Hello! Reminder you can follow me on bluesky if you want to see wips and other such nightmares! I have also finally put some things on my print shop! Thank you for following me and I hope you are all well my friends ☀️
Hi!! I LOVE your style and artwork!! I was wondering if you were thinking about uploading some of your newer work to be sold as prints? No pressure ofc! Thank you for creating!!! 💗💗💗
Thank you so much for your lovely words, I’m flattered! I’m sorry my print shop is so barren, I‘ll get some more things up very soon. Let me know if there’s anything in particular you’re after. Thank you again kind anon, I very much appreciate your support 💗💗💗
the way you use shapes in your art is absolutely phenomenal... is there any particular way you approach shape design? or do you just go off of intuition?
Thank you lovely anon for your kind words! I do everything on a wing and a prayer but I’ll share my process with you!
Initially I just try to get everything down in blobs. I don’t use references so this is all a terrible, freehand mess, but at this point I am prioritising colours and placement and not thinking too hard about the final design. Here are my initial sketches for this stage:
Now it is time to think about the shapes. To avoid tears I use a grid - here I’m using an isometric one. You can think of geometric motifs in terms of shapes being pieced together, in much the same way a quilter would. (If you have procreate there are two lovely grid overlays that give you nice straight lines if you turn on drawing assist.)
Here is what things look like with the overlay and after fixing into place; you can see I did this in two parts in the drawing process after randomly changing my mind about the colours.
Now I’ve got everything neatly in place I can turn off the grid to add detail or move things about - all I’ve done here is curved some of the straight edges and added some gradient detail. Here is the overall process all together:
I hope this helps but please do let me know if you need further clarification! Also bear in mind that pre-2017 I did all this in photoshop on an intuos 3 without grids by coping and pasting the shape tool (I categorically do not recommend this method.) If anyone else has any questions, I’ll try my best to help whoever who needs it. 💖
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