digital_art

Gradient maps

| Alex/Elliot/Ricky

Hail and well met nerds, geeks, and dorks! Elle here. Today I’m going to share my experience with one of Procreate’s new features, gradient maps!

At first they confused me a lot. I had no clue what the heck you’re supposed to use these things for. But I eventually figured it out! AH you need to do is make your drawing in black and white then layer the gradient map over it.

So I wanted to share the three pieces I drew this week using gradient maps.

I hope you guys enjoy. Leave a comment below, I’d love to talk to you! Remember, you’re going to be amazing. Look to the stars. Aim. Ignite!

Fanart Friday AND Redraw Saturday!

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Hail and well met nerds, geeks, and dorks. Elle here. Today I’m going to post my Redraw Saturday a day early because I actually redrew (is that a word?) one of my first fanarts for HSMTMTS. Brace yourselves, it’s from my realism phase…

I had a ton of fun drawing this. I hope you guys enjoy. Leave a comment below, I’d love to talk to you! Remember, you’re going to be amazing. Look to the stars. Aim. Ignite!

Redraw Saturday!

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Hail and well met nerds, geeks, and dorks. Elle here. I’m going to try to post more than weekly, so I’m creating a specific schedule for different types of posts.

The original drawing is about a year old, before I could even draw digitally. I have no clue what I was thinking, but I saw it and just instantly wanted to redraw it.

I hope you guys enjoy. Leave a comment below, I’d love to talk to you! Remember, you’re going to be amazing. Look to the stars. Aim. Ignite!

Monthly wrap up!

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Hail and well met nerds, geeks, and dorks. Elle here. Yet another month of blogging has gone by and I’m excited to see what September brings. Now, enough cheesyness, let’s get into the post!

Five favorite characters

  • Aubrey Little (TAZ)
  • Gwen Stacy (Marvel)
  • Bobby (Diary of a Future President)
  • Piper McLean (Heroes of Olympus)
  • Jack Skeleton (The Nightmare Before Christmas)

Favorite song

This is me (The Greatest Showman)

Favorite show

The Babysitters Club (2020)

Favorite book

Faith: Taking Flight (Julie Murphy)

Goals

Last month

  • Gain more followers
  • Post fewer tags and more art
  • Review more books

Success? Sure, we’ll call it that.

This month

  • Stay on schedule
  • Post more original art
  • Get art shop up and running

Favorite fan art

It’s still literally just this thingy. I’m super proud of this, especially because it was my first time ever shading something.

Favorite original art

My meet the artist was super fun to draw and I enjoyed working on it.

So that’s that (on that). I hope you guys enjoy. Leave a comment below, I’d love to talk to you! Remember, you’re going to be amazing. Look to the stars. Aim. Ignite!

Tag Announcement

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Hail and well met nerds, geeks, and dorks. Elle here. Today I wanted to share a few details about a tag I’m working on. And, if you have any ideas, you guys can comment ideas for a title for it because my mind has blanked. Also, this is my 50th post here!

The tag basically is a challenge. To share how fictional characters changed your life. You can create any form of art, writing, drawings, etc. but it must show how they impacted you.

I’m working on an animation for mine and I’m really excited to share it with you!

And because I have no art that goes with this, here’s a random drawing/art print I drew a bit ago.

I hope you guys enjoy. Leave a comment below, I’d love to talk to you! Remember, you’re going to be amazing. Look to the stars. Aim. Ignite!

Yet another announcement + sneak peek at new art print series

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Hail and well met, nerds, geeks, and dorks. Elle here. Sorry about the long title. As it says, I have another announcement, I will no longer be posting everyday. I’m going to try every week and see how that works. But my family and I started school again, so I haven’t had as much sitting around doing nothing time.

But I’m also starting an online art print shop that will be set up soon! I’m already working on a series of prints for you guys. If you want to suggest a print you can contact me HERE! So, without further ado, here is a sneak peek at my first art print series!

I hope you guys enjoy! Leave a message below, I’d love to talk to you! Remember, you’re going to be amazing. Look to the stars. Aim. Ignite!

Announcement + old speedpaint

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Hail and well met nerds, geeks, and dorks. Elle here. Today I have a slightly sad announcement. The Elements is not going to be a comic anymore. Because I’m going into high school and have multiple other projects, I will be writing this just as a book. I still plan to illustrate some pages in the book, but it will not be a full comic.

Sadly I don’t have any new content for you guys, so I have the speedpaint from my HSMTMTS dnd art thingy with the shading.

I hope you guys enjoy. Leave a comment below, I’d love to talk to you! Remember, you’re going to be amazing. Look to the stars. Aim. Ignite!

Drawing process video

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Hail and well met nerds, geeks, and dorks. Elle here. I decided to try making a drawing process video to share what I do when drawing and shading.

Would you guys like to see more stuff like this? Leave a comment below, I’d love to talk to you! Remember, you’re going to be amazing. Look to the stars. Aim. Ignite!

Peggy Carter fanart

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Hail and well met nerds, geeks, and dorks. Elle here. I don’t think I’ve mentioned this, but I love Agent Carter. Both the show and the character. She is amazing.

I hope you guys enjoy. Leave a comment below, I’d love to talk to you! Remember, you’re going to be amazing. Look to the stars. Aim. Ignite!