Digital Painting on Clip Studio

A step-by-step "slideshow" of my digital painting process and how I made this last piece: A cute manga girl- that happens to be a caricature of myself. One of my best friends said it was a "top-Tier
Waifu" :`)

On Slip Studio Paint, lower the hardness level and boost the color stretch for a really smooth blend!

And done! I simplified the eyes in the end and added an orange gradient with low opacity over the top to make everything warmer.

Backgrounds and Props in Storytelling

I've realized most of my Webtoon characters always interact in an open void, surrounded by speech balloons and white-space.

I've started implementing partial backgrounds as much as I can in Not So Generic. Tables, half-walls, half-tables- it honestly looks a little funny, but these little props do their job in grounding the characters and conveying actual environments my characters inhabit.

Eventually, I want to draw comprehensive digital backgrounds. I'm starting with these simple backgrounds to experiment with color and line. Backgrounds such as these allow me to add more depth to the stories I tell in my webtoon Not So Generic.

The Pencil Tool

For the most part, I only use the pen tool, but for these following illustrations, I wanted a more raw, sketchy feeling. The pencil tool has a very grainy appearance throughout and a light overlay, so it will get darker and darker as you go over the same spot.

I find delight in learning to convey all emotions, even the deepest and most minute. Not only do I want to convey joy, pride, gratitude- but sorrow too.

This chibi is traditional. I used markers and a few pencils to convey the sea water. Though I had a little practice with the digital one, I by far prefer the traditional one! :`D

Character Commissions

A little peek at some of my favorites of the Tier 4 character commissions I drew this week. If you're interested in a chibi commission, the original commission post is here.
I've really enjoyed working with the people these characters belong to!

The first commission I drew in this batch was for Melody, the author, and artist of  'Sol et Luna', a cutesy and humorous slice of life webcomic about Melody and her boyfriend Sol.

Another commission I enjoyed was Conrad for a fantasy author. He's pretty cute :`) I've been experimenting with colored lines, and adding a few more colors to my skin tones, like how I added peach to Conrad's fingers, under his eyes, and tips of his ears.

Superhero Digital Art

I am pretty proud of this one! I've been learning how to use CSP for the past couple months. As you can see in some of my most recent digital pieces, I've been experimenting with not only different but multiple different line colors. 

This is my superhero OC 'Outlook', a techno-human. I used different line colors for both hair and skin, and then unified them by outlining the entire picture with a darker line.

Right now I take the color of the hair, skin, clothing, etc. and just drag the color picker a little further down and on the gray side of the color wheel.

Inktober Manga Art

Keeping up with Inktober can be difficult; the ultimate challenge to create one ink drawing, in tandem with the prompts or not, for each day of October.

Some of the prompts have been inspiring or have made me think outside the box. Other days I'm swamped with essay work.

Here are four of my #Inktober2018 Ink drawings.

I challenged my younger siblings to Inktober and told them if they worked hard at drawing one ink piece a day, I'd post their art here as well! We'll see what kinds of art the end of October brings!

Character Commissions (Closed!)

Character Commision tiers

Commission Just Beckah Art for your original characters!

These tiers can be commissioned by sending a donation to my new Pointe shoe fund! Donations are made through PayPal to Heartshape7@yahoo.com.

This is my last year taking and teaching dance classes. I've never been able to afford my own pointe shoes. This year, I'm going to buy the shoes, take the classes, and kick butt in my last 7 months of dance. To win. To catch my dream.

Fill out an Order form to commission a character:

Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

Tier 4

Read to the end of this post BEFORE filling out your order form.

Tier 1: $5 Chibi, Traditional, B+W

Tier one commissions will be emailed to you within 24 hours! They will be sketchy and will resemble the following examples. For $7 you can commision 'Chibi, Traditional, color'!

Tier 2: $7 Manga, Traditional, B+W

Tier 2 characters are drawn in pencil, with a sketched, artsy look. Art delivered within 2 days! Both Manga tiers, 2 and 3, will be traditionally drawn.

+$3 If you want to add a second character to your order!

!!PREMIUM TIERS!!

Tier 3: $9 Manga, Traditional, Inked or Color

Customizable look; Colored pencil, ink, digital line art, or marker. Emailed within one week of ordering. Expressive and original, see your character come to life!

Tier 4: $9 Chibi, Digital, Color

As awesome ipod home screens, cool T-Shirt designs, or framed on your wall- These DESERVE to be tier 4. Professional, bold, and printable!
Art will be emailed to within one week of ordering.
It's possible to get a digital Manga version for a slightly higher price!

These last two are my most recent works! +$5 If you want to add a second character to your order!

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• +$5 for a background!
• Only one character in a drawing, unless you pay the $4 extra-character fee for Tier 1 and 2, and or 6$ for Tiers 3 and 4.
• No NSFW commissions.
• Yes, I can draw pets with your character, and
• YES half-humans, furries, mythical races are all allowed! They make things interesting.
• I will post characters in installments here on my blog, and send an email with your fully-rendered art piece.
• Specify what file type you prefer (JPEG, TIFF, PNG etc.) and the size.
• Donaters who commissioned a character from Tier 3 may also request a Tier 1 level character with no extra cost.
• I will be working on 5 characters at a time. I reserve the right to refuse service or discontinue commissions. 
• I will begin work on your commission when I see your email in Paypal.

I look forward to working with you and helping you visualize your fabulous characters! 

Email Rebeckahbrink@gmail.com with any questions or concerns!

What is the Best Paper for Inking?

Inktober prompt 12: "Whale." Drawn on a sketchpad.

      I don't have an answer.

      I've been through a lot of paper, a lot being thousands and thousands of sheets and hundreds of dollars worth of paper. Construction, copy, cardstock, marker, sketchpads, Paris boards, Hammermill- I feel like I've been through it all.
Yet my pen nib still catches on the paper, my ink still bleeds through or fans out. I thought I had hit the gold at the end of the rainbow when I found Hammermill! And was consequently disappointed when only the thinnest lines remained smooth.

      Is it my ink? Are my nibs too old? I'm uncertain. My quest continues!

Sept Sketches: Manga

A little bit of digital line art for you! One of my old characters Alex is now a hot brick house that'd come up in a google search of 'hot red-heads under 25'. I liked to see the improvement! (I redrew a 2017 drawing, upper left, but made it super smol 'cuz it was bad :`)

I love this one! ^^^i felt really inspired; the quotation that was written on it is my own! I used my blick markers and my LePens on this one.

SKETCH

PEN

PENCIL

The above was created for the 'Posion' prompt of #Inktober2018. Tried to think outside the box on this one! Yes, that is the ocean.

Another cutie piece of  Katsuki and Izuku from My Hero Academia!

My art is the poetry of my soul. Each thought, pain, love, and joy to full to express in words is written into the lines of my characters.

Sept Sketches 1: Chibis

Ah! The trepidation of redrawing everything!! Made a chibi comic about 

how comics are made you can find here!

I absolutely love My Hero Academia. My art friends and I all have our own hero personas! Below are my drawings of my own and two of my friends. PLUS ULTRA!

And a few monotone chibi nekos in the mix this time! 

I've never watched adventure time; but I'm considering it.

Follow my on twitter for fanart, WIPs, and constant updates on my comic! My handle is JustBeckah!