Art Updates: June 2024
Hello! First blog post of the year, and I can't help but notice it's June. :)
I've been looking at the draft version of this post for a while, and I distinctly remember feeling like it wasn't enough art to post back in February when I put it together. Now I'm like, "Wow, this had four pieces! That's pretty cool!" Unfortunately, whatever I might have had to say about these pieces back when I drew them has been lost to time.
Cerise & Violet
Clary (older)
Trashleigh (finished ver.)
Drawing shippy Cerise and Violet sketches makes me want to keep chipping away at writing their stories though! Where I am in writing book two they currently hate each other, so drawings like this are a little reminder that it doesn't have to be this way.
When it comes to this Clary drawing, you can see I dove really heavily into linework. After taking that botanical illustration class last year I've found it really fun to apply the same drawing style to my people-focused drawings. Expect to see some more of that going forward as I figure out how to integrate it better into the rest of my art style.
The little raccoon is for the thrift store I work at a couple days a week. Trashleigh is our raccoon mascot, and usually you'll see them as a little plushie posing with various things around the store. We have a monthly music series that our social media manager was promoting with AI art, and I have a lot (negative) to say about AI art, but I primarily think a shop whose main clientele is poor artists has no place even going near the stuff. So I figured maybe the best way to fix that would be to draw something?
Trashleigh (for work)
Aaand here are the sketches I did first! You can see it took me a little tooling to figure out how...a raccoon is shaped? And then I ended up just adapting my final practice sketch into the banjo version at the end because I liked it so much.
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