u/mollie_rae

All 3 are still available on my eBay: Raedrops

I made this set of pet portraits for my aunt who has stage 4 cancer. She’s been struggling a lot lately and I just hope these will cheer her up a bit. She’s one of the kindest people I know and she really loves her dogs a lot. Made using watercolor and colored pencils 💕

I’ve been working on this one for a few days now and I asked for some help with the perspective, so hopefully I fixed that okay!

I wasn’t entirely sure what to do for a background for this one though. Someone suggested it would look nice with an oval frame around it and I 100% agree!! But without anything bordering the oval, it looked a little plain. So I added the leaves, but now I’m wondering if they detract from the character or not? Are they a bit distracting?

My other idea is to have the rabbit standing in a meadow and then I could try and do more of a simple border. But I am making a series of drawings like this with different characters and I want it to match the vibe of the first one I did. For that one I sort of just implied the surroundings with a solid color background. So I could imply there’s a meadow there? Idk, thoughts?

I made this on procreate and the vibe I’m going for is like a Beatrix potter/ Calico Critter (aka Sylvian Families) inspired kind of thing. I did use a couple of references that I included in my first post about the sketch, but I can add them again if needed :)

Hi! I use procreate and this is my cleaned up sketch. I want to make sure my proportions and perspective is okay and that nothing looks wrong. First image is my sketch, the rest are references.

My goal is kind of a combination of a Beatrix potter, studio ghibli and calico critters/Sylvain families kind of a vibe. A lot of that is in the rendering of course but I want to make sure the sketch also conveys that in the overall composition and proportions and everything. I mostly want to make sure my rabbit’s proportions are okay and the perspective of the easel works.

I’m hoping to make two versions of this image. One like this of just the character and the easel, and another that’s more of an actual full scene.

For the more detailed drawing, I was thinking of making the background a meadow scene or something. But let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions of cute things to add! I’m planning to make a whole series of these animal characters with cozy jobs :)

Title and concept based on the song by Mars Argo

My goal is a dreamy effect. The first one is with a peach overlay at a low opacity and the second is without. Both use desaturated colors. Does the overlay make it too washed out? And am I losing depth by using desaturated colors?

I’m hoping to make prints of it too so that is also something I need to take into consideration.

Any other critique is also welcome! :)

I’m still new to the watercolor and colored pencil combo, but I think she turned out cute ☺️

This was my first time making an ACEO! :) I made it with water color, colored pencil, and ink. It’s definitely not perfect, there are some things I would want to change if I could 🥲 drawing at this size is hard!! But I think she turned out cute, what do you think? :)

I feel like most commission artists I see either do like an anime style or like animal portraits. I know really anyone with any style can get commissions if they sell themselves well. I’m just wondering if there’s really a market for this kind of art. I’m not sure who my target audience would be or what I’d even charge for something like these

I’m still somewhat new to digital art. Recently I’ve been doing some style studies, mostly just portraits. I was just going to do a portrait again, but decided to actually attempt a background this time. I got a new foliage brush that I wanted to try.

Any critique welcome but specifically would like critique on composition, textures, and lighting. I know the figure should be in shadow since the light source is behind her and she’s got the building behind her too, but I was struggling with making her in shadow while still having her be visible. Is the lighting believable?

Also, my goal with the style is to make it kind of dreamy looking so the lower contrast is on purpose :)

I was kinda lazy with the background lol. I think the hair could use more texture too 🤔

I finally feel like I’m getting somewhere with my style studies :)

16 years old before art school vs 24 years old after. This is the oldest photo of my art that I have. I don’t have any older art than this because it was lost in a house fire. Most recent art is a mix of digital and traditional. I think in 8 years I’ve improved a lot with anatomy and now I’m working on stylization :) girl in the snow is my most recent. I think I’m getting somewhere with finding my style finally

I realized recently that I’ve gotten stuck in realism. So this is my attempt to break out of it and try different styles as well as learn how to do digital art!

In order: dark fantasy, Impressionism, Renaissance, storybook, rococo, graphic, sketchy
This is also the order of recency.

I’ve learned a lot doing this!! I think I’ve improved a lot on a digital workflow and I’ve also learned a lot about what I like in a drawing.

I genuinely hate some of these lol. But I also really love some of them too. The storybook and graphic ones are my least favorite, but I still learned from doing them :)

Next I’m planning on doing another series of style studies where I start combing what I’ve learned and what I like!

How can I improve with this style? I feel like it’s just not quite right :/ should I use a more textured brush? Should I change up the colors more? I was going for kind of a Monet style but with a slightly more realistic rendering of the face. I’m not trying to copy the style exactly, I’m just trying to learn how to use more texture and be looser with my digital paintings after doing realism for so long. Also trying to learn how to be more creative with colors. I had attempted to layer colors a lot but I don’t think that fully came through. I like how Monet has such soft muted colors but I don’t think I fully achieved that here.
Reference is 2nd photo.

Was doing a renaissance painterly style study. I know the sketch or any sort of line art wouldn’t be shown when done traditionally but I kind of like it with the sketch showing through? But I also like it without. I’m having trouble deciding.

Also, I’m having a hard time moving away from my background of realism which is why I’ve been doing style studies like this. Would you say this is painterly or is it too realistic?