#the line art is the sketch layer but cleaned up

[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.

[marigraphia]

I've had this pose ref saved for a while and the Superman set photos just gave off the same energy 👉🏻👈🏻

The reference is this photo of Katharine Hepburn as Antiope and Colin Keith-Johnston as Theseus in the 1932 play 'The Warrior's Husband' (and I'd love for people to turn into a draw your otp meme pls pls pls this pose is so good)

And also, of course, the Superman (2025) set photos

[maudiemoods]

Commissions!

PayPal only! That's all I got skkfoskdk

Full body sketch: $25

"chibi" style: $15

Simple pfp: $10

The drawing will be completely colored with shading and lighting! Plus colored line art!

Finished results may be sketchy! That's why I'm keeping my prices kinda low! Below the cut are some more examples of what you might get!

I'm only offering three options right now to not get confused on my pricing!

[shadynightly]

realized one of my oldest warrior cat ocs never got a ref sheet, so here she is! I love her so much :]

[avocadoart]

ART POLL TIME

Rbs appreciated :3 rb/comment your process :D

[arinmoss]

trying out lineart with my guy Willow and idk man.

[theladysherlock]

Trying out a new rendering style with my best boy Ethan!

(click for proper colors, tumblr nerfed them for some reason)

[elderly-scrolls]

☺️ and 👀?

thank u!! | end of year art meme

😊 a piece i’m really proud of and why

i'm so so so so happy with this fanart for the Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands. of course I popped off while making fanart for a relatively unknown piece of media 😭 but it doesn't matter because i'm SO proud of it and it gave me a taste for lush/cluttered illustrations which i really hope to make more of in the future!

👀 a piece where i tried something new

it was kind of a product of necessity (I'd missed the zine deadline and was rushing to get it done) but I didn't do a refined lineart pass for this ACOC art. instead i just kind of cleaned up my sketch layers and rendered it as best i could. lineart is my least favourite part of the process and (fortunately/unfortunately) this proved that i could get away with messier lines and still have a piece look "complete" by my own standards. since then i've used a cleaned up sketch layer as my lineart for a few more pieces and it's SO much more enjoyable 😭

[shikanji]

you'll never catch me saying I hate line art ever again 💯

[trainwreck-trolls]

Aziell, if you were reincarnated, what would you want to be in your next life?

probably a good tim3 to start thinking about what will happ3n when i di3, isn't it? if i couldn't b3 a troll...hm. i would want to b3 abl3 to fly. mayb3...a dragonfly. a fast on3.

sp3aking of flying. hop3fully som3on3 on this dump of a plan3t has a hov3rboard i can...borrow. if i g3t caught, i'm a sitting quackb3ast without my board, and i would rath3r k33p th3 aft3rlif3 qu3stions hypoth3tical.

[solstrix]

Hopeless romantic 🥀

[overchromatic]

i haven't posted art with proper lineart in like a month i just clean up my sketches until it looks like lineart and honestly it's more fun AND looks better imo. girl im never lining anything again after i finish the comms im working on now!

[wildstar25]

😊

[lyriumsings]

my internet is still out along with the power so i’m gonna take that as god telling me to take the time to label my fucking layers tbh

[causalityparadoxes]

Reminder to always check whether you accidentally deleted a layer or folder before closing you art file! Or else you may open it the next day to find you've lost hours of work 🙃

[sludgeguzzler]

honest to god i think i spend more of my time artblocked than drawing. im being so serious right now when i say i havent drawn something decent/beyond a draft in more than 2 months and its driving me insane