Hello everyone! Grab a cup of hot tea, or a glass of iced tea and join me into today's project breakdown! 🍵🍹
After the previous sticker sheet I made, I wanted to put the fluffy little cat, Lord Herrington, on another sticker sheet. And that is how this one is born.
Surrounded with potions, crystals, leafs and roses, Lord Herrington now has his own place. I'm still thinking on making an ONLY Lord Herrington themed sheet. I'll have to think about it.
For this sheet I decided to make it in a larger size than the previous one. I halved a B4 watercolor paper to get the size I would be comfortable painting on, and before painting, I did some tests and sketches about the stickers I wanted to incorporate.
I drew some crystals, because it's usually associated with witchy stuff and I also loved drawing an painting crystals years ago. I sadly kinda forgot, how I drew and painted them back then, so I looked up some images for reference. I just simply didn't wanted it to be a flop for me and hate it in the end. Although I still managed to mess up during the process, then save the crystals in the end.
I went into painting it twice in total. First I hated how the paint feathered on the paper also how the paper itself wrinkled up by the amount of water. So I treated the next paper as I should have done it with the first time. It helped, but some of my paints still feathered a lot, which was annoying and disheartening, when I painted in so nicely, then in few seconds the paint just ran out of the lines. Later I had similar problems when I painted the lineart. The only paints I had this problem was the Ecoline liquid watercolors. I believe the paper I used, which was a Canson Heritage cold press watercolor paper, and the liquid watercolors are not compatible with each other. Also with my previous work there was no problem like this. For that I used a Canson Montval watercolor paper. Both of them are 300gsm, but they have a different surface. I'm pretty sure because the Heritage paper is a more professional one and it was designed for heavy water applying. With that now I learned, that I have to use that paper for specific projects and with the right tools.
After putting up the base colors, came the time for the shades and secondary colors and then the line art, which was really fun. This is when everything got it's character and charm. I really loved painting the crystals and especially the roses!
When I detailed everything I went on putting in some additional details and finishing touches. This is when the whites and sparkles were put in. I also busted out my colored pencils too, to bring in some sharper edges and extra textures. I also corrected the feathered out parts, where the watercolor decided they take up more space then they were originally given.
Now it's pretty, and sparkly. The only thing left is to make them into stickers!
I went on and scanned them, made some corrections in Affinity Photo (a cheaper, but just as powerful alternative to Photoshop) so it looked like the original as much as possible. After editing I went in Clip Studio Paint and started to edit the sticker sheet. When I was satisfied with the sheet I printed them on an adhesive paper, so later I can cut them out. I personally love sticker sheets. That is why I decided to cut the sheets like that by hand too. Just like with the previous one I just grabbed my box cutter/precision knife and went into carving out the stickers as a Shilouette machine would do.
It was a lot of work, but I'm happy with the end result. Unfortunately one of the sheets were not cut through properly, so the stickers can't be peeled off, which is a shame and I'm not sure if the other two has the same problems or not, because I already put them in the envelopes I want to send to my sisters later. I just hope they were cut through.
For now I know, that I will have to edit the sticker sheet, because it's a bit too small and the stickers at some places are too close to each other, and that I'll have to be more precise, when I'm cutting the stickers.
Here's how my first sticker sheet attempts turned out. 🙂
Since than I went out and made some prints of it, so I now have a whole bunch of it in pretty, vibrant colours. I also removed some leaves, because at the end I didn't like them.
And that's it for now. I'm happy you joined me. I hope you drank as much tea as you could during this little read. See you next time, whichever it shall be. It's going to be a surprise, what kind of post I'll come up with by than. I have some already started projects, and a lot of waiting ones, so I'll have some tea time readings for you.
Bye~ 🍹
- Mar 26, 2022
Updated: Jun 11, 2022
I finished another draw this in your style painting. This one is based on @daisyart_lab 's dtiys illustration.
Here's her version, the original one.
And here's my take of it:
I really enjoyed painting this.
Also, I got myself a masking fluid - which I wanted to try out for so long - and used it at the stars. :) For me being me, I dragged on with this painting for I guess more than 2 weeks, so the masking fluid decided it lives there, and if I want to remove it, than I'll have to put more work into it. So... mmm... yeah. I almost messed up with it, because I procrastinated, but now I know, that when I use masking fluid in the future, I HAVE to finish it within 2 days.
In the end I love how the painting turned out, I had a lot of fun and finally had the chance to try out a new tool, which all for me is a big win. :)
Materials used:
🔸Canson Heritage watercolor paper
🔸Munkácsy squirrel brushes
🔸White Nights watercolors
🔸some Talens Vang Gogh watercolors
🔸Pannoncolor titanium white gouache
🔸Conté watercolor pencils
🔸Derwent watercolor pencils
