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Switchin’ gears and working on a spring-themed enamel pin collection!🌸😆 I’m usually too self-conscious to share these in-process design sketches as they’re often very crude and subject to much change, but I want get better at showing bits of the products I’m working on instead of a SURPRISE! Drop at the end 😆 Anyway the theme is spring critters and I want the pins to be smoll and cute so they’re very wearable 😽 I’m obsessed with the cheeky little expressions on their faces 😂 If I want them in hand by end of April I need to send these out like, yesterday 😅 so.. wish me luck! EDIT: Go vote in my instastory and help me pick my BEE design!😺🐝🧡 . . . #wip #designprocess #enamelpindesign #springcritters #kitschycute #smolltings #artistatwork #sketchbookpage #sketchbookthings #sketchbooktour #vintageinspired #retrocartoonstyle #cutebugs #cutecritters #artistonig #yowartist #chrishongart
Just been grinding away on this painting the past few days, I think it’s the most challenging gouache painting I’ve tackled so far 😨 and at this point I’m not entirely confident I can totally pull it off. There are so many elements to juggle and keep track of and I feel myself fighting the medium, but I’ll keep trying 🎨😂 . . . #gouacheishard #whygouachewhy #gouachepainting #gouacheillustration #wip #paintinginprogress #onebrushstrokeatatime #finishednotperfect #traditionalpainting #makearteveryday #canadianartists #yowartist #artyoutuber #artistonig #chrishongart
Today we set sail on a new journey!🎨It will be long and perilous. Tears may or may not be shed along the way😹But one thing’s for certain, great lessons will be learned 🤓😤💪(disclaimer: this photo was taken a week ago and I’ve already started on it haha just picking it back up again today!)And before anyone asks yes I’ll be doing a video showing how I TRANSFER my drawings for painting! Just give me some time!😆🧡😘
Here’s how this study turned out! So things started to go downhill FAST from the point I last showed you guys, but I managed to save it from the brink😂 (the next photo is where I thought all hope was lost, everything is mushy!). I just threw my hands up and decided to take a more graphic approach by incorporating some straight lines to give the face and hair more structure and style and now I like it so much more, whew!😅This was done on my custom sketchbook btw, and I would say it’s great for study purposes like this, and if you don’t use nearly as much water as I do you can probably get away with less buckling!💦 The surface is very smooth like hot-press paper and so it’s easy to draw on and erases very well!😃 more info can be found in the shop, link to my website is in bio!☺️🧡 PS: the model is from “Lucy and Yek”, I don’t know her name, she’s a cutie!😍 . . . #watercolorprocess #watercolorpainting #customsketchbook #artistmade #artistsketchbook #mixmediasketchbook #smallbusinesssupport #artistmadegoods #independentartists #kitschycute #gnomefriends #sketchbookpage #portraitpainting #portraitstudy #paintingpractice #artyoutuber #youtubeartist #redhairdontcare #chrishongart