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Andy speedpaint by alex-heberling

Since I’m painting backgrounds today, I did a one-hour speedpaint to warm up.  Andy is a character from my magical girl webcomic, The Hues.

I feel like I’ve made some strides in my painting after the last few months!  I can certainly tell a difference in this piece.  I’m not so sure about some of the proportions I ended up with, or the clothing folds, but it’s a good start, and gave me some things to think about if I ever go into full-figure painting.

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Two sketch cards done during the stream.

Sami was inked during the stream, but I did the coloring off-camera.  Honestly, I used a brush on just a whim, and it’s way more effort than I would usually put into a sketch card commission unless I charged extra, so don’t anyone get any big ideas. ;)

Usually I just use a micron to ink these, as I did with Andy.  I would have liked to do more with spot blacks in shading her jacket, but I’m a little gunshy with traditional inking.