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Stenciling, Rose

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Following are progress pieces....

Wipe sheets.......

Back Again

Sort of...

As mentioned earlier, I have been working on a collection of small painted illustrations for a book promotion. Twenty one of them in varying degrees of complexity. Now they are finished. But now some new works need yo be completed very quickly for another promotion, and I can’t post them here either, so, this site will still languish except for what Sarah Y. cares to post. 

But, I have some “wipe sheet” little pieces in progress, which may turn into fairy tale works for little ones in the States. I plan to head there shortly - if the world holds together - for the birth of our twin grandchildren, and I will then take the collected watercolors and whatnot from the months’ painting since I was there last, to distribute. 

So, here will follow some in-progress pieces. This one was an old small canvas panel that surfaced in some clearing out and packing, along with a few more that probably also will get the same treatment. I will just add paint, stenciling, maybe collage and whatever, and see what comes of it /them.

How I found it....

Paint added to cover open spots and rough spots....

....to be Continued.

It's Almost September Already

 

I don't have any finished works or new pieces in progress to share this week, so here's a picture of the beginnings of my September BuJo page:

 

 

The younger of my two sisters working on the dog webcomic with me has finally been able to get a job, and decided she could not be a reliable party to finish the rest of the comic with us; but the other sister and I have declared we will keep plugging away at it, dividing between us the extra tasks that the younger sister had covered before.

Basically, it will be finished, but not quickly. And it won't look exactly the same as when we started out, but it should be pretty close. And taking a while to finish is better than not finishing at all, to us at least. XD

 

And then there's Real Life, which I am 78.3% done with.

*internal screaming*

Patience, right? God is still in control.

A Cover

For A Confirmation Book

With metallic lettering

A Bit More

Mostly Other Things

I have been putting all spare hours into acrylic painting illustrations for book promotion project. So this little work isn’t getting much attention.

First Time I Dabble in Animation (Digitally)

I messed with a little animation for the first time last week. I don't know why...but there it is, haha...

 

The GIF version:

 

I used my character Deirdre's eyes, and wasn't really paying attention to making the art look great or right or fabulous; I was just trying out the animation tools in Clip Studio Paint, haha.

I got a couple of in-progress screen grabs:

The blue lines were like the sketch layer over the top to help me figure out the in-betweens or whatever you call it. XD

With the "onion skin" layers activated, so you can see what was in the frames before and after to help line things up

I ended up rearranging the thing into the reverse order of how I drew it, though, because it looked like the eyes were slowly closing and then snapping open again quickly, like someone trying not to fall asleep, when it was the other way, haha!

Altogether, it was only eight frames and four drawings, and I am guessing it took me about five hours total (I never remember to keep careful track of my time, especially when something is not finished in one sitting/day...)? I don't know how "smooth" the animation is, but it was definitely a fun needless diversion from my normal art pursuits. XD
 

 

(My siblings and I played around with a tiny bit of that kind of flip-book-drawing animation doodles when we were kids, but idk if that counts as animation, haha)

 

(Also I noticed the dates on blog posts and the commenting options are all in English now? Is it like that for everyone? Was it an automatic thing or was it changed deliberately? Anyway, I'm not sure I like it, haha. I miss seeing "keine kommentare" and "Montag" and 24 hour time stamps lol)