valentine's day

An experimental sort of piece for a valentine's day present, featuring b-mo from Adventure Time.

the cave walk-through

Like my previous post, I've been experimenting with digital painting yet again. This time I put together a step by step of my process, although there's a bit of a gap from step 3 to step 4. Hopefully you'll still find it worthwhile to look at.
First step was value block-ins for the background, then a sketch of the character.
I began adding in colors roughly, and also changed the color of the linework so it wasn't so overpowering.
In this step I added a multiply layer over everything, filled it with a medium purple value, then erased out highlights. I also put a multiply layer on top of that with a paper texture to unify colors further.. and just to add some texture.
From there, I flattened the image and began to paint over everything, sampling colors that were already in the drawing. Added in darks, but highlights remained mostly the same.
The final image. Small touch ups from Step 4, then brought into photoshop where I added two multiply textures and a fill color multiply layer on top of everything to unify colors and make it more brown in color.

flowers

I've begun to experiment with Corel Painter 11 and digital painting lately, which is something I've always wanted to learn. As it turns out, Corel Painter + Wacom Intuos is amazing, and this caricature I painted of Brandon Flowers, which I consider to be my first real attempt at digital painting, turned out well.

This is definitely a technique I'd like to follow through with again in the future, and perhaps incorporate more textures as well.

This is a blog for Jessie Wright, freelance illustrator and student (soon to be graduate) of Savannah College of Art and Design. Check back for updates on my newest work and process, as well as sketches, in the future.