Time lapse videos: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
You can view this image on DeviantART here as well.

In September I had a burst of inspiration for Slade’s story (during my exam time, how lovely >>).
As well as story development and character redesigning, it prompted this Halloween-themed picture of her (the witch), Caleb (the vampire), and Rowan (the pirate) in costume. I really didn’t put much thought into who would dress as what and why, I just wanted to draw something fun! ;v;

After struggling with the shading (I couldn’t decide between hard shading or painterly/soft shading at first), I ended up getting to try some new things that that I’ll probably continue to do too, so I’m pretty happy about that. It makes digitally painting more enjoyable for me. ^^
I tried painting the eyes without outlines, but I don’t know if I’ll stick with that (I probably won’t for now anyway).
I kind of wish I had made the pumpkins jack-o-lanterns, or maybe added more fun stuff, but I’m not sure if it would’ve become cluttered, so maybe it’s for the best.. ~_~

I would like to thank my mom for helping with the title and references, and my friend Ren for suggesting that Rowan be a pirate~

Thanks for looking, and have a happy Halloween, everybody!! :D

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View the process/speedpaint videos on Youtube!: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
My actual youtube channel is Designs By Sloan.
I also posted a dA journal about it that you can read here.

The picture itself has actually been finished for a while, but I FINALLY recorded myself drawing, and I wanted to prepare the video and post it alongside the picture at the same time… which took a while ’cause it meant learning a new program. ;v; It’s not perfect, but hopefully somebody can get some enjoyment out of it!

But anyways, back to the picture itself. This picture started off with me wanting to draw a random mori girl with blonde, wavy hair. Then she turned into an elf for some odd reason. Then I added the animals and background, and it just.. I don’t know how to explain it.

The roses are called “Prickly Wild Roses”, also known to Canadians as the Alberta rose.
The butterflies are tiger swallowtails. The birds are common house sparrows.
The rabbit’s no species in particular. The flower beside the girl on the opposite side of the rabbit is called a “Lady’s Slipper” orchids, they’re grown wildly in Manitoba.
Most of these are things I grew up with or things I love now. The song “The Neglected Garden” by Cecile Corbel (from Studio Ghibli’s “The Secret World of Arrietty”) basically sums up how I feel.
….Except for the wheat, which is very pretty but considering I’m extremely allergic, I don’t like it too much. XD

Anyways, I’m not sure what I actually think of this picture anymore. I can’t even count the number of hours I’ve put into this over a period of.. months. I’d love to change it or redo it, but for now I really just have to let it be and move onto new projects.

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“Can I really place my trust in you?”

Lacey and Erik are connected by events and their past, however they’re they are in their late teens or so when they find out… and there’s nobody to confirm the connection. Soon they figure out that due to the circumstances in the story, they have no choice BUT to trust each other.. even with each others life. It’s no easy feat, but is it ever..?

This picture is basically about that. The picture and “theme” is based off of a picture I drew in 2011 that I never got around to posting, but.. a bit better composition-wise and stuff. u-u
I keep changing Lacey’s outfit asdhjaskd. And I gave Erik a hood because… it makes sense to me. Woo.

Thanks for looking!

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Lacey: *mumble mumble* Stupid game..! *mumble*
Erik: Laceyyy what are you doing up so late…!? We have an early start tomorrow…! ヾ(￣~￣;)ﾉ?
Lacey: …Ah! Erik! ((((；゜Д゜)))
Lacey: Uh.. shh, you’re just dreaming. I’m not still up playing video games. Go back to sleep. >_>
Erik: …How stupid do you think I am? （；¬＿¬)
Lacey: …
Lacey: Fine. I’ll to to bed…
Lacey: …right after I make it to the next save point… ﾍ(￣w￣;ﾍ)
Erik: Gyahh ( ｡-`д´-)o︵┻━┻

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An old sketch of mine from June 2012, I found it tonight and figured with a little bit of fixing up, it would be blog worthy. ^^;;

Kind of weird that two posts in a row are technically about sleep but whatever.
Yay for Japanese emoticons! （*´▽｀*）.。ｏ♡

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I think I’m becoming a little obsessed with the mori girl style. <3 oops. lol. My big picture (that has a similar clothing style OTL) is still in the works (almost finished-ish), but I really felt like doodling today and then this happened. ;u; I sketched it out and then painted on top, like I did for my Aldora and my Kiwi picture. She's a random character. I probably dislike how her hair turned out the most, but it was a quickie so yeah. I'm still not back yet, I just really wanted to post this today. X3 Thanks for looking! - Artwork / Character © 2013 Sloan | designsbysloan.com
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First, I wanted to draw lace. Then I wanted to do a tea party theme, with a garden…
then I added faeries. Yay!
Originally I wanted it to be a lot more pastel-coloured, but I struggled with the composition so I kept it mostly desaturated but a little darker.
I made some mistakes, but I’m pretty happy with the result now.

Anyways… I can’t help but wonder if she knows they’re there or not~? :)

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MATERIALS: Copic sketch markers, Elmer’s Painters opaque paint marker
(for shines), Photoshop CS5 (colour adjustment/cleaning), random
cardstock, atyouSpica glitter pens (.Too), Copic refillable multiliners

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A sketch I drew back in june. I think I had wanted to draw someone with kind of fluffy hair lol.

Thanks for looking!

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A picture I sketched late August of last year, I remembered today how much I liked it, though it was simple, and I decided to clean it up a bit~ I mostly just “painted” over top of it, hehe..

It’s not very appropriate for summer, but it was hot out today and I wanted to work on something cold-looking. ;_;

And just for clarification, he’s not smoking, it’s just really cold wherever he is in the picture so his breath is showing up like that. xP

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It’s not finished..
I’ve gotten sort of bored with it. I wanted to try and spruce it up so I wasn’t bored anymore, but it’s like a vicious circle haha. I might update it in the future, but until then, it’s finished!! OTL
Hopefully now I can get the motivation/inspiration to work on another picture.

Anyways!! I started working on this picture of my character Slade earlier this week, because we had three days that just had gorgeous sunsets and I wanted to paint them! I know I draw sunsets and sunrises a lot, but I really love them, and felt so inspired to do another. ;-;
I also tried to use the same technique that I used on my most recent picture of Aldora, but it’s not quite the same. :c

Thank for looking!

I had a local event I sold my work at earlier this month, and I figured since it wasn’t going to be anime-oriented as Ai-kon, “Kiwi Faerie” would be a good print to bring… except, it was messy before because I hadn’t intended to sell it originally. So instead of selling it in the state it was in, I repainted on top of it, so it’s pretty clean looking now. I tried really hard to keep her personality, though~
You can see the old version here! Can you spot the differences? XD

I like it a lot better now, even though I liked it before.. I’m a little more proud of it this time around.

And thank you everyone who stopped by my booth, I really appreciate it!! <33 I had a lot of fun at the event, made new friends, learned some new things, saw plenty of old friends, and gained some local exposure for my artwork. It was awesome. In other news, spring has finally come. For the past few days it's been amazingly warm. The snow is almost all gone (it was just a few days ago that it was way more than a couple feet high), and we're starting to see butterflies, rabbits, squirrels and chipmunks are coming to my bird feeder again (which.. I like. 8D), and more birds are coming too. Just this morning we saw our first robin of the year!! I'm so happy! ;w; Thanks for looking! <33