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Madame Xanadu issue 1 cover!  One of my favorites.  Took me a long time, but it was totally worth it.  X’s become arrows; all the corners were symbolic of the times and places she would go in that arc, and it became the back design to all her tarot cards.
Cover sketch
Pencils
Inks
Color flats
Rendering
I colored the linework—something I used to do more of back in the day.  Every line was colored meticulously to match the colors around it!
Added texture/logo.  This cover was all about the textures, which I created in Corel Painter using the watercolor brushes.

I loved this book, so very much.

thehappysorceress:

amyreeder:

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Madame Xanadu issue 1 cover!  One of my favorites.  Took me a long time, but it was totally worth it.  X’s become arrows; all the corners were symbolic of the times and places she would go in that arc, and it became the back design to all her tarot cards.

  1. Cover sketch
  2. Pencils
  3. Inks
  4. Color flats
  5. Rendering
  6. I colored the linework—something I used to do more of back in the day.  Every line was colored meticulously to match the colors around it!
  7. Added texture/logo.  This cover was all about the textures, which I created in Corel Painter using the watercolor brushes.

I loved this book, so very much.

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How It’s Made, Decorative Candles.

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holy fuck, that is beautiful. how is she that good?

oh.dear.god.

i’m so mesmerized 

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oh my god that’s amazing

There is never going to be a time when I don’t want to watch this.

Also, the video is on the company website. But I don’t like most of the designs, so there are other places to take a look at if you google right. I haven’t got a spare $50 yet, but one day…. SOMEDAY SOONNNN…

forever reblog. absolutely. every time it pops up on my dash.

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Oh heavens, this is PERFECT. Amazing noir-themed 2007 photoshoot by national treasure Annie Liebovitz for Vanity Fair, and featuring a whole slew of my favorite actors. Talk about writing prompts. (I’m shipping the Angelica Huston & Sharon Stone characters).

A few more images here.

I would read literally every one of these SSBBs.

This is so perfect it may actually kill me.

wow. Just. wow.

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Learn to accept praise. I know, I know, when someone runs up and says “I love your work!” your inclination is to mumble an apology for wasting their time with your crappy art, or to say “It’s not that great.”

Don’t.

This is not about you.

If somebody says “I love your art,” and you say “My art is awful,” then guess what? You just insulted them. You have told them, in effect, that what they love is crap and that they have poor taste. Clamp your teeth down on that urge, smile, and say “Thank you.” If you can’t think of a single other thing to say, I make you a gift of this phrase—”Thank you. You’re very kind.” Say this when you want to scream that you messed up the knees on the horse and the tail on the fox and the eyeballs on the woman. If you have to say it every single time, then do. You don’t have to believe it, you don’t have to jump on the table and say “That’s right, I’m AWESOME!”—

But don’t insult them.

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