This week’s CMYK offering are Rapunzel, Merida, Elsa, Anna, and Moana! Of them all, Rapunzel is my favorite - the original sketch was fun, but this final version feels more expressive:)
I’ve been posting these and other free things every Monday on my Patreon!
CMYK Rapunzel from Tangled
CMYK Merida from Brave
CMYK Elsa from Frozen
CMYK Anna from Frozen
CMYK Moana from Moana
Here is a sort of process for this piece. I sketched out the original 5x7 drawing on a piece of scrap paper and when I was satisfied with the result, I covered the back with lead and trimmed it down to size.
The original sketch
sketch transferred
Then I laid it on the clayboard and drew on the scrap paper with purple pencil (to see where I’d drawn before). Then, I started with the trees.
closeup of the trees. See how I laid down the ink, then scratched away to create more leaves? i like this part :)
Then I filled in the shaped of the roof decoration and scratched the vertical lines away.
Trees and roofline
With the roof done, I did the woman. Loose flowing lines indicate a fine white shirt blowin gin the wind, and a billowing black skirt creates more movement and interest.
The girl and the crow! I wish I had a crow friend
I add the crow, and study a Franklin Booth drawing for the clouds. I’m happy with them! The lines are thicker than I want, but I am working very small, so, tradeoffs.
Done!
And done! I cleaned up with an eraser, scanned it in, and cleaned it up even more in Procreate. I love how dark the areas can get on clayboard, as opposed to just ink on paper.
Clayboard is fun! You should try it!
It’s been a while since I posted any coloring pages! Here are various requests from nieces and nephews - my favorite is the puppy parade page :)
A blue angel with other blue angels in the background
dogs jumping on a trampoline!
a computer setup
the humble humboldt penguin :)
A hummingbird drinking from a flower - the request was inspired by a mural this niece saw :)
puppy parade- a dachshund, a rottweiler, a havanese, a lab, a pomeranian, a german shepherd, a collie, a shiba inu, and a dalmatian!
“a snake like dragon” based on the xenodermus, a cool looking snake :)
This week’s princesses are Anastasia (perhaps not a disney princess), Mulan, Jane from Tarzan, Kida from Atlantis, and Tiana from Princess and the Frog. OF them all, I think Jane is my favorite because it turned out so expressive!
I’ve been posting these on my patreon for months now for free! Check it out!
CMYK Anastasia
CMYK Mulan
CMYK Jane
CMYK Kida
CMYK Tiana
Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Esmeralda, and Megara, all in CMYK. I think my favorite is Jasmine, because she translated so well from the sketch!
I’ve been publishing these (and lots of other art!) for free on my patreon.
CMYK Belle from Beauty and the Beast
CMYK Jasmine from Aladdin
CMYK Pocahontas
CMYK Esmeralda from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
CMYK Megara from Hercules, the first one I drew in this series!
cmyk disney princessses (part 1). Creating disney heroines with only Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (and the multiply layer)
Read MoreThis week’s request was a moose driving a Sherman tank and an Easter Giraffe. Enjoy!
This week’s requests were Anakin vs Obi Wan, and an emperor penguin and its chick!
These are free to print off and color; have fun!
Yet more requested by nieces and nephews :)
a coloring page with an elephant and a baby elephant eating a cake
a coloring paged filled with smiling emojis and flowers
A collection of free coloring pages requested by my nieces aand nephews
Read MoreHere are a few value studies for pieces in progress! Working towards a painting style that I’m really proud of is very rewarding, and I’m looking forward to sharing more pieces with you!
“wrong room”
“swamp gown” look, no one said I was good at titles.
“dressing the princess”
My hand hurts!
As you know (I can’t shut up about it) I completed 365 drawings in 2022 (technically, there was more, but I stopped counting at 365).
Anyways, it’s high time to show off my top 10 pieces, talk about how my art changed throughout the year, and drag some of the worse one’s kicking and screaming into the light.
Number 10 - Day 266. I’m pretty pleased with this one! It might even be a sticker in the future. I was doodling women in long dresses - as is custom - and wanted to fit a bunch of figures together - again, as is custom - and when adding details, decided to make them goddesses of animals, the heavens, and weather respectively. I was playing with the shale brush on procreate, and it felt good to play with softer lines!
Number 9 - Day 206. This was with the brush nikko rull, of a nice sunset picture of a canal near me. There’s definitely no fish in it, the characters are my artistic license.
