Amy Ouyang

My first try at digital art! Age: 18

This was a birthday gift for a friend who likes Jinyoung from GOT7. I surprised her with a drawing of her favourite K-Pop idol on her birthday and it made her happy, which is all I wanted :)

This took 15 hours non-stop in 1 single session, I pulled an all-nighter to complete this on time right before I met her in person.

I wanted to achieve a photo realism style with this art piece so I spent a lot of care rendering the hair, eyes, skin texture, and the way that light bounces off the skin and eyes. I don’t even want to think about how many total brush strokes I did to manually draw this layer by layer.

I also used Medibang with a very old broken and discontinued Wacom tablet which I didn’t realize at the time is extra hard mode in the world of digital art ….

Pens used:

- Sakura micron 01

- GETHPEN gold gel pen 0.6mm

- Muji gel ballpoint pen red 0.5mm

Happy Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day :)

Art mediums: watercolour, pen&ink, and digital

All illustrations are 100% hand-drawn without use of AI

Radiance the horse 🐎🌞 Age: 15

- ✏️ Medium: Prismacolor coloured pencil

- 🤠 12/13/15 submission for high school art contest on 1/13/15

- 📸 Reference: Photography by me with my DLSR! Drove over an hour out to the middle of nowhere and luckily found an actual ranch with the horse owner out riding. I asked the rider if I could take photos of her + her horse for my art competition and she happily said yes! So we did a fun horse photo shoot. Had to take all my reference photos myself because my art teacher told us we couldn’t use any google images or anything online, and if we wanted to use any references we had to take the photos ourselves.

- 🎨 Process:

1) Started with drawing a grid with pencil ✏️ and freehand sketched out the horse and rider.

2) Draw horse + reins + saddle + jeans cloth

3) Coloured the piece with prismacolor and did around 30-50 layers per pixel to achieve shading and depth. Some blending done with white + light cream wax prismacolour.

4) Fur coat has lighter warm tone as base layers then darker brown layers on top.

3) Add highlights and additional detail to fur with fine tuned thin electric eraser

4) Add rider + cowboy hat

5) Add background and bokeh

Drew my iPhone wallpaper!

- Included full Timelapse video of art process

Dragon 🐉 龙/龍

- watercolour on sketchbook paper

- 1/3/20

- Drew the base & colouring 12/11/22

- Revisited and added sparkles, turtle tattoo, and additional rendering on 3/28/24

- Experimented with warm tone and blue tone highlights in hair

- Study of @ladowska with my own style, rendering, & palette

Art process of mermaid princess with flounder fish bestie 🧜‍♀️🐠

- watercolour on sketchbook paper

- first sketched a light pencil outline, then painted colour blocks with random cheap watercolour paint, then outlined in microtip black pen (sakura pigma Micron fineliner pen , 0.35mm and 0.45mm iirc. Not sure if I had a 0.25mm but the thinner the tip the better)

- 8/17/18