#WIPWednesday: Baz Pitch and trialling digital colouring

Hope you’ve all been taking care of yourselves and having a good week thus far!

Today’s WIP is based around ‘Wayward Son’ (‘Simon Snow’, #2) by Rainbow Rowell!

This was one of my favourite linearts to do for 2019 Inktober and I was really excited to try colouring it in Autodesk Sketchbook (free version) – I scanned in the page from my sketchbook and started playing around with brushes and colours. You can see some of the progress photos in the Instagram post below. I’ve never done any digital art before so this was a nice thing to trial.

By far my favourite thing to try out was the time-lapse video (slides 7 and 8 in the Instagram post). I also really loved the blood splatter/faded stain effect I accidentally got when trying to find the right brush to write with (slide 2).

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Happy #wipwednesday !! .. Today I present my first WIP with digital colouring (scanned in a lineart I did on paper) and have only just realised that the iPad I’m using has a glass screen protector, only after about half a year 😂 which is why I’ve been having such trouble with lines and writing. The painting bit seems okay though! .. Swipe for some progress pics and time lapse (the one at the end is basically me having no idea wtf I’m doing 😂) .. I keep accidentally doing things on the same layer and had no idea how to make the white of the original scan layer transparent, but ah well practice makes perfect right? 🌄🌄 Character is Baz Pitch from the ‘Simon Snow’ series by @rainbowrowell and all the text belongs to her! 🌄🌄 (When I was doing the original drawing I tried to find figure references for a tied up person and needless to say they were all *ahem*NSFW so I just scooted out and made it up 😂) 🌄🌄 #bazpitch #tyrannusbasiltongrimmpitch #carryon #carryonbaz #rainbowrowell #rainbowrowellfanart #bazpitchfanart #carryonfanart #waywardson #waywardsonfanart #inktoberinjured #digitalcolouring #digitalart #beginnerdigitalartist #wip #workinprogress #simonsnowseries #autodesksketchbook

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I just need to add some extra linework over the colours (couldn’t figure out how to make the original scan transparent with only the lines visible) and finish the writing – and maybe touch-ups… then hopefully it’ll be done before the end of March!