New Works (Mostly digital for once!)

[sapphirekat]

Hi guys! I know I haven't posted here in a while- I've been busy with a multitude of projects.
Anyways, for the past half year or so, I've started to expand into the digital realm, as well as a bit of fashion illustration.





This is the series that rekindled my interest in digital. I had to buy a new tablet after the old one completely died on me, and to my delight I discovered it was twice as sensitive as the old one. Finally, I could draw on the computer without everything stiffening up!
These guys are Candy, Bat & Suzi, and Deevy. Hard to tell at this size, but Deevy's shoes have gun barrel heels.
This was almost my first experiment with fashion illustration. Next, I did... basically fan art for some of my favorite indie brands.




Fable & Fury. Pen and digital.


For Strange Women. Pen and digital.


Black. Pen and digital with a light touch of photo-manipulation.
Then I had an epiphany, and suddenly I understood Illustrator:




Women in Suits trio. One of them turned into an unintentional self portrait. I turned it into an intentional one:


From there I tried to do a trio of pencil/digital illustrations of women with semi-shaved heads, but I uh, only liked one:


I am not posting the other two. They. Were. Terrible.
And then I went back to my True Love, gouache:





Mini paintings! Much more graphic than my previous work, but I like them!
Then...back to pure digital with two illustrations:



Lady Acid on top, Sometimes I Don't Know Myself on the bottom. Lady Acid was made for a business card design, Sometimes was a print made specifically for the Pink Parlour event.
Also made for Pink Parlour:


MORE ACEOS. This was also the first time I used markers seriously, and I fell in art love. They're great. I'm never going back.

Thanks for looking! I have no idea when I can post again, but next time I'll have my Character Design work. The concept is a futuristic, transhuman version of Sleeping Beauty where Aurora is the first AI!


Cross-posted to....a lot of places. Sorry if I show up more than once on your f-list!

Comments

[amethystfirefly]

Oooh. I really, really love your style!

[sapphirekat]

Thanks! This is a newer one- about a year ago I was only doing "realism with CMYK colors and Mucha elements", but now I'm comfortable enough to go back to the more cartoony, graphic stuff.

[lark_ascends]

Very cool.

[sapphirekat]

Thank you!

[white_rabbit]

Ohhh, I agree! I just LOVE everything about your style. Especially the bold use of colour and contrast! :D

[sapphirekat]

Thanks! It's funny, right before I started art school, I vowed to only work in black/white/red because...color wasn't dark enough for my vision, or some other moody 17 year old reason.

Then in my first term I learned color theory and gouache and never went back.

[supermouse]

Glad to see it!

[ex_pippin880]

Oh wow, your linework and your colours, oh wow.

[sapphirekat]

Aw, thank you!

[peculiar_mind]

Looks awesome, I really love the style :)

[sapphirekat]

Thank you!