Art

Comic #14: A Parent’s Spotify Wrapped

One comic panel. 
A woman holds up her phone to show you the screen. 
It is her Spotify Wrapped for 2022. 
All of her top 5 songs are from Disney's Encanto movie soundtrack.
You know you are the parent of a small(ish) child when your 2022 Spotify Wrapped looks like this.

Learning How To Draw Webcomics Quickly in Rebelle 4

I’ve been doing a lot of experimenting in my digital art program, Rebelle, to try and figure out how to quickly draw comics. Because the fact of the matter is, I have a lot of creative projects that I’m working on and my webcomics are just one of many. If I’m going to actually get them out with any regularity, I need my process of drawing and coloring to be quick. It has taken many days of digital painting, experimenting, googling and watching YouTube videos but I think I’m finally there.

The BIGGEST discoveries were the magic wand and paint bucket tool. I then had some trouble with pesky ‘white lines’ around my linework when I used the two tools together, but I finally figured out that upping the tolerance of the magic wand to 100 fixed it. SUCCESS!

Luz from Owl House (which we’ve been loving over here) is who I decided to draw as my ‘test subject.’

Now the process of coloring in a character for my webcomic can be so much faster.

Watercolor Baby Shower Invite

My brother and sister-in-law are having their first baby and I wanted to challenge myself by making the invite to their baby shower. I’ve been creating art on Rebelle for a while now and I think it came out pretty well. I used mostly watercolor and learned A LOT about drawing flowers and creating a design with multiple layers while working on this project. I think if I could do it over again, I would choose a limited color palette to work from.

They are both really into nature so we chose a ‘Baby in Bloom’ theme with lots of greenery and flowers. My brother hails from Louisiana while his wife hails from Vietnam so I incorporated flowers that were from both places. I’m particularly proud of how the roses turned out.

I can’t wait to be an auntie! 😀

Sketchbook Snapshot: Fun Doodles

Had a good time doing some drawing and coloring with the kiddo. 🙂

This was a lot of fun. And a lot of coloring. Shout out to supercoloring.com for an awesome selection of free, printable coloring pages.
This is a copy of the titular character from Mike Wu’s wonderful Book, Ellie.
Learning how to draw aliens, astronauts and UFOs with the kiddo using a “How To” library book. I don’t remember the book though. :/

Comic #10: The 6 Stages of Assembling Boxed Furniture

Alternative Title Ideas:
-The 6 Stages of Making a Comic or a Souffle or Anything Really
-The 6 Stages of a Man Trying to Find the G-Spot (Which May or May Not Exist)
-The 6 Stages of Helping Your Grandmother Set Up Her New Phone

What alternative title can you think of? Let me know in the comments.

Sketchbook Snapshot: Mother’s Day Watercolor

For Mother’s Day this year, we invited my plant-loving, artistic Mama over for some watercolor painting. This is one of my creations.

a watercolor painting of 6 green plants in variously shaped terra cotta pots. 3 of the plants have flowers.