Hello to all! My dear #hive friends
It's been a while since I've stopped by to post an illustration. I lasted a long time to do it, you know that anxiety, plays dirty tricks in the head. I started this illustration and I was blocked, with the blocking, I was afraid to continue it and I didn't like it. I opened photoshop, saw the illustration and then closed the program. Friends, I was so afraid to continue it, so much that you can't imagine.
Someone told me "draw for you" and with that I started, I had no direction, I didn't know what to do, so I started on this path called "creative block" inside there are existential crises, anxiety, fear of how the illustration will be. I am grateful to be here and to be able to tell you how I have been feeling these days.
THE PROCESS
I really didn't know what to do, I felt that everything would look horrible, I just started with a lot of fear of how things would turn out.
I think I don't know very well how to draw people with long hair because my hair comes out very static, without movement and I think that in the future I would like to draw men with long hair, I like them....
I had to look at Pinterest references, I have a personal board of outfits I would like to wear and I always use that as a guide to make the clothes for most of my characters. When I'm really inspired, I take the risk of designing the clothes that my characters will wear. Someone has been encouraging me to design clothes again.
I would like to put more and more details to the illustrations I do, sometimes I'm extremely lazy but step by step, I'm getting there, you know, at my own pace.
Sometimes I think I should see more references, here I made a false step, those shadows that I am starting to do, then I removed it because I wanted to try something new with a shadow of another color, without dividing the illustration in many but many layers of shadows. What I did, I'm about to explain them to you.
I changed the order of things, what I did was to merge all the layers into a group for the character, place a layer of multiplied color on top of it, lower the opacity, and start creating the lights from what I was erasing from that dark purple multiplied layer.
This layer of lights, I blurred it with a finger brush.
here you can see that I am blurring
I made lights several times, it is new to me this technique so it was do and do until I was satisfied.
Then I finally started with the leftovers, using the same shade of purple but without the opacity, multiplying the color as well.
After several layers of shadows, testing and also erasing, I started to make the background.
Here come the final details!
Almost ready!!
I wanted to make this gif for you to see more clearly the process!
FINAL ARTWORK
I think I'm very happy because they helped me to continue this illustration, they supported me and I liked the result, I hope you like it too. I hope to see you soon. Wish me luck to get out of this path called "creative block".
