Jem

☆ Artemis Art Process ☆

Added 2020-11-09 21:05:27 +0000 UTC

Hello! Here is the new process walk through of my second redo of my Hades Goddess series.

☆ Sketch ☆

I wasn't really happy with my original Artemis piece, she looked a bit stiff. And I think it was annoying me that I didn't have her shooting. As I mentioned before, I wanted their hair to be more Art Nouveau - as Artemis has her hair in a braid I wasn't quite sure how to approach this. But, having the strands coming out of the braid, and wrapping around at the bottom looks nice.

I tried to use a reference to get a clear idea of how someone would shoot a bow & arrow but I didn't find anything super helpful so worked out my own idea. I don't think it's super fluid but will do for this.

Super useful when sketching, for me at least, to use different colours to outline different parts - especially if they overlap. I think my sketch process is pretty messy anyway so this helps.

☆ Line Art ☆

Again, my favourite part - everything looks so clean and defined at this stage, I love it.

Moving on from my Nyx piece, I had learned what I wanted to be brought through to these pieces. I wanted them all to have an aspect of their selves mirrored in the background shape. For Artemis I chose a "wood/tree" and the birds she's drawn with in the game art.

Here I want to mention something that really helped me take a step forward when lining. For me at least its so important now to have line breaks. It makes the image look a lot more interesting and makes the eye move. I used to not include these little dots, and make my lines connect thinking it was somehow cheating?
But sometimes when I stare at line art for two long I can make my eyes only focus on the dots - that's kinda cool.

☆ Flat Colours ☆

I don't really use green a lot, I think it looks super cool with purple in poison themed drawings, and with Miss Isley but apart from that...nah - pink's more my vibe.

I don't have a lot to say about the flat colour process as its just using colours similar to the game art - so I didn't even pick my own colour palette. I will just add that the hue/saturation change tool is soooooooo useful. Please use.

☆ Shadows ☆

Oh I will just say, here I did colour the tree and bird in full colour, then decided that was too much to look at, and wouldn't match Nyx's background. You'll see in next step I scrapped them colour on this aspect.

Shadows are shadows - they're very boring to me now. I now where to put them to match my style and as stated before find it boring to use actual shadow/light dynamics and physics. I just always try and remember to make one side of the face darker, and line the underboob.