So, in truth, I do NOT know what I’ll be doing with this art. This was something of an experiment I started just wanting to draw my three, primary lead characters of (L to R) Mariska, Claire, and Shondra.
I hadn’t done actual ink on paper in a WHILE and was just playing around since the novels will be prose with MAYBE inset art every now and again. This design isn’t meant to be a cover, as the tone isn’t quite right for the book as a whole, but it was a really fun piece to finish and maybe will be a print or promo poster or… Kickstarter reward eventually. I honestly don’t know.
The finished art was colored in both Adobe Photoshop and Clip Studio, so I could use some of the different brushes available and play around.
After scanning in the ink-on-paper linework, (Using a Pentel Style for the linework and Pentel Pocket Brush for Claire and Shondra’s hair) I decided that the fur details lacked the more fluid subtlety I’ve gotten used to inking digitally in Clip Studio, so I ended up digitally painting OVER those lines and then re-inking most of Claire over the top of the painterly colors. I’m much happier with how the lines look now.
I did the same thing, but to a lesser degree, for Mariska and Shondra.
Originally, the background was designed for all blue tones, but I started playing with gradients and layer blending modes back in photoshop and came up with the weird, pink, and gold glows. I have a real soft spot for over-saturated colors, and this was a fun way to play with that a little.
What is IS, though, is a way to showcase the ladies in my upcoming novel and another opportunity to draw a werewolf. So, it is its own reward.
I’ve had this unfinished werewolf girl turnaround sitting on my computer for about a year, and I finally decided to finish it! I know I haven’t posted here in awhile but I’m trying to get back in the habit of posting my art online, haha.
If she looks familiar, it’s ‘cause I posted some doodles of her before! I’ve been trying to get better about designing character for animation, so I thought it’d be nice to try and clean her up and do a turnaround.
As for the character, I don’t really have much info on her yet. I just wanted to draw a busty, masculine werewolf girl but still have her be, like… an appealing design. I’ve spent my whole ass life struggling with the fact that I am both busty and masculine, and I just thought it’d be cool to make a character that embraces those things. I also think it’s fucking insane that most werewolf stories aren’t about femininity and gender stuff, because that seems so fucking OBVIOUS to me, so I think she belongs in a story like that.