Moon Dance

I had to take a few days to finish other work, so it's been a few days since I worked on things for the workshop. Moon Dance was inspired by the daily prompt, crowd of creatures, and a late night craving for gummy bears.

“They danced by the light of the moon.” - Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

Daily Art Workshop - Crowd of Creatures - image 1 - student project

Metamorphosis 1 & 2

I treated these two prompts as two parts of a single prompt as I loved the idea had and was curious how it would look both ways. I definitely like the second better, but working with so much white space was very interesting.

Daily Art Workshop - Crowd of Creatures - image 2 - student project

Metamorphosis 2 - Fill negative space

Daily Art Workshop - Crowd of Creatures - image 3 - student project

Metamorphosis 1 - Mostly negative space

Daily Art Workshop - Crowd of Creatures - image 4 - student project

The Gathering. For this creativity challenge we were supposed to make very fast brushstrokes and work fast without overthinking. Since I’m working digitally (the instructor used markers) to add randomness I created a palette from a very colorful textile photo on Unsplash and used an Alcohol Marker brushset that I have never used before. I used each color and each brush at least once and scribbled the colors on to the canvas. Once I had the scribbles down I used the liquify tool, drank a LOT of coffee and saw a wacky goblin with colorful hair. However, as soon as I started working on the goblin I saw a dragon, and then another and another and it seemed they were supposed to be there. My favorites are dancing down near the bottom. I love the orange one that looks like a happy Golden Retriever dragon that's dancing with the deep forest moss colored dragon, she reminds me of Jester Lavorre (any Critical Role fans here?), she’s just loving that colorful chaos. The process can be seen here https://youtu.be/Yb-nAJDPe1o.

Daily Art Workshop - Crowd of Creatures - image 5 - student project

Day 3 - Slow it down. This project ended up taking me 2 days, because my wrist was hurting pretty bad, so it was a LOT slower than I intended, lol. I found it a lot harder to get the patterns and texture the way I like them when working slower, which surprised me!

Daily Art Workshop - Crowd of Creatures - image 6 - student project

Day 2 - Cloud Watching

Our friends have ventured far from their home in the Mohave Desert on their adventure. Speedpaint can be seen here https://youtu.be/Nuv_Te9uJmc

Day 1 - Journey

Daily Art Workshop - Crowd of Creatures - image 7 - student project

Erin

Illustrator, Digital Artist

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