Wild Magic Process

“If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us, that you want.” He added, “The madness was to teach you something. You should mind the lesson.” - The badger to Daine in her dream

FINALLY finished Daine up! She is my favorite of the trio, the first Tamora Pierce book I read, and the reason I have a lifelong love for animals. Started this cover first before Alanna and Kel but finished it last because I wanted to get her just right. Daine is riding her pony Cloud, and has a bow in hand ready to shoot. Numair is flying by her side in a (more colorful) falcon form and the Badger god is in the background. I choose to focus on patterning and cloth to reflect Daine’s growing up in a small mountain village- and it also relates the threads of Wild Magic itself.

The set of prints are for sale on my website here: http://kelseyeng.tictail.com/ (also I post slightly more frequently to instagram here: www.instagram.com/kelseyeng32)

Witchy From Bhutan Process

1. Line drawings - (I thought of the three poses on the left first and based the right most one off of them).

2.  Adding local color - Started to add color on a Multiply layer to figure out the composition. It is great if I have the anatomy figured out at this stage, but the gesture is what's most important.

3. Build a library of reference images - At this point (or even before) I grab photo reference from the internet and have it scattered around my photoshop document. Not all of them will be useful, but it's helpful to have a lot in case you need to change direction. 

4. Then the next steps are just continue to refine and add paint. I might make a gif of one of the witchies, stay tuned :)