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Early Look: Finished Commission Behind-the-Scenes! 🐉🔥✨+ new video for you ✏️
🕑 Added 2025-02-11 02:30:01 +0000 UTCHellooo everyone! I hope you all had a lovely weekend 🥰
I wanted to show you all the finished commission piece I made for Olivia Rose Darling! The artwork is inspired by her new book coming out in July called Wrath of the Dragons, the sequel to Fear the Flames 🔥✨
This was SUCH a fun drawing to make, and Olivia was so lovely to work with —but the project definitely came with some challenges! For one, I’d never made a character sheet with six characters before, and at first I was like… how is this composition going to work?! 😅
There were also lots of tiny details I had to keep in mind for their designs, and I thought I would share some of the project brief with you guys so you can see the info I had to work with! :)
First, the descriptions for each pose concept! This is what Olivia sent me:
After the pose descriptions, Olivia included multiple references to show me exactly what her characters look like, which helped sooo much with the design process:)
Here’s what she sent for Elowen:
Lastly, she sent me Elowen’s detailed character description!
Now time for Cayden’s descriptions! 💗
And finally, some color guides for their hair and skin tone shades:
And that’s it! I find it soooo helpful when clients provide this much detail, and I had so much fun figuring out their designs 🥰
There are some details that are kind of up to interpretation (like the tattoos for example), and in those cases, I usually just draw what I imagine on a separate layer so the author can tell me if it’s close to their vision or not :)
I recorded the painting process for you guys, so you’ll get a new real-time video this week! 😍💌 I’m excited to share it with you!
Ok, long post!! 🙈 I hope you’re all having a wonderful start to the week:)
Love,
Lydia ✨
Comments
Yara Proença
That was amazing! I'm gonna use her as an example to describe my characters 😂😂 it's super detailed and really helps with creation. And this commission looks stunning!🥰🤩✨
Yelena
I'm in awe! Every details is truly beautiful ✨ I'm so excited for this video!!! I was wondering when you have commissions like this, how do you set the price of your work?
