Posted by Amanda on Nov 02, 2023
Hi friends!
Art for this month is spaceships, in full color & (also in b&w). I've been doing a lot of painting & coloring work lately to try & get better at it, I have even been reading some books (one of the most recommended books on Color & Light is by James Gurney, the Dinotopia guy, who is really into dinosaurs, and all of the example images in the book are paintings of dinosaurs which is honestly pretty charming) The main thing I think that I have started to grasp is that often you just need a tiny color shift to create depth or shadows, almost invisible. And that most things are mostly grey, but the greys will look like colors because of what's around them. This is definately something you could study for a lifetime & still keep learning how to do it properly, which is something I find really comforting: knowing that there will always be more to learn.
I listened to this cool lecture about space travel:https://youtu.be/R3Igzfte8Pc?si=N1Nw6j75E8KyAZC7
and they are talking about using sails for interstellar travel so I drew sails on bunch of the spaceships (probably not realistically big enough sails though).
I also finished coloring the short comic I've been working on & will be uploading that as well!
P.s if you need a non-digital copy of Crush Depth Apparition you can pick one up at Ratti Incantati here:https://rattiincantati.com/products/crush-depth-apparition
Thanks! Hope you are having a nice late autumn! (It legit snowed on Halloween in Chicago it was so distressing! It stuck to the grass and the neighborhood animatronic spooky demon yard decor.)
Amanda