Miscellaneous Drawings #16

 Hello everyone, 

As an update, this is happening slowly, but I am updating the character pages. Currently there is a new one for Reed, and I now have one for Elyerin and Arisias. 

In the future I will give more in-depth updates on my novel projects, as I have been working hard on them, and realize I have not said much about them recently on the blog. A lot of things have changed and developed and I look forward to sharing them.  

Here are the drawings... 

This is a design of my character, Artemis. I have been experimenting with a lot of designs for her, and I finally created one that works. She is a character for a new short film and graphic novel that I am developing (which involves characters you may already know such as Elm, Oak, etc.). 

Artemis's hair is partially inspired by a real ancient Greek hairstyle, and her outfit is inspired by a statue of Artemis.   

This is an outfit I designed for my character, Reed, which is inspired by the myth of Apollo and Hyacinth. There are wind movement designs at the bottom of the mask (representing the West Wind), the sun can be seen around the sockets of the mask, and there are Hyacinth flowers on the sides. 

His jacket is the color of the Hyacinth with looping designs, and the vest underneath repeats the movement of the wind designs accompanied by embroidered petals (as this wind brings Spring).

This was drawn in response to a prompt about "travel." This particular dryad is Oak's mother, a character who will appear later on in a project about her and Elm. The idea for the drawing is that the viewer is traveling to and entering the dryad's forest.

I have not drawn Elm in a while, so I decided that now would be the time to draw her. 

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Which drawing is your favorite? 

-Quinley 

My Art From Mermay (part 1.5): Lost & Found

Click here to read part one. 

 It is currently taking me a little longer to do digital drawings of the rest of my Mermay art, than I anticipated. Instead of leaving you to wait or rushing what I was creating, I wanted to show the process that my art goes through to become digitized and introduce you to a character with one piece of art in particular...

I drew this mermaid and decided that I wanted to explore a character who found random objects at sea to use and wear. (In the picture above she is wearing a sewing needle in her hair like it is hair pin with the thread still attached.) This mermaid does not have a name yet, but I can see her as a character in a future short story. I do not know if she is interested in the human world in the way the Little Mermaid is, but my character certainly has enough of an interest to start a collection: books, broken dolls, and sewing materials, etc..... 

Here is the video showing my process: 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Would you like to see more art videos? What item would you most want from her collection? 

-Quinley 

Miscellaneous Drawings #15

Hi everyone, 

Sorry about the accidental weird post I made. If you saw it in your feed, it was due to me trying to show a technical difficulty in my writing group to someone else. It was not meant to be posted as a blog post. 😁

To make up for that mistake, here is an actual post... 

A drawing of Medea, she first appeared in this post. Medea is a magical artist who has embroidery magic. Medea is, also, a character in my Dorian Gray trilogy, who you will learn more about in the future. 😉

A drawing of Fiáina. I had not drawn her since 2023, and I do not know why. So, I decided to draw her relaxing after a run through the woods. Her appearance changes based on the seasons and in this drawing it is summer. This image was featured in a monthly showcase my writing group ran here (I recommend checking out my fellow writer's art, writing, and blogs, too). 

A drawing of Denisse who I have not drawn since my style changed. I decided it would be fun to draw her again.  

This fairy was fun. I created her through a fun character generator, and I thought the randomness would be an interesting limitation when it came to character creation. 

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Which drawing is your favorite? 

-Quinley  

My Art from Mermay 2025 (Part One)

 You can find the official prompt list for Mermay here. 

I've known about Mermay for several years but for a long time never participated. I liked seeing people's mermaid art, but when May came around I tended to forget. However, this year I decided to finally participate. The drawings you will see started out as sketches (in my sketchbook), and then were turned into digital art afterwards. (In a post some other time, I may show the photos of the sketches). 

Like my previous Inktober posts, this will be divided into parts. I do have Inktober art from last year, however, I will need to find the sketchbook I was using, before I can post all of it. But, I hope to post that art soon before next October. 

 Let's begin: 

#1 Mirror, this was the first sketch I did for Mermay. I decided to draw a mermaid looking at herself in a mirror underwater. 

#2 Cosmic, I decided to draw a mermaid in a sea that was present in the sky.  

#3 Hair, I decided to draw what a mermaid's hair might look like while underwater.

#4 Axolotl, a mermaid with her pet axolotl. I decided that it was like owning a poodle for mermaids. The mermaid's outfit and hair was based on 18th century clothes. 

#5 Drama, this mermaid is performing in a play where the mermaids play different creatures from land. In this play, she is acting as a bird. 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Which mermaid is your favorite? And do you have a favorite book, movie, or TV show that involves mermaids?

-Quinley 

Miscellaneous Drawings #14

 

Hello everyone, 

I thought it was time to do another drawing post. I have some watercolor drawings and Inktober art from last year, which I intend to share in a future post, so stay tuned. For now let me show you my drawings: 

A drawing of Edith. I wanted to draw a full body drawing her since I had not done that, yet. 

A drawing inspired by Blackbriar's song "Cicada." I enjoyed drawing her hair and the wings. 

This was a drawing that I did with mixed media: the above image is a digital drawing, and 
the background image is a watercolor painting. This drawing was featured in a showcase, my writing group ran here. 

I decided to play around with backgrounds and here is a potrait of my character, Genevieve. Her face is a bit different than some of my other characters. So, I thought she would be fun to draw. 

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Which drawing is your favorite? 

-Quinley 

A New Embroidery Piece

Greetings Adventurers! 

I have been sick (recovering from surgery) for the last few months, so that is why I have been absent from blogging. But, I intend to respond to comments that I missed and hope to get back on a posting schedule (eventually). 

I have artwork to share: an embroidery piece I recently made.

I decided I wanted to create a tapestry-like scene with this large piece of fabric. And I wanted to have each individual section be a part of the scene. Here are the close-ups of the six different sections. I will let the images speak for themselves: 

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Which section of the scene do you like most? 

-Quinley 

My Issues with Glaze

So, this post is a bit different than my other posts. It's a cross between a review and a question-oriented post. So let's begin. 

I learned from other artists online that a recommended way to protect your art from A.I. is through a new program made by people at the University of Chicago. This program, which provides a mask for your art, is called "Glaze."

I was working on updating a character page, and just to see if I could get Glaze to work, I attempted to use it in three different ways. Unfortunately, the mask that it puts on my art ends up distorting it in ways that are obvious to me or just completely ruin the art. 

To give you an example, here (above) is the unglazed drawing that I am using to demonstrate.

Now, here it is on Glaze's highest mask setting (most distorting). This one was put on the longer exporting setting compared to the other two (this one took about an hour and a half). 

The other two I am going to show were set to the shortest exporting limit (twenty minutes): 

I set this one (above) to the default setting, and it still made it look wrong. It ended up distorting the background, no longer making it smooth. 

Lastly, with this drawing, even when I put it on the lowest possible setting, it still looks distorted texturally. The distortion is more seen in zooming in and in color difference than in distorting the whole image. It also has a tendency to remove the transparent background of an image, so if you want to mask a transparent image, it seems (but I could be wrong) that you have to do the transparent background part after you mask the image with Glaze. 

If anyone who follows this blog uses Glaze to protect their art, do you have the same problems as me? Or is what I am running into going to happen always, since my art style tends to be flat in terms of shading? 

-Quinley