STEP BY STEP // stargazer (Patreon)

Here’s the steps for the early access painting I posted last month, plus a larger version! As you can see, the painting changed a bazillion times. It started out as a procreate doodle on the ipad and then later I worked out the details in photoshop. The step where I switch from procreate to photoshop is the one where she’s suddenly looking up rather than down.

Every time I revisited it, I wanted to change things around. It’s part of my intuitive process - just going with the flow of how I feel at that moment. I have mixed feelings about it sometimes though, because there are always things in the earlier steps that I liked and feel like I should have kept. Even now I feel like I need to revise the painting and go back to an earlier step… but it’s also important to just let it go and put that energy into my next painting. Do you guys also switch the idea up as you go, or do you tend to stick to your first sketch?