Somehow I wasn’t expecting these pieces to be my most liked, but surprised as I may be, I’m glad they resonated with people. Thank you all for the support. Here’s looking at 2019~
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You can get these seven retro lady stickers and more on Redbubble today for 20% off. Just use the code “BOXING20” and get yourself something nice~
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Finally, after months(?) in production, Ahoy Hoy! birthday cards are available for purchase on Redbubble! Six cards, six cakes, six different looks, all with a manga-inspired aesthetic. Which is your favorite? The link to the store is in my bio. So happy to be finished with this slice of Ahoy Hoy. Golly~
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A mockup for that silhouette woman done in Procreate.
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After playing around for a number of hours, I realized that my initial plan for the piece to be focused on patterns would just not work, given my current skill level. Or possibly at all. So it became more about contrasting values. Having that one strip to see the tone of the paper behind line patterns creates a much more interesting visual than just a block of the same thing. Plus, it has that mix of flat black and shading that I wanted~
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Concept of a traditional piece.
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Her appearance was supposed to reflect an African aesthetic, but somehow, she ended up looking like a South East Asian Lady Macbeth. Not what I was going for, but I like it.
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She was also supposed to look at though she were touching her head in pain, like she has a headache or something. I’ll have to adjust that in the final piece.
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Wanted to try experimenting with making her face and hands black and affected by lighting but her clothing being flat and all about the patterns. It’s more landscape than portrait, unlike the last silhouette woman, but I wanted the subject have a bit more balance, thus the hand and the pearls. Also, said pearls will interact with light, so there’d be a necessary contrast in value, God willing~
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#conceptart #concept #robes #silhouette #abstract #africaninspiration #africanart #pearlnecklace #traditionalart #traditionalartist #patterns #sketch #wip #workingprogress #chararacterdesign #creativeprocess #frankiedillerreese #genrechowderstudios
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Sketch of a Gibson girl. Not full Gibson with the heavily lidded eyes and graceful posing and whatnot, but she’s got the hair and vintage clothing. Wanted to capture the swoop and tousled flow of the hair. Looks nice. Touched it up in Procreate.
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She was supposed to have something of a double chin, but during shading, I accidentally obliterated the rolls under her neck~
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#gibsongirl #updo #vintage #1920s #1920sfashion #drawing #cartoon #sketch #artist #doodle #artistsoninstagram #messyhair #cartoonist #sketchart #traditionalart #traditionalartist #vintagestyle #vintagehair #frankiedillerreese #genrechowderstudios
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Made this sticker today during… breakfast, I think it was? Usually, these take about an hour and a half, maybe two hours, and this was more on the two-hour side of the spectrum. Couldn’t figure out what she was wearing until halfway through. Might change the way I shaded her bun~
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#drawing #artist #artwork #digitalart #artistsoninstagram #cartoonist #digitalartwork #sticker #stickerdesign #cartoonstyle #cute #cartoonface #retrohair #friendly #herheadismassive #frankiedillerreese #genrechowderstudios
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A very, very angry man. Swipe to see him blissfully happy, crushed and broken, and shocked beyond belief. My favorite’s the happy one. It makes ME happy.
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Keeping in with my exploration of this more expressive, Don Bluth-inspired style, I wanted to explore a handful of emotions and push them as far as I could make them go.
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God, I love noses. They are the centerpiece to the face and can impart so much character to a… character. Not just in the sense of “Oh, he has a long nose, so he must be snooty or nosy or whatever.” Not something that says anything about the character’s personality itself necessarily but something that speaks to the tone of the world, the style, how everyone emotes. Plus, an interesting nose, like the beak this man has here, adds such interest to a silhouette. Not everyone can have dinky little dot noses.
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It suddenly occurs to me that I made the nose “smile” with the smiling version, and I could have made his nose droop with the sad one. Whoops~
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#drawing #artist #sketch #sketchbook #artistsoninstagram #cartoon #drawings #cartoondrawings #longnose #sketches #characterdesign #traditionalart #traditionalartist #cartoonist #anger #rage #crying #sadness #peaceful #happiness #blissful #shockandawe #shock #expressive #emotional #frankiedillerreese #genrechowderstudios
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