Aziraphale and Crowley in the Ukrainian style. Walking through the Ukrainian forests, passing through abandoned old houses, the angel and the demon argued about the fate of the people who once lived there
Thumbnail sketches and alternate concepts for my illustration for The Markup about LA’s use of a racially-biased algorithm to assign housing assistance.
At this stage, I often try to include a wide shot, a full/medium shot, and a close up to ensure I’m covering a wider range of possible compositions!
Process for this month’s Patreon art print postcard.
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Idk but I felt like sharing because this illustration is potentially going to take some time to do. So I've made a long post about it, be ready:
I wanted to do something casual/everyday life for Lockwood and co. I could have chosen the kitchen but I really like the living room with all of its exotic finds and books. There is books everywhere in the house but there is potentially books there too and it's the "cleanest" part of the house, even though, we all know it's not exactly clean.
Finding ideas
First I made tons of little sketches to see what I really wanted to draw, as you can see, other scenes where considered but I wanted something showing the overall mood of the story, so it had to be inside the house.
I also made character sketches you can find here to have a better idea of what I wanted for the characters.
Moodboards
I made two very small moodboards, mostly to capture the ethnic masks and finds Lockwood's parents might have brought back. I've found a very interesting ancient jar that fits how I envision it in the book and some things here and there: here I like the sofa, here the table's feet, here the mood.
3D model
I anticipated it to be a very complicated room to draw, so much things here and there to be drawn, I could have done a simple perspective on Clip studio like I usually do. But I needed to move around to find the right angle for my illustration. This was very useful. At the same time it was a great training for a future comic project I have. So it's great! Everyone wins!
Sketching the illustration
Now that everything is in place I've added the characters and I am adding details slowly. I need the room to be filled with a happy book mess so it'll take a while. Plus the characters will certainly need some touch up. Everything will be revealed in due time.
Thanks for reading that far, waw, such dedication <3
I'm posting videos of my art process again. Every month I make art for the Sticker + Postcard club, this is October's!
Chill time if you just need some chill background noise while you do your thing.
So, I'm planning to illustrate my sister's fantasy WIP, and I was wondering if you had any tips on illustrating? If not, that's cool, no pressure 😅
If it’ll be printed, then don’t forget to include a bleed, for sure. Also, make sure you’re working in the final trim size+bleed. Trust me, it is a pain to have to go back and extend artwork
You may already be familiar with bleed, trim size, etc. and, if so, just ignore the below images, but I definitely caused myself a lot of headaches because I forgot about bleed 😂
(These are just images I snagged from a quick image search)
For the actual drawings, I recommend doing some experiments/test images to find a method/style that is streamlined and/or repeatable. My book illustrations use a lot of techniques that I don’t use in most of my other art because I knew I wanted something that I could do over and over again relatively easily. And I don’t normally do finished work in black and white 😅
I don’t know if that was particularly helpful, but if you have more specific questions, feel free to reblog or DM me😁
Process pics from my Minnesota Twins t-shirt illustration ⚾️ Many thanks to Heather Hinkel from the Twins & Zissou Tasseff-Elenkoff from All Star Press for their guidance along the way!