The idea popped up on the first day of the new year; January 1, 2016. I was looking around my Facebook Page and Instagram, and I realized I haven’t made a rendered digital painting for awhile now. I have a list of projects on my notebook and I thought maybe this would get the ball rolling for me for the new year. Kind of like a stretch sketch just to warm up.
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Inktober is an annual online event where in several artists participate in in the month of October. The challenge is to create an inked artwork, drawing, and or sketch everyday for 31 days straight. I was glad that I was able to participate this year and let me tell you, it is a fun and addictive practice with tons of benefits in the end.
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After finishing The Treehouse I decided to experiment a bit more on the topic. If that gave a more jungle feel to it I wanted to paint something a little bit more for a child, preferably somewhere along the lines of a child having his or her own fort/treehouse in the middle of the woods near home or a natural park; maybe giving a more playground feel to it too. I wanted to imagine a place where a kid would want to spend time in, maybe with his or her friends or just alone. Somewhere to read, somewhere to play, somewhere to go that’s both safe and adventurous. And like I said before, I’ve always wanted a treehouse, and this maybe close to how I wanted it to look and where.
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Here’s a fun fact, the entire time I was making this illustration I was listening to “You’ll Be In My Heart” by Phil Collins. This one was heavily inspired by Disney’s Tarzan. (And also I’ve always wanted a treehouse..) Process When I finished making Island House my mom came to me and told me she had […]
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This is the first digital painting I made specifically to showcase a more nautical theme for the Facebook page of Paper Pirate while I was still planning it out. I had been studying and practicing rendering at that time and thought I might give it a go, and I told myself I wanted to make […]
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Paper Pirate 