Remember earlier in the year I did a picture for Autodesk Sketchbook’s ART FOR HOPE: NEPAL project? This is the full picture! You can still buy the charity artbook of the whole project or a print of the picture above - proceeds from the sale will go to the Build Change charity in order to help with their efforts in rebuilding Nepal after the earthquake in April.
I thought you guys might like to see some of the planning stages for the picture I did for charity project ART FOR HOPE: NEPAL. I’ve added a bit of commentary to the images in the photoset for those interested.
The prompt was “strength, hope and rebirth” and at the start I really wanted to emphasise the rebirth aspect, hence my initial ideas with the seedling plant and the sunlight. In the end that changed somewhat and I ended up drawing a lot of my inspiration from the flag of Nepal, with the sun and moon motifs and the symbolism of the colours, but this is how I got there!
Because this was such a big project for me, typically I spent most of my time before the deadline panicking and procrastinating. It was a self-destructive cycle that I’m unfortunately prone to falling into and meant my early attempts were complete false starts. I knew what I wanted to achieve, but I wasted so much energy worrying about it not being good enough rather than cracking on that I made everything 1000% more stressful.
In the end I had to sit myself down and have a stern word, asking myself what I’m really good at (ridiculously long hair and flowing dresses), and to use that as a starting point. In the end, I’m glad I scrapped my first few attempts despite being like, three days away from the deadline. I ended up with a much stronger picture for it.
You know that really clichéd description where a character’s world “tilts sideways” after a shock? I totally experienced that very thing when I saw my artwork on the banner for this Autodesk Sketchbook charity project. Jesus fuck. I honestly nearly fell out of my chair lmao. No one told me it was going to be there!
BUT YOU SHOULD TOTALLY GO CHECK OUT THE PRINTS THEY HAVE AVAILABLE. There are more on the way, and I know Sketchbook and Viz Media are working in conjunction to put together an art anthology, which includes my piece and many others. I’m not sure when it’ll be available, but I’ll let you know. There’s a little more information on the Sketchbook blog.
Go forth, guys! It’s for a really good cause <3
It’s a seriously close call between this attractive bastard and Beyblade’s Kai for the title of “my first love”. How was my young an impressionable self supposed to resist those eyes? And such pretty hair *happy sigh* Trunks was truly blessed with some magnificent genes.
I totally made up the musculature lmao. I need to work on that...
I'm on a bit of a DBZ kick at the moment (you may have noticed). Bear with me whilst I work it out of my system...
(PS, still laughing at “Nailed”)
awkwardpuuf suggested "cute mermaid girlfriends" yesterday, so I scribbled the mermaids from Peter Pan.
I was approached by someone from Autodesk's SketchBook Pro team about drawing a magical girl version of SketchBook Pro Girl (or Mahou Shojo SketchBook, as she's now called), including designing the outfit and colour scheme, which of course I was 200% interested in doing. The one caveat for this commission was that, understandably, it had to be drawn entirely in Sketchbook Pro.
It was a really interesting exercise because up until then I'd only ever used the program for sketching. At times I had to think my way around how to do things - the silhouette for example - because I'm so used to the way Photoshop works. It was a little like a logic puzzle, but I'm quite pleased with how the image turned out. I'll definitely be using the program for full-colour images again! And no, I'm not being paid to say any of that. It really is a nifty program and very user-friendly to boot.
Those ruffles were a right faff, though.
Another one I've never drawn before. There are far too many so I'm going to go sort that out :D
I don't think I've ever drawn Aurora before :| Not really sure why...
Is it possible for me to ask what are the settings you use on your line art brush on sketch book pro? Thank you
Sure thing! I use two different tools, depending on which stage of the picture I’m at. For sketching, I use the pencil tool. I have the size between about 3 and 4 when doing super rough work, but when doing the final lines for a sketch commission like these two, I have the sizing at 1.1.
I’ve only really just starting using SketchBook Pro for final inking, but I’ve found the felt pen tool to be really versatile, even as a colouring tool, because it’s so sensitive to pressure change. I tend not to play around with the default settings too much, but this is how I had the felt pen when I inked this picture:
Hope that helps!
Trying to get the hang of SketchBook Pro 7 @__@