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[Completed 5/16/2020]

[EDIT 6/19/2020: I recolored and re-uploaded this picture to match the resolution on the rest of my gallery. A headache, but worth it!]

...And that, dear curator, is the moment I drop the broom and run.

A good number of things I could relate to this one - new beginnings, the actual springtime tradition, the metaphorical "cleaning up" of an old account (and the surprises, good and bad, left behind - but it's still a fascinating look into my past self's head space, so I will forgive her for that)... But to keep things brief, at the time of this post, this is my first art submission in roughly a decade, haha! It's an interesting experience being back. I only hope that keeping a gallery here will be to my benefit.

So! The linework was done with dry-erase on whiteboard, as per usual... but I (perhaps selfishly) wanted my first piece to have a bit more flair than usual, so after photographing as usual, I reluctantly took the lines to Gimp and tried, once again, to learn the program (I'm a newcomer from Photoshop Elements who was forced to part ways when I lost my CD over yet another move - any advice would be appreciated!).

After some time struggling to clean my lines, I gave in and colored the existing spaces by hand... with a round brush. But not all was trouble - I'm especially pleased with the flower print dress, and I never expected that to work as well as it did (some kind of skew tool, I think?) And the dust - that was a pleasant surprise as well! That one was a giant swoop of a brush stroke with a Ripple filter and mid-low opacity.

Since I mentioned this piece as something more bombastic than the norm, and I'm such a Gimp newbie, you probably should not expect more art like this any time soon... But I suppose the program is slowly growing on me, so perhaps another piece like this one wouldn't be impossible.

Original linework can be found here:

The rough posing is thanks to fellow Deviant TimothyWilson...

And the background is courtesy of this wonderful gentleman here!
unsplash.com/@mbaumi
unsplash.com/photos/9TvuxGW8ut…

Description
[Completed 5/16/2020]

[EDIT 6/19/2020: I recolored and re-uploaded this picture to match the resolution on the rest of my gallery. A headache, but worth it!]

...And that, dear curator, is the moment I drop the broom and run.

A good number of things I could relate to this one - new beginnings, the actual springtime tradition, the metaphorical "cleaning up" of an old account (and the surprises, good and bad, left behind - but it's still a fascinating look into my past self's head space, so I will forgive her for that)... But to keep things brief, at the time of this post, this is my first art submission in roughly a decade, haha! It's an interesting experience being back. I only hope that keeping a gallery here will be to my benefit.

So! The linework was done with dry-erase on whiteboard, as per usual... but I (perhaps selfishly) wanted my first piece to have a bit more flair than usual, so after photographing as usual, I reluctantly took the lines to Gimp and tried, once again, to learn the program (I'm a newcomer from Photoshop Elements who was forced to part ways when I lost my CD over yet another move - any advice would be appreciated!).

After some time struggling to clean my lines, I gave in and colored the existing spaces by hand... with a round brush. But not all was trouble - I'm especially pleased with the flower print dress, and I never expected that to work as well as it did (some kind of skew tool, I think?) And the dust - that was a pleasant surprise as well! That one was a giant swoop of a brush stroke with a Ripple filter and mid-low opacity.

Since I mentioned this piece as something more bombastic than the norm, and I'm such a Gimp newbie, you probably should not expect more art like this any time soon... But I suppose the program is slowly growing on me, so perhaps another piece like this one wouldn't be impossible.

Original linework can be found here:

The rough posing is thanks to fellow Deviant TimothyWilson...

And the background is courtesy of this wonderful gentleman here!
unsplash.com/@mbaumi
unsplash.com/photos/9TvuxGW8ut…