Imogen's Sketchbook of '22

[miimogenation]

Thank you oh so much JosephCow for your kind words <3


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WIP.  Little Thief .2

In other news I decided to redo one of my old art pieces (which I LOVE) but truly wish I'd put the time and energy into painting the tree, leaves. sky, birds etc.. as I did in doing the Magpie (and pocket watch sort of).  By the time I'd done that much I grew tired and just 'cheated' and used premade brushes / stamp brushes to add the rest of the image - even though they clearly don't fit in perspective, value, style etc..  Perhaps a naked winter / dead tree would have been better in this LAZY situation.  {Not saying there's anything wrong with using those kind of brushes / stamp brushes.. - but when it's done well!!}

Which may I add this art was done in an old version of Adobe Photoshop and with my laptop track pad as at that time I didn't own a graphics tablet.

However.  Here we are in 2022 (some 8 years or so later) and I've decided to do a ainting based on this previous work (Magpie - Autumnal Tree - Pocket Watch).  Here we are 6 hours or so later and I think I'm FINALLY happy enough with the 'line art' that I can start to paint (over) it.

I really did STRUGGLE with the feet, but found a Magpie very similar in posted compared to my original work.  And I tried my best..  All images were googled; for help in reference for drawing only.

Here is how it's going..  WIP:
iPad Pro 19.5" - Apple Pencil 2 - ProCreate
New art 25.06.22  apx  6 hours sketching / drawing / refining.




Ps. Yes I copy pasted a bunch of leaves BUT they won't look the same once painted.