Mermay 1 🧜♀️ / Within Reach ✨ - Process
Added 2021-04-30 21:42:02 +0000 UTCHi Patrons! 💙
Thank you for all your input on my last post! Your kind words and support really mean a lot to me! 🥰I'm going to be doing a mixture of how I'll post here. However, since I got a head start it looks like I can post a day earlier! Hopefully, I can keep this pace but who knows a lot can happen in a month of drawing! 😅
So it's finally here!! Mermay 2021 🧜♀️🧜♀️! Here's my first Mermay, "Within Reach"! ✨ I wanted to dive into the theme of dreams! This word can imply so many underlying meanings so I want to keep exploring this theme through my paintings!
The process of "Within Reach," starts with my Ipad! For this painting, I used my painterly brushes since I wanted to create a sense of movement with the strokes. The pose was incredibly difficult to do even using my own reference wasn't enough so I had to look up many google references of "person looking up" 😝
For the sea, I used the smudge tool a lot to create a sense of movement within the waves. I made the clouds as light and wispy as possible to create a strong contrast between the crashing waves and the background. I did many colour adjustments in Photoshop so the blues can appear richer and darker! Overall, I'm very happy with this mermaid! 💙💙
Thanks so much for your support everyone, I hope you're all enjoying your Friday! 🥰
Comments
thanks so much for your support Jean!! I used a combination of my custom brushes in Procreate and then transferred it to Photoshop and used Lynn Chen's Photoshop brushes! I also used the smudge tool a lot to create the waves! I
Maxine Vee
2021-05-18 16:24:23 +0000 UTCWonderful! I love your mermay pieces so much! By the way, I bought your brushes and joined your Patreon page. Didn't know the brushes are downloadable for all Patreons! :D Anyway, may i know what brushes you used for this piece, Maxine? :)
Jean Yu
2021-05-18 14:32:13 +0000 UTC
