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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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"waiting for the jets to land"
ink on clay board, digital color, and then screen printed.
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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)
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And also, of course, the Superman (2025) set photos
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#superfamilyweek#superman#dcu#clois#lois lane#clark kent#i was actually gonna post this a few days ago but then i found out about the superfamily week#it wasn't made for it but i hope you can accept this humble offering even if it doesn't really fit the prompts#art#digital#fanart#live-action#dc#regular#final#colour#this actually from june when the set photos came out and i just got completely obsessed and went into a clois haze#it all looks so good though!! the whole thing!!!! i'm vibrating with excitement just thinking about it!!!!!!!#if this film isn't good i'm gonna be sooo disappointed you guys have no idea how much i'm looking forward to it#but anyway. ART RAMBLES: as i mentioned on the tags of my last drawing this piece gave me SUCH a headache#i think it's probably cos it was just supposed to be a quick sketch so i used a more stable pencil brush#but then i really liked it so i decided to properly colour it instead of just doing the watercolour thing i usually do for sketches#but with finished pieces i like the lineart to be kinda messy and the sketch to even show through bit#and since i used the more stable brush for the sketch it ended up looking WAY too clean. not like my stuff at all.#so i just started throwing stuff at the wall to see what could make it more interesting. full background! actual lineart! texture layers!#and this here is what i was the happiest with. i don't... love it though. it should be looking way more interesting given the pose#and then i also did the purge girl halfway through this and it looked SO good right out of the bat (pun intended)#so i went a bit into a spiral. did some realistic stuff i'll post soon. and now am trying out a thick black lineart style.#(i'll definitely still use the coloured lines for the sketchy watercolour stuff though. it just looks way too cute)
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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!
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I'm only offering three options right now to not get confused on my pricing!
#maudiemoods art tag#commissions open#commissions#commisions open#i tend to clean up the sketches instead of doing a whole new layer for line art#sorry i keep switching up my coms stuff!! i want my commissions to be cheap but i also need money aughrg
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realized one of my oldest warrior cat ocs never got a ref sheet, so here she is! I love her so much :]
#my art#warrior cat oc#warrior cats#wc#wc art#my ocs#embercloud#i haven't felt like doing line art recently so i just cleaned up the original sketch and added a good colour via clipping layer#clipping layers my beloved <3#i used her in a rp more than 10 years ago and she's lived in my head ever since
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ART POLL TIME
Rbs appreciated :3 rb/comment your process :D
#my polls#polls#young artists#artists#artists of tumblr#artblr#pollblr#i do one layer i feel like the second layer of line art takes away the CHARACTER of the sketch#i clean it up
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trying out lineart with my guy Willow and idk man.
#like whenever i do “line art” its just a cleaned up sketch which i rlly like but i want to try to do clean lineart. or cleanish. cause#a lot of a my lineart ends up getting softened with a gouache or oil paint bruch in csp#but also this looks kinda meh rn. ill probably go in and thicken the lineart and thin it out in other places so it looks beter#or maybeill just paint over it like usual#also willows face looks wonky and it this was all one layer it would be much easier to fix lol#willow#oc#original character#wip#work in progress#art
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Trying out a new rendering style with my best boy Ethan!
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#my art#my ocs#I learned a lot from this attempt!#Main thing I learned: I hate doing art where the sketch layer is just cleaned up a lil and there's no proper lineart#even though lots of art styles do this and it looks great for them.#I just feel like if I'm gonna keep the lines I should do lineart. Y'know?#the other thing I learned is that it's okay to be messier with how colors go together#as long as the rendering style is consistent across the piece it's gonna be fine! just don't mix it up too much or it doesn't work
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☺️ 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 😭
#ask#heywizards#yes the acoc art flopped yes i'm still proud of it#the turnover for that piece was crazy i can't believe i got it done in a couple of days#i used a cleaned-up sketch layer as my lineart for both the scratch & ozy god pieces and they turned out fine!#part of me will always think my cleaner lines look better and maybe that's true#but perhaps it's a small price to pay for like. not feeling miserable while doing lineart#sorry that got really rambly i have a lot of thoughts and feelings about the art process
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you'll never catch me saying I hate line art ever again 💯
#ive been drawing digitally for yearss it's embarrassing how long it took me to find a brush I actually like for line art 🙈#and still my lineart can only extend to cleaning up the sketch layer like I'm not redrawing over my sketch ever!!!#where are the dynamic lines.. the pencil strokes that add volume... it just isn't for me </3#wip
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Aziell, if you were reincarnated, what would you want to be in your next life?
