Digital Art – Lillian Husky

I’ve been drawing almost as long as I can remember. Seeing all the cool things people had drawn online, I’d always wanted to make digital art, but never had the tools to try. So as I learn this new skill, I’ll try to document my progress for you guys here. 🙂

This is the first painting that I made in photoshop and liked enough to save. Before this, I couldn’t figure out to make the round brush in photoshop look nice, the hard edge made it look so artificial. So for this one I found the “blender brush” and just painted straight with that.

This is a screenshot from the movie titanic (which I have never watched) I chose to paint it because liked the movement. For this paining I drew one human face and one frog face. So your welcome Mr. DiCaprio 🙂

I designed jerseys for my ultimate frisbee team!!! I used photoshop. :/ if I ever do this again I’ll use illustrator, so that the jersey company wont get mad because its pixelated and not a vector design…

Here are 2 nature-y paintings I made. I really like lily pond. But the line art on the cabin is a bit heavy handed.

In this file, is probably my biggest failure and my biggest success. Top right, was my first attempt to draw 67 (Sae Byeok) from squid game. I was frustrated, so left it for a while. A few hours later, I came back and painted the bottom left, and it is my best digital portrait I’ve done so far.

Here are some more portraits I did. I think I’m finally starting to get the hang of this. Before I was really struggling with when/where to use opacity and softness on the brush. I have kind of a basic process now: 1. first sketch layer 2. second sketch layer/lineart 2. underneath sketch, base colors 3. paint over the lineart. It’ll probably change when I get better with multiply layers/clipping masks and all that.

Here’s something I don’t often do: a fully rendered figure drawing. This sort of thing (like backgrounds) is actually way easier to do in photoshop as compared to watercolors. Being able to make big strokes in exactly the color I want (no building up color) makes this so much faster.

Study I did of a photo my family took in Mexico City, I did this mostly as redemption from another family portrait I had done in watercolors and wasn’t happy with. With this painting, I learned how to use a multiply layer for easy shadows.

I’m sorry, but I’ve been a bit busy with school for the last few months. But now I’m free for the summer, ready to learn digital art!

I made this castle. Something new I tried out was: painting in grayscale, then overlaying it over flat colors. 5/9/24

For these two studies, I learned how to use clipping masks, and lock transparent pixels. (dude this made my life SO MUCH EASIER) After doing so many studies, I hope to make some original art soon. 🙂

LOOK AT ME, I MADE SOME ORIGINAL ART! These are my characters, Alannah and Mariana. Are you wondering why they’re blue? Long story short, they’re DnD characters. Also, for the record, they are SISTERS not a couple, I’m not that kind of artist. I think this is getting a lot closer to the art/painting style I want to work in. Next time, I’m gonna try to get a background in there.

Background achieved! (sort of) This is a frame from the Percy Jackson TV show, so I cant take any credit for the composition/color scheme. I tried to stylize, but it ended up pretty busy. I think I can do a bit better than this in the future, especially by using the digital tools to make cleaner, straighter lines and shapes.

Only a background! Nice little village, left it a bit rough. Another BG, this time from imagination. There were real life fires in LA, and they were pretty bad. Not quite this bad though…