During university I had a great teacher who taught me the secret of dynamic lines, which pushed my skill level and became one of my trademarks. This technique, along with experimenting with different processes and styles in the eight years since graduating, has helped to shape my current art style. Creating characters, telling stories and keeping the viewer curious is what keeps me motivated and happy every day.
In this workshop, I’ll be showing you how I play around with movement during my painting process. I created a similar-looking artwork for a social media post earlier this year, in which I revealed that I was going to launch my Patreon account at the end of April. In a lovely coincidence, Mermay was just around the corner. So I decided to go with a mermaid. This also fitted with the topic of my first online tutorial, in which I explained about the Line of Action. Et voilà: my two trademarks – mermaids and dynamic lines – combined perfectly for my news.
Afterward, I spotted a couple of mistakes in the original piece. So I decided to redraw it completely and make it worthy of being on the cover of ImagineFX!
How I create…
A CHARACTER PIECE THAT FLOWS
1 Playing around with lines
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