Summer of Color-Wonderful World of Watermelon Whimsy

Being that this is our last Color Challenge for Twinkle Like a Star I wanted to do something REALLY fun for our color WATERMELON.

As I have said I have been taking many of Tam from Willowing's classes leveraging the knowledge of my own from past Graphic Design experience. This week I started her World of Whimsy course and we were to create a person. I wanted to do a person, but I wanted more than that for this week's SOC 2 so I incorporated her into another Photoshop Document and created for her, her won Whimsical World of Watermelon. I wanted to make it large enough that it could be a wallpaper if anyone wants it so please right click and save, then Set as Desktop for something fun to look at. If you do use it as wallpaper, would you comment below if you saved it or used it as wallpaper? I would really love to know how many people liked anough to do that! :) How exciting to know my art is on someone's computer!!

So enough chatter, her is my girl and her Wonderful World of Watermelon Whimsy

Summer of Color Mermaid

The weeks are counting down til the end of the Summer of Color: Ice Cream Inspiration series over at Twinkle Like a Star and I was started to get worried I would never see a blue/green combination but lo an behold, we got one! Wild and Reckless! Aren't the Colors below just fab!? Well, I think so because they were JUST the right colors I needed/wanted for a Mermaid I have been DYING to draw and color.

I have finished up all the Digital Dreams courses from Tam at Willowing and I think I really have a better handle on coloring Digitally now. I am sure I could use more training but I am getting more amazed at even myself on how much better I am getting at figures, faces and especially coloring!!

Check out my Mermaid below and tell me what you think?

Miss Strawberonade Flutterby Fairy!

Drum roll please....brushes and tweaks...here is Miss Strawberonade Flutterby Fairy!

All the sass and toughness as my other fairness but with a hint of sour and sweet of Strawberry and Lemonade!

 

This week our color for SOC2 was Strawberry Lemonade. On flip side B of my life I watched Digital Dreams by Tam and learned about Brushes. I knew about brushes before but I guess I didn't really understand how to use them until now. Oh wow! Was I hooked. I almost needed a crowbar to pull me away and pry my fingers from the computer. Tam gave us some ideas for where to load brushes and then my art friend Justin sent me a set of brushes. That made me remember the other brushes I had seen out there and well, I went a little overboard with downloading brushes. But then once I started using them, I realized, "Hmm, I don't need to load all these brushes I think. : lol

I don't have the Watermark thing figure out like Justin said, but I did Stamp my art with my Signature, Year and Month like before. I have to remember next time to take off my pencil signature before I start coloring next time. I got too far in and couldn't figure out how to get it off. I tried using the patch tool like Tam showed us, but I failed at that. 

Next week the new boyfriend is taking me away to the Amana Colonies for a week so I can relax (been very stressed lately and had some health issues) and enjoy simpler things. So I decided I would take my new Art Case and Copics and do next weeks with Markers since I am new at that too! 

Plus it will give me shoulder a chance to heal. 

Thank you so much for those who support my art Anita, Kristen, Leslie, Sonia, everyone from CED, Willowing, Goddess Guide, Summer of Color, Be Urself, Brave Girls, Ridler Studios, and everywhere else  you follow me from.

Also a thank you to JC for putting up with me and always supporting me. Without you as my friend and in my corner, I never would have gone this far and seen what I could do. Thanks for the beautiful new Sketchbooks you took the time to make for me, and for being my personal art shopper at Dick Blick until I could pay you back for Art  Tape, Pens, books, etc. 

I am also very grateful to Ben, the new boyfriend. Not many boyfriends will put up with you coming home from a day job, barely eating with you and then letting me go sit in my studio for hours nearly every night. It is what I want to do and it makes me happy so he said that makes him happy. Monday, Wednesdays, Fridays and most weekends- Saturday and Sunday are consumed by me doing art things, drawing or Digitally Coloring something, or reading something about art. Even if I am sitting next to him I now have a sketchpad and a book in my hand that teaches me "how to" something artistic and I labor over it intensely to make my art craft better and better. He doesn't really follow my blogs, but nevertheless, I know I am thanking him and it means a lot to me. 

To the rest-Hope you enjoy my fairy. I really love the comments. Especially the ones about my fairies being tough. Those have really made me smile :) You just  don't even know.....

XOXO

Trisha Trixie 

Raspberry Nut Fairy and her Fairy Nuts!

The Summer of Color Challenges Ice Cream Inspirations mixed with learning how to draw Fairies and other mythical creatures and beings  for Willowing has been a bit of a challenge for me but in a good way. I want to drive to be better at my digital art the the color challenge give a focus for what color to draw while the Willowing challenge gives me something to draw. I picked up some Fairies Tarot cards this week for inspiration and we will see if that makes a difference. I realized I lack in backgrounds and I noticed a lot more backgrounds on the cards so I hope to incorporate some of that into my drawings.

This weeks Challegen was Rasberry Nut for SOC2 so here is my Rasberry Nut Fairy and her Fairy Nuts!

Mint Chip SOC2 Angel_Willowing

Angel_Willowing_TT_900_Color copy, a photo by trishatrixie on Flickr.

This was done for my Summer of Color 2 (SOC2) Mint Choc Chip Ice Cream Inspirations Challenge.

It took me two and a half weeks to do this. It is hand drawn with pencils. Then inked. Then scanned, then brought into Photoshop and digitally colored with a mouse and then added layer upon layer ( I think I counted 27) plus I lumped on into a group, and then added blending highlighters like inner glows and outer glows and drop shadows and global light and more.

After doing that, I took all my extra savings and bought a Bamboo, Wacom Tablet. After my Art show this weekend, I am cracking that baby open and going to play with it.

I am intrigued to see how different that next one will be like!