Monthly Archives: July 2013

Somebody requested Toshiro Hitsugaya, and I ended up drawing him.
He’s definitely one of my favourite Bleach characters after all, plus my mom likes him too, so how could I not!?
Thank you so much for requesting this, Katie! I really hope you liked it. ^^

As for the artwork, I doodled it in ArtRage (I can’t remember if it was 3 or 4), then quite a while later I resketched it, linearted it, and coloured it in Photoshop CS5, and then after THAT I moved it back into ArtRage 4 so I could blur the bottom. I’ll probably stick to drawing headshots this way, I like the effect. -u-

Also, I have a treat for you lovely readers~ I managed to save enough screenshots of my progress, so I turned it into a gif!

Sorry if the watermark is bothersome, I figured my usual watermark would be worse for it, so I changed it. ^^;

I have also made a new category for tutorials, or images with progress gifs or videos. We now have a program so I can record myself drawing in Photoshop, so hopefully I’ll be able to add more to the category soon!

But anyways, thank you for looking!

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Artwork © 2013 Sloan | designsbysloan.com
Bleach / Character (Toshiro Hitsugaya) © Tite Kubo
Do not use without permission.

I had multiple requests at Ai-kon to draw something Bleach related, so I finally did it this year!!
This is a huge file, it’s dpi/ppi is larger than normal, and each character had their own group in Photoshop, so it took a while to load. I worked on it on and off for MONTHS.

I’m really happy with how it turned out though. <3 I think I had the most fun shading Chad's face, while Ichigo's hair was a total pain. >_> I also had wanted to draw Uryu with his bow and arrow, but I ran out of room, and didn’t want to stress over the pose being accurate… so he ended up moving his glasses. OTL

Thanks to everybody who suggested, looks at this, and/or bought it! <3 - Artwork © 2013 Sloan | designsbysloan.com
Bleach / Characters (Ichigo, Rukia, Orihime, Chad, Uryu, Kon) © Tite Kubo
Title “Rolling Star” is from YUI’s song of the same name.
Do not use without permission.

Something last minute I did before Ai-kon. I really wanted to draw some pokemon starters, and I also wanted to add some more bookmarks to my selection (these two ended up being my only new bookmarks).

I only drew generation 1 and 6 due to lack of time, but I’m hoping that I’ll be able to add gen 2-5 in the future, because these were fun to work on. ♥ I’m probably happiest with Froakie.

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Artwork © 2013 Sloan | designsbysloan.com
Pokemon © Nintendo
Do not use without permission.

I want to give a shout out to everybody who stopped by my table and/or my sister’s table to chat, buy, trade, etc. You have no idea how much we appreciate the support, no matter how small, so THANK YOU!!
Like always, it was great seeing all the familiar faces, and meeting some of the new ones. :) To me, that’s one of the best parts of the weekend.
I hope you all had an amazing weekend full of lots of Ai-kon fun!! <3 Personally, we had some struggles before the convention, but everything worked out for the best in the end. We learned some new things, experienced new things, and had a lot of fun. My sister had her first Ai-kon art table, and my cousin came to Ai-kon for the first time! (Thank you Jonathan for coming and helping out so much, you're such an awesome cousin!!) We all had an amazing time, and I look forward to going again, whenever that will be. ^w^ We took even less pictures than last year, but I will be posting a (password protected) blog post with the cosplayers we DID take pictures of. The password will be posted on the Ai-kon forum, though if you think we might have a picture of you, feel free to send an email or note to me for the password. Or, if you were interested in a commission of any kind, just shoot me an email at sloan@designsbysloan.com or note me (artigirl @ deviantart) with what you'd like, and I'll give you a price quote. I am also willing to mail out anything that was (or wasn't) sold out. (Next time I'll work harder to prevent running out, and I think we have a plan, I promise!!) And to those who didn't get to come to Ai-kon, I'll start posting my Ai-kon prints and products tomorrow. I'll post most of the stuff on deviantART every once in a while, but I'll post on my blog everyday, with more sketches, photography, etc as well as my products for Ai-kon 2012-2013. I have more art to finish too (one original, one gift I won't post, another gift I might post, plus I'll probably go on my copic-colouring-kick soon. |D). I'll try and go for as long as I can with the everyday posting, so please look forward to it! <3 But yes, thank you SO much for the support, and I hope you have a great summer! ~Sloan