About Time

Hello everyone!

My name is Katy Lamatsch, and after months of debating I finally caved and made myself an art blog. A little about myself; I am 22 years old and I've always loved art since I could hold a pencil. Though I do dabble in a little digital art, my preferred is traditional. I will be posting my finish works, but also some process shots as well.

Anyway, I figured I'll start my first post with a bang. Here is a picture of a harpy that I finished the other day. For the design I looked at various photos of hawks and falcons.

When creating this piece I used Copic markers with a little colored pencils for the final details. Here's the line art.

For base of the body I used E41, E81, and E42.

For the wings I used E37, E77, and E47.

 Using the same colors I used for the wing, I started adding the patterns.

 I only used one color for the hair, E87.

 With the skin I gave it a base coat of the colorless blender, and then started the the deepest shadow, BV20. After that I just messed around with some more skin colors until I was happy with the result. The main colors for the skin is E31, E50, E51, and a hint of R12 for blush.

 Working on the moon. Based coat is YR30. I wanted the moon to be yellow/orange color, so I just added some colors where necessary. The darkest shadow has some BV20.

 I darkened her feathers more with YG91(One of my favorite shading colors to use), and then I went in with some colored pencils to darken it further.

 

Close ups:

And I'm done!

I hope you guys enjoyed that. It feels great having a blog, and I do plan on updating. :)

Questions for you:

What mythological creatures do you find interesting?