nightmare team

Hey guys,

heres a painting (yay)

just thinking up a team of gals at this point not too sure what to do with them...

nothing too crazy...

one of them has a reverse dream catcher thing (?!) aka nightmare powers (woo!)

the other one's a knight with a panther-ish helmet that was fun to design.
and... a dark armored elf lady trying to get the armor to contrast against her pale skin.

Process wise- just basic rough sketch, rough color block-in under the lines and then painting opaquely over top.

trying to keep the values close, yet having the hues differ from character to character was a tough balancing act. still don't feel like i nailed it down, but hey.... needa work on balancing multi-figure comps. i have a lot of fun and learning a bit. totally gonna do more of these.

i don't think i have much more to say about this one, but yeh..

if you guys have any questions or comments feel free to email me 

marjoriedavisart@gmail.com

Thanks for looking,

Marjorie

 

final image

process gif

Some sketches and studies from the stream

Hey, guys!
Heres some stuff i've been doing on the stream the last few times.
I tweet when ever I go live feel free to stop by and hangout.

annnnd links to my twitter and twitch
TWITTER  TWITCH

Thanks for looking!

Stuff from the stream

things done on the livestream...
pretty much just warm ups and studies that descend into madness. yup.

I'm on my  Livestream from time to time so stop by and hangout.
I tweet when I go live @marjoriedavis91 so follow me there if ya wanna keep up-to-date ^_^








Thanks for lookin'

Self Portrait

Hi guys!

I totally forgot to post this.
I did it back on self portrait day (nov. 1st)
I livestream(ed) a bit of the process and posted a sped up version on Youtube.... But somehow I did post it here? lol. yeahhh

Thanks for looking!
Marjorie <3

and a gif because why not?

Self Portrait

Hey guys!

so... I decided this year to partake in national self portrait day... it was a challenge, in a good way.

I used a mirror and spent like 3 hours on it.

 For most of the painting I did not have my glasses on, so I think it came out way more blurry looking oops :x 

    

all in all, it was a good learning experience and I hope each of you guys try doing one.

Here a link to the timelapse video.

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!  

sketches :)

hey guys~

I wanted to share some sketches with y'all today. 

for me at I love looking at sketches the most its just cool to see where all the ideas come from and less intimidating to look at other than finished illustrations. lol xD

   I love sketching faces its fun and good practice. I try to fill a few pages with head and face ideas so I can pull from them in the future... makes it to where ya dont struggle with the illustration and makes the over all drawing go a lot faster.   

also mixing up animals to make a crazy looking creature is lots of fun too. 

hopre you guys have a good day and happy sketching!

things I miss + update

Hello you guys~! hows it going?

So today was meh and yeah, started think about things I used to really enjoy and miss doing.

Like I miss painting in acrylics; I miss the feel of a brush roughly dragging on the uneven canvas surface and having to wait for the paint to dry to see how much the color changes (for some reason acrylics seem to dry a lot darker than when its first applied :x ) and also ruining my favorite clothes looking like an artsy douche with paint all on my clothes lol.

and I miss playing guitar and piano its been ages I think I forgot everything I used to know how to play. lol I dunno why I have done those things in a long time and I kinnda miss it :/ I think I'm gonna take some time to finish the paintings that are gathering dust in my closet. I would like to show you guys some of my traditional stuff anyways, I think it'd be nice.

heres some of my realllllly really old paintings. I'd thought i'd share 'cause sharing is caring ;) lol 

     and i also miss karaoke T_____T