#breath of life
{ a kind of magic }
“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”
Walter Hagen
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Breath Of Life - Florence + The Machine
I’m trying to breathe some life into my personal IG. The struggle is real. Follow me maybe? ♥️
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ok but how the heck was florence welch only 23 years old when she released her first album with florence + the machine
how did she sound like an ageless fae and a siren and a witch all at the same time, at the tender young age of twenty fucking three
i swear to god that woman wasn’t born but rather crawled from the ocean millennia ago, there is no other explanation
The Spirit Child collection arrives April 25th on Odera.net! One of the earliest pieces from the collection is “The Breath of Life”. Let’s dig into the process from the Patreon vault
The earliest scribbles in my sketchbook. At this stage I don’t care about clarity or even making a good image. Rather it’s just getting any of my thoughts onto a picture plane.
More pencil scribbles with the occasional checkmark or phrase to to fan the embers
The first round of intriguing thumbnails I’ve taken into photoshop to cleanup. This is the no pile. Usually it’s a no if I don’t even want to refine the image further.
The maybe pile. Thinking of a previous painting inspired by Obatala, and what it would look like to capture a narrative moment from a warrior of Obatala
The finalized yes pile! This is where the compositions, characters, and narrative start to come to life. I didn’t know much, but I knew I was interested in the metaphor of fanning, breath, and protection.
Some watercolor explorations I was doing on the side to scratch the itch of what this character could look like when they’re more developed
We chose choice A! Wavecaps, Durags, Fan dances, and embodying Obatala energy.
And then we move into the final pencil drawing!!! I accidentally did that artist thing where I didn’t document the in between steps. But alot of the ease in this jump is knowing my strengths & weaknesses–there’s a time refine & a time to generate quick + raw materials!
For the next post we will jump into color, references, and the constant layers and layers.