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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.
#aziell tag#asks#fantroll art#everyone look at me i got new csp assets and i can make fugly backgrounds!#everyone look at the background and not me failing to clean up the lines after i accidentally drew on the sketch layer#also behold aziell in her natural habitat: smoking on a rooftop somewhere
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Hopeless romantic 🥀
#my art#my oc#anastasia#charcoal heart#gothic heroine#whimsigothic#another process experiment#this time I tried colouring directly over the sketch cleaning it up in the process#it didn’t actually save that much time tho since I had to be careful not to paint over the lines I wanted to keep#I made the mistake of having it all on one layer tho#which meant I couldn’t adjust the colours afterwards#which is fine because this was a preplanned palette but#all that to say idk if this is The Way but it certainly is A Way#solstrix draws
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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!
#liazrad talks#genuinely i like how the cleaned up sketches look. it adds more varied line weight to my art#and sure it might be a bit messier in some places but i think that's charming#over time ive become less and less of a perfectionist with my art and its become more fun as a result#have any of yall noticed i post more frequently than i used to? thats a good byproduct of all that too!#also it takes less layers doing things the fucked up way which is good for my computer teehee#when i was in like...middle and highschool i had always yearned for a perfect clean super detailed anime art style.#but these days? im enjoying leaning into crazier messier stuff! i wanna continue to mix that with the clean anime style to create MY style
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#every time every freakin time I decide to trust the secondary artist to do clean up on my layouts i am punished#i tell them every time 'my work is a guideline for you. you need to go in and fix it for your final art'#and then they send me back a file where the shading layer is the blocks and imprecise lines based on my sketch#so I have to go and clean it myself and redo a bunch of stuff#and then I just get to hear “oh wow their art is sooo good they've gotten so much better!”#staring into the camera like in the fucking office you guys know how much visual information i have to give them im drawing the entire sket#and when they go off my sketch and draw their own stuff it doesnt look right but When I say im going to ask for a revision they are like#'oh youre focusing too much on it'#HUH whAT am I NOT BEING PAID TO MAKE SURE THE ART LOOKS GOOD#i swear#okay deep breaths im fine im normal time do go shade a background i guess#wild ramblings
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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
#i have i think three wips that are all haphazardly labeled#and i just really need to clean up in general SNSJ bc like i know there’s several layers that need to be deleted in general#the way i draw is chaos#i draw wip over wip on top of each other until i get lines like cuz this bitch doesn’t do line art#and THEN when i go over it enough times and it looks good enough i clean up the lines#so i often forget i have several sketch layers under everything#not to mention in a very paranoid person#and i worry about losing lines that i didn’t like initially but do later#so i take a lot of screenshots and keep folders of the older sketch layers pretty much throughout my whole process#until i do exactly this and spring clean it#lyriumsings txt
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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 🙃
#luckily I still have the most important final sketch layer but alllllll the prototypes gone. all the anatomy sketches gone#really took the wind out of my sails#not to mention the version of the sketch i still have was shrunken down so I cant clean it up I gotta fully redo it as line art 😩#artist problems#rambles
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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
#remembering the times i vouldnt draw for a week and said ''oh man im so artblocked lol'' and shedding a single tear#i thought last november was bad but at least i was sculping right now everything i draw looks like i lost all the skill i had accumulated#i forgot everything about anatomy about my stylistic choices lighting perspective proportion#sketching lining painting layering cleaning up#faces bodies clothes environments backrounds objects#literally everything i know feels like is just. gone from my brain#factory reset to my art skills#doesnt mean im not inspired or that i dont have ideas but im like.#i sit dowm to draw and for the lofe of my i CANNOT obercome the blank page.#i draw a line i draw a character i draw ANYTHING and it just **doesnt work out**#im freaking out a little bit because oh my god i was supposed to be drawing really well right now where is that skill????#idk what to do honestly. im gonna watch a couple of videos and start doing daily exercises to try and just. draw.#it used to be my main hobby but now it just isnt and its making me really sad#i want to go back to being an artist :(#talk
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