the major project - progress part1

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 For my major project I am drawing pictures to the story " Magic of the amulet" written by my friend's 9 years old daughter. 

 
The main characters are Addy - the little girl who dreams about her own family and her friends  - Patrick the crab and Olivia the dolphin. This is my very first sketch on procreate to the story and a small plan ,where I tried to figure out how many pages I will draw. 


When I planed everything, I started drawing on procreate. I knew that, the first page will be very colorful and is important to draw Addy's legs because later on she will magicaly became 
a mermaid. I also write the text to know how many room I need to left on the pictre.



I created a new layer and I drew a black outlines on my previous sketch. When I was happy with the results I started coloring my picture which is my favourite part. Every time I remembered to create a new layer for each object, which is very helpful in case of mistake. I used basic Unlited Brush for coloring.

 

First I drew Abby with ginger hair, however when i finished coloring her skin I decided to change her hair color for blue. I wanted to stay with this skin tone, because Abby represents my friend's daughter .


To paint the sky I used two shades of blue and Pop Art brushes set to create a patern.


At the end I added text, written with white color and simple Chalkboard SE font.













Comments

  1. Jurian Visser21 November 2021 at 12:34

    Some very good development here on your project work. Well done. I do feel like the text looks a bit cramped on the page. Perhaps you could experiment with full-page illustrations on every right-hand page and text on every left-hand page.

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