Xaemia Rising

Skillshare

This project had a double purpose: one is to serve as a teaching tool to other artists and another is a gift for a friend. I aimed the target audience at people who were just starting digital art and didn’t have the steps to work in the medium.

I had to create a colorful piece that illustrated the steps of underpainting all the way to a finished product of my friend’s character. It was originally a birthday gift, so it was a surprise. The goal was to attract new students to my Skillshare page so more people could learn how to under paint and finish coloring their pieces. What made it challenging was that I had to actually list out all the steps I take to complete a project. Which was difficult for someone like me who changes the steps every few paintings.

My insight into the illustration process was used to complete this project. I approached this project by taking a line-art and filling out the base colors first. I then shaded the character before adding in a background to fill the rest of the illustration. After the shading was complete, I lit the subject with warm and cool colors to showcase the different light sources. The troubling part I came to was painting the dragons. I knew I wouldn’t be able to use my normal painting process in order to complete it. I painted with blending modes for the dragons since it would preserve the transparency. My strategy was to work fast and efficiently with fewer layers. I ended up merging down layers when they no longer needed to be separated once I was done with them. The results were over the moon. Not only did I create my first class on coloring for beginners, I reached 3,128 students in all that time!

This was a BEAST of a class. The class isn't long in length, but it is when you're a beginner and you're trying to get every detail of what she's saying while practicing the tips as well, it feels very long. but very informative class. I learned SO much. I would definetly recommend it to beginners looking into it! I'm relatively new to sketching on a screen tablet for digital art, so this helped ALOT with my skill level. I've been a seasoned artist for years now, but i'm a student as always. You should definetely check this class out whether you're a beginner or any level i feel. A lot of interesting and great info. However, this is a really informative class. Take breaks every now and then if it's too much for you, cause it is a lot of info. Make sure to practice after she says certain things on your own tablet so that the tips can be more comfortable to you. Grateful to have a teacher like her!:)

Awesome class with helpful examples! Thank you Sydney!

I loved this class it really help me a lot, im a newbie on the painting stuff so this help a lot thank you!