Diana's art

Hello everyone! It’s been a long while since I’ve updated this blog. I have been very busy these last few months, especially since I started a new job. I don’t expect the summer to be any different in terms of me running around everywhere. I wanted to update you all on me going to art school. I know the last couple of times I wrote on here I expressed how excited I was to attend my state university’s art department and graduate with a fine arts degree. A lot has changed since then.

I have made the decision to transfer majors and i will now be following a completely different career path in terms of my education. I will always love creating artwork both on paper and on my computer even though I decided an education in art wasn’t for me. At the end of the day this was the right decision for me and I will still continue to pursue my art career in other ways -- just not with a formal education. 

Hello everyone! I am hard at work on an illustration piece I am going to submit for a contest in June. If you are interested in this art contest, think about entering! It is being held by Adobe and it is for art students and emerging creators who use their products to create their artwork. If that sounds like you, definitely give it a shot. https://www.adobeawards.com/

Colorful hair is so fun to draw! I want all the people I draw to have creative style since I don’t have much of it in real life haha. I much prefer throwing my hair back up in a ponytail. 

I used a colored pencil to sketch out my idea, scanned it, and colored in photoshop using mostly Kyle T Webster Gouache brushes.

Quick doodle for tonight. I have a big day ahead of me tomorrow exploring my new campus. Started on paper, scanned into photoshop to color using the Kyle T. Webster brushes.

Hello everyone! I am working on a larger piece but this character I drew will be part of that illustration. I started with shapes to get the form right. It still needs more rendering but that’s all I could get done today. 

Hello everyone. Today I only had enough time for a quick process drawing. But I think it came out nice! I used my Figure it Out! Drawing book by Christopher Hart to get the pose right. First I started out by by sketching the basic form using my Shiyoon small ink brush, then I used a layer on top to put down the clean line art. Next layer consisted of base colors and I used the soft brush to add some variation of tone on the final layer.

Hello everyone! I made a short Youtube tutorial on how I color in my line art quickly on Photoshop. I start by painting in greyscale so that I can get a sense of where I want my lightest and darkest values to be. When I’m done painting in greyscale I set that layer to Darken or Multiply. I then lower the opacity so that any colors I paint on a layer underneath will show through.

As for actually coloring line art quickly, I use the Brush Tool to create an outline around where I want the color to be. Once that space is blocked in, I then use the wand tool to select that empty space. Then I use Select, Modify, Expand (usually by 2px) and I use the Paint Bucket Tool to fill in the selection. 

I also use the Pen Tool to fill in color quickly as well! 

Here’s the link to my Youtube Tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsljG1Cdu0I

The Pencil Exhibit