a variation of other headwear because I felt it needed SOMETHING there.

Finally, I think we got it. Sticks. 

Mary kept telling me she wanted something less refined. Something more found in nature so …..obviously, my mind went to a twig in her hair. It works. It gives a little more something up there without being too much and there’s an added item of some tattoos or facepaint above her brows now (that part is still debatable when I start painting) The tattoos I went with stay mostly around her neck with some on her arms coming from under her shoulder armor. So she’s not covered in stuff but there are decorations on her.

I think this was so hard because there are so many options really. Its just decoration so it could be anything. Tattoos, facepaint, headpieces, jewelry, fancy stitching in the clothes or whatever. I spent too much time worrying about this part, and partially procrastinating because I am fucking NERVOUS AS HELL to start painting on this one.

I’m just gonna do it though. It’s not going to get done if I don’t start and it needs to be done. And it doesn’t have to be perfect.

Bye

Sally •the artist•

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Details, Details

Hello all!

These last couple weeks I’ve been finishing up our logo (that’s now done!) and working on more of the underdrawing for Take You To The Forest and Earth.

There is so much detail in these drawings compared to the other illustrations I’ve done so far. It’s been frustrating because I'm working larger than I usually do, for drawings at least, and I keep wanting to get into big arm movements and loose shapes and obviously that doesn't work for detailed flowers and skulls.

When I'm working with oils or acrylic I usually paint larger, and when I was younger I did a fair amount of wall murals. Working that big is fun and messy and doesn't have a lot of details. So, even though these aren't mural sized, I'm still compelled to move away from the tiny detail work. And I can't just vaguely put down where shapes will be and then put the details in during the painting process because I'm going to be using the pencil lines. Unlike the last couple illustrations where they had a faint line instead of a stark black lined image underneath the paint, I want these to have more of the pencil lines showing and a darker but not entirely black outline to everything. The others called for a soft pale look while the emotions of these call for higher color saturation / darker themes.

BUT...I'm working through my issues with the little lines everywhere and if I just force myself to have a little bit of fucking patience..ugh...it will turn out great.

Ps. If the formatting or shit looks weird it's because this is the first time I've written a blog post completely on my phone. I have made myself into a blanket burrito on my couch and am not moving for the foreseeable future.

Laterz

Sally

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Swimming Sickness (I’m Back!!)

HEEEY I’M ALIVE!

So Mary and I released a blog post last Saturday with all of our excuses and explanations for where we’ve been and why we haven't been posting and why we have changed our blog post days to Saturdays. You can read all about that here if you haven't already.

So since that's all conveniently in a blog post on its own I won’t make any excuses for myself now and just skip all of that shit.

Moving on!!

Today I worked on the poetry book illustration, Swimming Sickness, for the poem of the same name. The concept for this painting was an inky octopus-like mass in a sink. This was really fun to work on because I didn't’ have structured shapes to work with so I could just fuck off with ink and watercolors. I want to do more paintings like that in my personal work, messy and unstructured.

The plan for today was to work on this and take some notes for this blog post while I worked and post about the progress late afternoon. WELL, OBVIOUSLY that didn’t pan out. And no, surprisingly it was not because I slacked off and didn’t finish it. I actually got on a roll with it and ended up being really excited with what I was doing so I just rolled down that hill with it and ended up finishing it.

I also was able to get some video that I will be posting this week onto Instagram so keep an eye out for that!

While I was working today I found out that I highly underestimate how light my inks will dry. I swear it took me like 4 hours to get this shit as dark as I wanted without making it completely black without variations in it. Which is what I wanted. I like that nebulous overlapping ink layers look that I had gotten with the Pandemonium painting and I wanted to try to recreate that.

The part I wasn't too sure about when trying to get this was the sink. I think its vague enough for the look I wanted but still obvious that its a waterspout. If I had gotten any more detailed with it I think it would be very noticeable that there was absolutely no thought into perspective.

When the book layout s being put together, I think this one is going to be smaller and pushed into the corner so technically the size isn't going to lend much to seeing detail anyway. So all the little imperfections and lack of perspective aren’t really going to be an issue.

Overall I’m really happy with how this turned out. And the fact that I got this done in a day has really added to my sense of accomplishment that I’ve been lacking lately.

Hope you enjoyed that trip! Send in comments or questions here or on Instagram, we’d love to hear from people!!

That’s it for now! See you in two weeks!

~Sally

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Do The Wave

GUYS! I DID A THING!

Take You To The Forest is finished!

I wish I could show you the whole thing. I really do. But I can’t because we’re waiting until the book is published.

....and I haven’t even shown Mary yet...

There are a couple things that still need to be done to it, like peeling tape and sealing it and what not. The biggest thing that needs to be done before I can do all that is fixing the damn waves in it.

Because I’ve fucked with this so much and used so much water on it, the paper has warped...bad. The tape that I used to stretch the paper flat to the board let go early on in this process and I had to half-ass stick it back on but never really fixed it properly. 

This has caused the paper to be really wavy. Even as I was painting and adding more water and using my blow dryer to dry it quickly (my air gun doesn't have as much of a spread as a blowdryer does so it takes a lot longer to dry with it on this larger piece) the wave would not flatten out. It usually did on other pieces when I’ve had this problem before. Just re-wet it and dry it quickly and it would flatten out just fine.

Apparently, I took this one too far with the overworking and ‘fixing’ shit.

I couldn't get a better photo of the wave without showing the whole damn illustration.

Anyway, I think what I’m going to have to do is peel tape, wet the back, towel dry until just damp, and lay something flat and heavy on it for a bit.

Next in line for the more intense illustrations, is Earth, the one based on this wall mural. Learning from my experience on Take You To The Forest, I’m going to do some digital color studies before I start laying in the large swatches of base color for this. Hopefully this way I can avoid overworking the paper on that one.

In the meantime, I have a couple “easier” ones I’m going to be sketching out and getting underdrawings done for.

That's it for tonight! I’ll be on my way to the Renaissance Festival this weekend and then off to another trip two days after getting back! So hopefully I’ll have some things to keep you guys updated with!

If you would like to get to know us a little better, we sometimes have more personal stuff on our stories on Instagram!

ONE LAST THING

We now have a ko-fi page. If you don’t know what ko-fi is, here’s a thing:

Ko-fi allows creators like you to receive money from fans of your content. Create your page and button and share it anywhere on the web. Anyone who clicks your link can support you with a with a ‘coffee’ (a small payment that is roughly equal to the price of a coffee).

It’s free to use. All you need is a PayPal account to receive payments.

With ko-fi we hope to get up and running with an actual website that will eventually include a store and for some legal fees, we need to actually sell the book (and future projects we have planned) once we get it done.

So if you like what we do and want to help us out, give some ♥

Sally