Here’s something you might know about me: over the past few years, I’ve increasingly hated my artwork. *GASP* I KNOW, I KNOW, that is so shocking! Surprising! Okay, maybe not. But yes…I was hating my artwork. Or rather, I was very unsatisfied with it and it was making me grumpy! I fixed a part of
I can’t really remember why I drew Kelly the Dreamer like this. I think I wanted to experiment and I didn’t feel like doing her in her original clothing. What exactly was I trying to experiment with? 1.) Simplifying my colouring process by using less colours for the shading. Usually, I’d use 5 or 6
I wanted a Wacom Cintq a few years ago, but held off in favour of getting a new Intuos. My first Intuos broke after a move and I saw an opportunity to upgrade my equipment. I ended up putting out a message on my social media pages asking for input. I ultimately decided to hold
If you read my last post, you know that I started to tweak my illustrations once again by keeping my sketch lines. I only had one gripe with this style and that was colouring it using Clip Studio Paint’s pen tool was taking a bit longer than I liked. When I would do line art
One of the biggest themes for myself over the past few years, especially in 2018, has to been to recognize what I like to do and what I don’t like to do, as well as what is actually necessary for me to do and what isn’t. When it came to my illustrations, my comics made
In my 4th Creative Works update, I had shared pictures of progress for a special project I was doing: This project was illustrations of my two anime forms (nicknamed “Queen” and “Creator”) along with new ones of Kelly the Dreamer. I wanted these illustrations to be used for merchandise on the online shop. I wasn’t
I think I drew this when I did my winter commission posters. If I also recall, it took me quite a while to finish this piece. I don’t really remember why it took me so long, but it did. This is one of my absolute favourite pieces! I periodically think about it, I love it
Kelly the Dreamer with her hand over her heart. This was also related to the spiritual awakening picture, although I never actually coloured this one. I did use it as a logo outline for a side-hustle idea I ultimately dropped. I think this picture is okay. It’s not one of my favourites, but it’s decent.
I think these doodles were from when I was doodling Kelly’s Dreamer form. I wanted a version of Kelly to be one of my website mascots (the other being my anime forms) and ultimately decided to come up with a version of her I called Kelly the Dreamer. Kelly the Dreamer is notably different from
Once upon a time, I was going to have a separate website for all of my comics from my other forms of storytelling. I wanted the banner to be fun and full of action, like a comic. This was the piece I drew. I ended up only using my fused anime form. I don’t actually
CHIBIS!!!! Or just chibi. Do you know what, I don’t know how we use the Japanese word “chibi” in English. Unlike words like “anime” and “manga” where adding an “s” to make it plural sounds odd (“I own a lot of anime” sounds more correct than “I own a lot of animes”), using the word
There’s not much of a story behind this picture. I just really wanted to draw Kelly on a crescent moon, so that’s what I did. I think it looks REALLY pretty, but it’s pretty evident that I need to stop with the starry, abstract backgrounds and try something more concrete next. While I think this