Description
Art Timelapse
Thumbnail Timelapse
Alternate version with no shadows
So sorry!🙇♀️Between getting ‘rona again & readjusting, I took a longer break than I intended. Guess this drawing of worry is kinda subconscious😳…
Based off a sudden thumbnail. She’s not feeling “pain” per se (since she doesn’t have nerves); more like slight pressure that she’s cautious could burst.
MINI JOURNALThis was another piece I was exhausted with. Another was the “Jenny taken aback” one. While this “Jenny tending to leg” was over a week, it almost didn't feel any less concentrated with exhaustion.😔Anyways, in both cases, I didn't have too clear of an idea of what the final piece would look like (less so with this new one, as I knew I wanted to keep most of the lines red-orange & color Jenny aqua-green).
Maybe next time, when in doubt, just keep it a sketch, with no colors or tones??? Tbh, I didnt go that route bc I didn’t want a piece that was too harsh on the eyes from being over a bright white background, but at least a softer white. …Now that I've written it out, it sounds like a dumb reason.😥
Or, was afraid that wasn’t finished enough for IG/social media? Maybe, especially since I wanted to have a red-orange pencil-sketch style in there. Maybe be a little more elaborate & have black cleaner ink lines & grey base tones (like)?
Imo, I like the shadow-less version. the colors are more apart from each other & are closer to what I ended up having in mind.
Yes, even the unconventional red-orange linework with cyan base colors😄. I’d actually been meaning to try that out on a piece; tbh, I just like red-orange/vermillion-colored pencil sketches.😊 I was doing another red-orange pencil, Krita sketch in October that I wanted to try that color scheme on, but the perspective needed retooling.😵💫
BTSWhen I had two different thumbnail sketches on the backburner, I wanted to get around to one, but I went with doing the other, less clear-looking one. That way, I could finish it before I forgot what I had in mind.
After I was well into the finalized sketch, I found a 2nd, more pushed-gesture version of one of the thumbnails. That’s when I decided to try not to spend too much time on this piece; I wanted to re-do it with this pushed gesture.
Also, after a while of using one of my go-to Krita watercolor brush from last time (WaterC Flat Decay TIlt), I got really mentally exhausted. Played around with doing the painting stage in Adobe Fresco, but despite Fresco’s watercolor brushes feeling far more comfortable, I wanted to keep this artwork quick. Therefore, I just continued the painting in Krita.
Oh, and instead of erasing the extra pencil lines, I covered most of them up with white.
SELF CRITIQUE(-) Iffy depth on the navy-blue block of color
(-) Mouth kinda looks like she’s smiling???
(+) Good foreshortening on Jenny & the chair
(+) Great gesture/line-of-action into the hurt leg; decently faithful to thumbnail’s gesture. Improvement from that in “A Place of a Contemplating Robot”
(-) (Shadow-less version) L hand [our POV] gets lost in the sticking-out leg
(Shadow-ed version)
(-) Sticking-out leg disappears into the ground
(-) L arm should have harder edges on the shadow
-(+) L hand has hard-edged shadows
(-) Bent leg’s foot also has too soft of shadows
ART SUPPLIESHardware: Alienware x14, Huion Inspiroy H610PRO V2 pen tablet, & IMAGE Light Pad Stand A3
Software: Krita (art & timelapse), Autodesk Sketchbook (thumbnail & its timelapse)
Brushes:
-(v 1.1) Krita Redux- Pencil (AFresco) - linework & white cover-ups. Less-aliased version of the custom brush.
-j) WaterC Flat Decay TIlt - hair, ”clothes”, belly button base colors, BG block, ground
(Dig.) Clean-Up Lines (Aliased) - white fill on Jenny & base color on chair.