Number 8 - Day 85. This was a quick illustration that popped into my head and flowed pretty easy. She rides around in meadows followed by a trail of fire, making flower crowns, putting them on her head, then replacing the ashes with another one.
Number 7 - Day 150 - This was a day of MerMay, one that I was really looking forward to drawing! Deep sea, ice water, glaciers, all of these inspire fear in me, so walking across creaking ice and seeing movement below is my worst nightmare, so I drew it.
Number 6 - Day 20 - This one was pretty early on, and came together because I was on a medieval kick and wanted to draw an arc of blood. I still really like this one!
Number 5 - Day 180 - This is my OC Ally, walking through an old mysterious mansion. I was on aa dark academia kick, and wanted to draw a creepy mansion :)
Number 4 - Day 168 This one was a crazy; it was a five minute scribble and I LOVE how it turned out! something about the strange color of the sky paired with the darkness of the superhero, the simple brush strokes - chef’s kiss (This brush was nikko rull)
Number 3 - Day 285 - This is fan art of the Locked tomb, and it was the first artwork of mine to go viral on tumblr (for me :P) This piece also re-kickstarted my love of this geometric style.
Number 2 - Day 64 oh man I was so excited for this one! I got really into the whole dot-printing thing in comics - I’d like to play with it more! Anyway, I don’t really care about Batman specifically, but the idea of his silhouette rising above Gotham, but he’s comprised of comic printing-dots.
Number 1 - Day 250. Of all the pieces I did in 2022, I think this one marries the most focus, clarity of purpose, and the skill level I was striving to achieve that year. It started out as a scribble of words “indian thumbalina, lotus flower??” and everything fell into place once I actually sat down to work on it. What I’m most proud of is the sense of hot sunlight and capturing that sense of wonder and joy as a mother discovers her tiny daughter in the lotus. This piece is up on my Etsy store for sale, that’s how proud I am of it:)
My conclusion after drawing a piece every day in 2022, was that drawing every image that popped into my brain instantly is a really good thing to do - it both puts the idea onto paper so you don’t forget it, and it clears space in your brain to generate new ideas. A majority of the ones above, the one’s that I love and think turned out well, started out with aa very clear image in my brain - So I guess my conclusion is doodle all the stuff out of your brain, and the best pieces (of mine) were the ones where I had a clear idea or image in my mind that I wanted to create.
Aaaaaand the bottom three, the one’s that I either rushed through, least fit my art style, or in the case of the very sad Murk (raccoon’s name) on the right, how my brain and my hand were just not talking that day. Just so you can see the stinkers as well as the pieces I am proud of :P
Have a wonderful day!
In case you didn’t know, I have a Patreon! I post twice a week (WIP Wednesday and Finished Fridays) so you can keep up with all the different stuff I bounce around with. Right now I’m working on creating some digital downloads, a comic starring Rose Doyle (You can see her in my comic here), and random other art pieces - fan art from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Beetlejuice, and The Queen’s Thief, some doodles, some polls, and I don’t even know what else.
Here’s a little sneak peek from last week’s WIP!
This week is Grape, Orange, and Strawberry!
Grape Goddess
Orange Debutante
Strawberry Agent
and there are so many left! Blueberry, lychee, banana, pomegranate…. mmmmm fruit salad…
Inspired by my love of pretty ladies and also eating fruit, here are some fruit - inspired Princesses and Warriors. Eventually, the whole orchard/vineyard will be here :D
(Coconut, Apple, Lemon, Raspberry, Watermelon, Dragonfruit, Cherry)
Okay wow. I have done 365 days of art this year. Maybe I’ll do a ranking of my favorite 10! and the Worst One I Created This Year:P
Here’s the highlights from Nov-Dec! I’ll release a few more I’ve worked on later in a series involving fruit 👀🍎🍉🍋🍓🍒🥥
See you next year!
I absolutely though I posted September’s art sump - oh well. Two for one!
October was my busiest month to date - between shows and people coming to visit, I actually fell behind on daily art! I’m quite caught up now, due to my comic (which you can find a link to above!)
A lot of these are stickers that can be found on my etsy store! Here you go!
I think this month was very successful! I figured out how to make digital art look like marker - I’m especially proud of Day 31. It just amuses me, like something I would draw in church when I was 7 :P
The statue in the first illustration is my dnd character! This is the fist dnd game I’ve played with my sisters, and we and our benevolent dm are having so much fun :)
also, I have new stickers up in my etsy shop! Here they are!
Stay safe, and have a wonderful day!
