Queen of Diamonds

Last one of the mini series.

 As you have probably noticed all the queens have their eyes closed. This is because I didn't want the main focus to be the eyes which normally does become the main focus of a portrait since the eyes are the portal to the soul and all that jazz. 

Also the colour pallette isn't massive throughout the mini series with the main focus on the 2 main colours of playing cards of red and black. I used a dark green on the black suits as green complements red and black well. 

I choice a variety of different women to use as references to show diversity and practice drawing lots of different women and people with different skin tones and hair types and styles. It was fun drawing lots of different people. 

Queen of Spades

All the drawing in the mini series like most of my digital drawings are drawn on auto desk sketchbook. This is my preferred digital drawing application as it have used it on my laptop and my galaxy tablet.

 Its interface is easy to navigate so its quick to learn how it works where as when I use Adobe at university I find it a lot harder and I only know what I need to know like the basics and what I have been taught at school and uni. I would love to be a proper professional on most of the Adobe apps but I only really know illustrator,  photoshop, Indesign and after effects but even then since I only use them at uni now, I have not had the time to learn all he features yet. But I want to learn them so much more so I am more confident using all adobe softwares.  

Next year at uni, I promise myself I will learn more about adobe, hope all you readers hold me to this....

One of the biggest positives with auto desk sketchbook is that its free!!!!!! I'm a proper yorkshire lass who loves a bargain and will avoid paying for things where ever possible so I free software that works well and is easy to use is the best thing ever in my opinion!!! 

Most people on Instagram seem to use procreate on ipad but however i am not the biggest fan of apple products so I can not use it on my galaxy tab. Plus it isn't free so thats not so good for me. But the software of procreate looks good and easy to use which is probably why most digital artists on Instagram use it. 

Are you a digital artist? Where software do you use? Comment below

Queen of Clubs

Second drawing of the queen of cards mini series is clubs. To find references for all the drawings in this mini series,  I found photographs of women on Pinterest so they are all based of real women. Using good reference photos from Pinterest helped me get proportions correct so they are well balanced and look like real people which some times I've struggled with for more realistic drawings. Using references is probably one of the best ways to do good portraits so I will always try and find good before trying to do a portrait. Thats a good little artist tip!  And Pinterest is probably the best place to find reference photos as you can easily save the photos you want to use to draw from. 

Maybe I should try give more art tips? If you want any comment on any post and I will try my best to answer your questions.

Queen of Hearts

So this is the start of a new mini series of artwork. This digital art work is called the Queen of hearts. This mini series will be called the Queen of Cards and all the series will be similar drawings to this one. I wanted to focus on getting better at portraits as they are something I've never been the most confident with but doing digital portraits like this are helping me become more confident. I really hope you enjoy this mini series as much I enjoyed making the drawings for it. 

lemons

To kick off summer, I wanted to draw something fun and colourful so I drew some lemons. Lemons make me feel so happy and refreshed. Lemon is one of my favourite flavours and lemonade is one of my favourite draws no matter what type of lemonade it is, whether it's still or sparkling or cloudy or clear. It's all tasty and yummy and refreshing.

tea time

Here is a quick little drawing of a cup of tea. As someone from Yorkshire, I basically only drink Yorkshire tea as it's the best tea around. 

in the sky

For the last prompt, kerry is in the sky floating on clouds and hanging out with the seagulls. With animal adventure week, I have improved my skills and loved drawing different animals and places. I feel like I want to take the character of kerry further and write a whole story about her and her travels around the world seeing lots of animals and habitats. Hope you guys have liked my drawings of kerry for animal adventure week.

swinging through the trees

The next prompt was in the trees so I decided to draw kerry tarzaning through the trees on vines with the lemurs and orangutans. Kerry is nervous about swinging through the trees but enjoys it all the same. 

desert trekking

This is the fifth prompt for animal adventure week that was in the desert. Kerry is riding a camel and sees a meerkat in the dry desert. Fun fact I rode a camel in the Moroccan desert a couple of years ago, I didn't really enjoy the experience of camel riding and felt quite travel sick but it's a life experience and something I ticked off my bucket list. Also on the trip, I camped for the night in the desert and not gonna lie I was one of the best nights sleep I've ever had. Being in the desert was amazing, we saw the sun set ( wasn't up early enough to see it rise) and saw the moon rise. The moon was so beautiful and big. It was a brilliant life experience that I will remember forever. Now back to the drawing, this isn't my favourite drawing by far but I like that it comes with a story. 

under the sea

Fourth prompt for animal adventure week was under the sea. Kerry has changed outfit into a wetsuit to go deep sea diving into the coral reef. She sees lots of sea creatures on her swim like fish, turtles and crabs.