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Hello my dear Patrons,

I had plans to paint something in a winter theme for the next illustration... but I ended up with something completely opposite haha I was tempted to finally continue my fairy series and so here is Rani in my style. I hope you enjoy!

The background was quite a challenge to me, I'm definately not the best at painting rocks but painting water was fun!

I will soon share a process video for the Crystal Sun tier so stay tuned ❤️


Love,

Toshia

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bearuber

This is so beautiful! I always get so inspired from your works aaaaaa

Anonymous

Hi! I’m new here, I became a patreon because I absolutely love your art!🥰 I wanted to ask a question, if it’s okay, how do you work with layers? When I’m painting I start with flat colours, but then the more I add color the more I’m like should I be separating into shadows and highlights? Sometimes I find it too limiting. Or layering by objects? I haven’t found the best method yet 😅 All the best, Lucia ☺️🌷

Toshiasan

Hi! Thank you for joining! To be honest I sometimes also work differently per different illustration. When the illustration has too much details I would get too overhelmed and go mad with the amount of details if I did every single thing on a seperate layer haha so in that case I divide them info foreground, middleground and background only and stick to that. Any big change that I'm not sure will work out - I add a layer on top and work on it for a while then I can turn it off and see If I improved - very often I need to erease too! Oh one more thing I always do - I have a layer on the top of all the other layers in the "color" painting mode with a black filling the whole layer. If I'm not sure the rendering I'm doing is readable - that's how I check the values. On the other hand when it's an illustration with for example one character only and no to simple bg - then I devide parts of this characters to different layers like: skin, hair, clothes, accessories etc. I render in a similar matter that I'm adding a layer on top if I want to erease or change my mind. And then when I feel like the illustration is like 90% done - I merge everything on top (ctrl+alt+shift+E) and and final fun touches that I play with: gradient map, texture, more light etc I do on the final piece. The rest is still below if I want to back, never burn all the bridges haha And finally, doing color key at first is soooo helpful, it gives you the path that you just follow later on. You spend like 1h-3h on making this additional step so that you enjoy you color keys on a thumbnail and it makes like so much easier for the big final piece! I used to never do this step and now I know how much I was missing lmao. Omg this answer got so long, I hope I was able to help a little bit and keep finding your best way of painting! 🥰

Anonymous

She' s so pretty. And I'm Happy to See Rani in your Style. She's my favorite fairy since I saw those "old" Disney Fairies as a child. ❤️❤️