Jadewind Faire thumbnails

 Finally got to settle down to paint this, it was *much* faster than I was thinking it had to be. XD But was still neat to toy with anyway.

Even if I don't know about swiping clouds like I did the footpaths (from previous/unfinished Jadewind and Mountains image) I'm just shocked with how fast this basic stuff came out. New rule to remember for next time...when painting thumbnails, don't make the color layer a multiply layer...would make putting all this stuff together a *lot* easier. 

This has been quite fun! 

Thumbnails and Jadewind...

 So it's been a little bit of a while since I've shared anything to do with my drawings--thanks so much for being patient with me! Believe I've shown this version, yes?

I mean, if not, I've been playing with ideas and here's some proof. XD This is some sketchwork to throw ideas together and to decide how to plan the whole image. Here's what I've gotten so far!

 

 

Art mind is back and throwing thumbnails!

This was a fun little thing to play with. It's going to help make a very nice painting by the time I'm finished! Now to start painting for details and all of that.

An in-progress thing? Really?

It's been over a MONTH since I've posted anything of my own! *faint* Not that I'm sorry to have so many great pieces to feature...will definitely be keeping that up because it's so fun to see other people's work. But it feels so good to be relaxed enough to sketch some thumbnails of my own. XD

Does anyone at all remember when I threw some thumbnails for a piece called "Coffee Time"? Looking at the date there I'm gonna guess that most answers would be "no". (March was a long way away and not only on internet timekeeping! Goodness knows that even I had to look at the date to remember.)
I bring up that old thing because I've started playing around with it again. Found a better reference for the coffee shop itself and I've figured out a small story to connect it to another old picture! I won't be fully redrawing Find the Way just for this but it'll be fun to have some kind of reaction to that little tantrum of Valeon's.

Poor Cera and Haley, having their get together interrupted in such a way!

Having this come together has been great after having to rest for so long. May this drawing spurt not go dry anytime soon!

Thumbnails are actually pretty fun!

Did you know that when you are gesturing with a cookie, your friend will try to take the cookie from you? That was a lot of fun to waste a square on and it didn't delay the rest of my scene setting at all. ...probably was a very obvious thing but I don't do thumbnails too often. (Am going to have to start with them from here out!)

Had to show this piece of thing off since I learned the smartness of it all. Back to your regular schedules! XD

Scanner's giving me hell

I have things to post and the scanner isn't behaving for its life. Bet the darn thing has finally gotten to the 'nearly dead' stage that 10+ year old computer pieces tend to reach. That's annoying.

But, when I can get my pages scanned or photoed, I have some thumbnails for a new picture to show everyone. This one is going to be fun. I'm going to have Cera and a friend of hers sitting at an outside coffee shop, sipping on drinks and eating some kind of pastry as they talk.
Then the events of Find the Way happen. I always imagined that Valeon was being quite loud during that scene, so it's going to be fun to figure out how to draw the reactions from Cera and her pal.

...speaking of, I need to come up with a name for her friend. For the past four or five days, it's just been 'Cera's Friend'. XD Right. It's official now. Cera's Friend is going to be Haley from here out! (Until I forget that I wrote it here, anyway. Then we're back to square one...but a name will stick before you see the thumbnails!)

Another day late!

I'm starting to wonder if I should set my schedule to be more around Saturdays instead of Fridays, grief at how much I keep missing the day. Bah, as long as I post sometime on the weekends, right?

All that said, I'm pretty happy with how the sketch for the bedroom came out. Still working to line it cleanly enough to be seen but it seems to fit the chosen thumbnail pretty well!

Thumbnail sketch

I didn't put any of the flooring in and I know very well that the section after the stairs isn't blocked in at all yet, but I'm still fairly happy with how the full page version of this came out. Can't wait til the rest of it is done--hopefully fully digital sometime (but I don't think we're ready to move on to that point yet).

Thumbnails for Cera's bedroom

Chose the version with the underline

Need to figure out how to draw the inside of that spot and how to draw the three steps into there. >>; Otherwise, this is the room that I'm going to draw for Cera! This whole thing right here is actually the thumbnails I was asked to draw by the tutor...if this is how we're going to be drawing the sketches to later full pictures, I don't see this as being too bad at all!

Looks like I never drew the place for the weapons and all, unless that shelf in the back is supposed to be it. There looks to be enough room. Not sure how I'd draw weapons or anything on that tiny bit but y'know. XD