Valiant Goddess Process

Hey guys! :D

I made a GIF of what my process is, and yes, its messy.  

I had some, or a few(?) people asking for the psd to this file, but I really don't think it'd of much help anyone who looked at it. Because, I really only paint on one to three layers, tops.

So I'll just do my best to explain a little of what goes into things of this nature. 

I start off with a low res sketch, then once i'm happy with the composition I up the size of the file, to around 300 dpi.

next I paint in all up in grayscale, and then add a soft light layer on top to add a light wash of the colors I plan on using, but that can always change, so thats why I put it on its own layer.

Once I'm happy with the overall colors I flatten that all down to start painting in details....

 open a new layer paint details, flatten, etc, etc... then do another detail pass 'til I feel I am happy with it. then i call it done and merge any remaining layers (if any?)  

really I treat it like if I was painting in a acrylics or oils. 

so not many fancy photoshop tricks other than overlay and soft light layer settings, for this painting anyways haha ^^      

but yeah, hope you guys are well.

until next time you guys, happy painting! :)

Ocean Inspired Illustration

Hi guys! hows everyone?

So a few days a go I decided to do a bit of a test live stream VIA google+ and uploading it to my youtube account 

And I gotta say it was pretty fun! I got good feed back and I shall be doing more! but next time shall be talking next time! So please post your questions and I'll try my best to answer all of them. :D

I'll be streaming every other week 

heres my youtube channel  every live stream will be taking place there and if you miss it it'll be uploaded so you can watch it when ever its most convenient to you :)  also follow me on twitter if you want to be more up to date @marjoriedavis91

^ this is a photo i took last weekend returning from the beach, and consequently used as my color pallet for the paintings (that i'm going to show you below) lol  

the not pretty, extremely rough idea in my sketchbook. the idea behind it is pretty much a blackmoor goldfish, water and the ocean in general. 

so i chose to do two versons one a little cooler and one a bit warmer.

I'll be doing 18x24 prints of these so comment here or shoot me an email xmarjoriex.md@gmail.com if you'd like to have one :)

anyways I hope y'all have a awesome weekend!