Sat down with my paints and got to swatching! Check out my charts woot! Swatch chart made from my studio palette These are the colors I have in my Studio Palette. I’ll break them down by brand, but they are all mixed up on my palette. All the brands I’ve chosen have fantastic colors, but …
I have spent a good bit of this pandemic reading and getting lost in the YouTube art scene. Seeing so many talented people create beautiful and dreamy compositions really got me excited and gave me the inspiration I needed to get serious about getting on track with improving my skills with physical media again. Deciding …
It’s time for another art challenge!! This time it’s World Watercolor Month! Another month long art challenge and you bet I’m participating and excited to reach that finish line. Amongst all the other things, I’m working on with the comic, and now planning a wedding amidst this pandemic, I’ve added this extra art exercise to …
I come from a long line of Fat black women. Form my grans on both sides, to my aunts, and mother (who only became fat once she had me) I have seen and been a part of being Fat and Black (I get the added bonus of being tall lol) my whole life. Luckily, I …
I want to talk about being Black I want to talk about being Fat I want to talk about being a Lady I want to talk about Art
Over the last (psha when was the last time I posted...hmmnn) year a ton has happened to the world we live in from a societal view. Things are and will be different due to this Pandemic. I find myself thinking how sci-fi this should seem, but it's reality. I was out of work for 6 …
I suck at backgrounds. Well, I find them difficult. They seem so time-consuming and in the background so who cares right? WRONG. Backgrounds set the scene for your world and give your characters a world to live in. without them, they are just floating in the void of space. I know there are shortcuts to …
Today is the first of November and that means Inktober has officially concluded. And this lady completed a piece for every day of the month of October. No matter what I had to do that day, I scheduled the time to work on each Inktober prompt. It was challenging and fulfilling for quite a few …
I sat down to an open word doc and just started word vomiting everything that came to my head about my main character. That spread to the supporting cast and then a bunch of random interactions. Everything flowed out so naturally and I remember thinking this is it. I'm aces at this and this isn't …
Almost dying definitely put my life into perspective. That experience made me prioritize things that make me most happy in life and what I want to do with the time I have left. I went to college for art, but not the art I wanted to do. I wanted to make comics. I had pages …
A Lady's Musings 