Thank you, Oblio... my work is digital collages... so I do not do the drawings, just take multiple pieces (for instance, the welcome panel has about 50 separate "elements") and make multiple edits to each one as it is added...
I could get very detailed in telling you how I do it but that might bore you LOL
Hoping not to bore you: my process is very spontaneous, though hours of searching out the individual pieces is involved in the collecting of them, of which I have over 11,000 by now (after 4 years). As I find the elements, such as flowers, butterflies, borders, frames, backgrounds, special effect, stars, clouds, horse, dove, eagle, dress, wings, human elements such as arms, eyes, faces, torsos etc, I save it to my computer in one of multiple folders from which I randomly select what I think might look good in whatever panel I am working on. Once I have selected and sized it and positioned it on the panel, I usually make a number of many other edits to each individual piece such as color correction, brightness, hue, saturation, contrast, exposure (yeah they sound similar but have differing effects) as I attempt to bring each element into balance with the others and the panel as a whole. I might spend hours working with an element only to eventually delete it and start over with a new element. It is not unusual for me to try several border, frame, and background elements (I often layer them) before I settle on a combination that satisfies, and the same goes for many other of the element categories.
Constructing figures takes the most time, as I try many different faces and hair styles and dresses and do a lot of work blending the skin tones from the various elements that went into the making of any one figure. There comes a point in each design where I just have to say it is enough and stop working on it, because even looking at some of those older ones previously posted, I can see things now I could go back and alter slightly, even just to make the font easier to read. I can be very persnickety with them to the point of feeling it is imperative to make an adjustment of moving something one pixel this way or that
I used Emma Stone's face for this one after getting the idea of designing one with a red-haired woman
Psalm 33:20-22
I could get very detailed in telling you how I do it but that might bore you LOL
Hoping not to bore you: my process is very spontaneous, though hours of searching out the individual pieces is involved in the collecting of them, of which I have over 11,000 by now (after 4 years). As I find the elements, such as flowers, butterflies, borders, frames, backgrounds, special effect, stars, clouds, horse, dove, eagle, dress, wings, human elements such as arms, eyes, faces, torsos etc, I save it to my computer in one of multiple folders from which I randomly select what I think might look good in whatever panel I am working on. Once I have selected and sized it and positioned it on the panel, I usually make a number of many other edits to each individual piece such as color correction, brightness, hue, saturation, contrast, exposure (yeah they sound similar but have differing effects) as I attempt to bring each element into balance with the others and the panel as a whole. I might spend hours working with an element only to eventually delete it and start over with a new element. It is not unusual for me to try several border, frame, and background elements (I often layer them) before I settle on a combination that satisfies, and the same goes for many other of the element categories.Constructing figures takes the most time, as I try many different faces and hair styles and dresses and do a lot of work blending the skin tones from the various elements that went into the making of any one figure. There comes a point in each design where I just have to say it is enough and stop working on it, because even looking at some of those older ones previously posted, I can see things now I could go back and alter slightly, even just to make the font easier to read. I can be very persnickety with them to the point of feeling it is imperative to make an adjustment of moving something one pixel this way or that
I used Emma Stone's face for this one after getting the idea of designing one with a red-haired woman
Psalm 33:20-22
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