"I Can Finally Leave... Martha Sis I'm Coming Home Sweety"

"I can finally leave... Martha Sis I'm coming home sweety"

"I'M BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN"

Working on yet another ultra-detailed map....

"You don't even have to show it to anyone"

I feel like if more people kept this in mind, they'd be less stressed about making art. It's so easy to fall into the pit making stuff for the sake of showing it off or for approval. It's a surefire way of burning yourself out. Don't forget why you like to create, with any luck it's because while you create, you make yourself happy first and foremost.

"The first person you should think of pleasing, (when creating something), is yourself" -Patricia Highsmith

Please make art. You don't have to bare your soul or make a masterpiece, you can be silly and you can be derivative if you want. You don't even have to show it to anyone. Just please make something, it's so good for you

*puts a magnifying glass in your hands*

Close-ups of one of the maps I'm most proud of

All the details were done by hand, each pencil stroke, and I can't believe I actually had the patience for it all

Full version under the cut

Drawing and painting all the tiny locations taught me a lot, and I'm grateful I got commissioned to work on such a beautiful map. Only thing I regret is that it's so big so many details are lost, when looking at it so I made this post so the close up views might do them justice

Gonna use my Photoshop skills to create Thistle's spellbook brb

Making of Thistle's Spellbook

Top part is coming along nicely...

Crying... how do I... what?

Fine. Let's use our brain for this. So we're gonna use a feather shape on a stick within a group as guide to keep the angle mostly uniform, we'll get rid of them later.

Once I started blocking out the shapes, I began adding effects in, just to test them first

The wings were a real struggle... I did them on a regular layer and used a mask to chip away the thin detail of the lines

Making sure I have both versions (manga and anime). A deep reddish version for the manga one and a golden one to match the one that appears in the anime

The golden "wheel" in the center was actually easier than the rest even though I did have to think a bit on how exactly I would go about it. In the end I used the polygon shape to make the spiked circle then made copies to make the inner rings. As for the eye I made 1/4 of it then mirrored it until I had the full eye

Had to tweak the colors quite a bit, but I used Color Overlay for all my shapes, making it easy to change the color at any point

After about 6 hours, and lots of tweaking and blasting music in the background to stay sane it was finally complete.

Spellbook post

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