arboret
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lion guardant
🕑 Added 2024-11-21 16:56:52 +0000 UTCI've been struggling with motivation to work on personal art and also been really frustrated with my regular workflow, so, after my long break last month I decided to try working on something totally different!
this is my plush lion I recently bought that I'm a little obsessed with, and the background is based on the pattern of my bedsheets. when my roommate and I were sick last month we isolated from each other so this lion and bedsheet were my whole world for 3 weeks- thought it might be healing or something to draw them together haha.
as for the process, my plan was to do everything different to my usual workflow to make this hopefully refreshing and fun... I sketched as I worked from left to right and colored everything in by hand instead of using the fill tool. I'm sure there's a billion tangents I didn't want to go back and nitpick, but the goal here was just to let loose so! I am going to think about how to change up my coloring process like this going forward though, since it's usually my least favorite part.
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arboret
thank you so much remmy!! <3 and I'm so glad you think so! I don't mind picking colors as much but I think it's putting down the flats that's the most boring to me... working in more texture and hue variation like with this drawing helped make it more interesting but it did take wayyy longer haha
remmy
omg ronnie this is SO PRETTY!! coloring is also my least favorite in the drawing process unfortunately orz. It's interesting to find that out, since you put so much care into it and have such a good sense of color theory! I also want to say how much I love how organic this looks, the lineart/hatching has a block print vibe to me. I would totally buy a print of this too like timbre mentioned above <3
arboret
LOL thank you ❤️ tbh his tapestry the forest was probably subconscious inspiration for this too since I was fixated on it a couple months ago.........
wulfwata
soooooo beautiful and charming...william morris eat your heart out
