Digital Painting Progress

I've been doing more digital painting lately, for my own practice and enjoyment rather than churning out artwork to sell and thought it might be interesting to show the steps involved.

Here is a pirate character I quickly sketched up and the steps from rough sketch, clean sketch, colour, shadows and highlights, to finish with texture and adjustment of colour.

 

 

XO Mel

Dorothy of Oz

Here's a painting I've just finished. I've really enjoyed painting with gouache, like I did with the Mr Fredricksen painting! It's very therapeutic and it's nice to be a bit 'hands-on' and illustrate using a paintbrush again. It's also giving me lots of ideas. Might frame this one next to the Mr Fredricksen painting!

Hope you like!

Mel x

Mr Fredricksen Painting

Look what I did! I'm so happy with how this turned out. Using pen, pink, an eraser and gouache paints - here is my masterpiece! The colours have come out a lot more vibrant when I scanned it. I enjoyed painting this so much I'm going to do it more often! I'm not sure what I should do with these though...? Maybe I should frame it!

Hope you like it! It was a really fun process and I'm thinking of also sharing my drawing and painting process with you guys... what do you think?

Mel xx