jadeannabel

Working with a Theme || Glases

Apologies for my absence, my long distance partner is visiting and personally I am a strong advocate of real life taking priority in things, including spending ...

Capturing a Personality || Ash

Quite some time ago, I got really into 'Paladins', a free game that's a lot like Overwatch. Yes people'll call it a cheap knock off, but hey, I'm $60 richer so ...

Taking time to Relax || The Boi

Art, first and foremost, is a hobby. Yes, work is an important part of it, especially if you're trying to make consistent money from art or work with a company....

Taking it Slow || Peekaboo

I don't watch much anime, but there's a few that I absolutely adore. Mirai Nikki (Future Diary), and Hellsing. While I'd done plenty of pictures of Yuno from Mi...

Fitting Characters into Different Settings || Snack Break

With the coming of one of my friends birthdays, I asked what they'd like and to my surprise, they wanted our characters interacting! They play an adaption of 'B...

Mumen Rider || Not All Heroes Wear Capes

Watching One Punch Man (I highly recommend by the way) and one of my favourite characters is 'Mumen Rider', he doesn't seem to have any superpowers, and just se...

Stylizing Art to Fit the Subject || Blade Dance

Not long after I got into the Rooster Teeth series; RWBY, I grew quickly obsessed with the android; Penny. She had such a delightful and charming personality, a...

It Doesn't Need to be Perfect || Cole

One of my favourite characters in the Dragon Age Universe, aside from Zevran Arainai, is Cole. The lonely spirit that's within both Dragon Age Asunder (Novel) a...

Withdrawal || Visualising a Scene Without Much Reference

There are plenty of scenes in roleplays that I want to visualise with my art. It's not always easy, especially if the moment is only plotted and not written yet...

Working with Unclear Ideas || Dethroning

Those who follow me may be familiar with the recent piece I uploaded (And my recent, I mean yesterday); Fire and Fear, where I introduced 'Queen', an iteration ...

Revisiting Mistakes || Fire and Fear

One of my favourite iterations of Jade is 'Queen.' An unstable shadowy mess that's consumed almost entirely by fearlings. She's ruled by emotion and the urge to...

Force vs Creative Vision

For my final art project in school, I had one idea in mind. I'd been planning it since my second year in high school. But sadly, my teachers wouldn't let me use...

Working with Mistakes || Princess

One of the pieces I created when I first made Jade, was a picture of her sitting on a throne, shrouded in darkness. I was so proud of how I worked with shadows ...

Taking Things Slow || Conquering Intimidation

For my Sisters birthday, I wanted to design something in particular. I could see what I wanted in my head but it was a big project and frankly, very intimidatin...

Expanding Your Horizons || Storming

One great thing about being an artist is learning new things, whether that means perfecting (if perfection is ever an attainable goal) a technique, or finding a...

Planning Ahead || Luminesence

When I was a younger artist, I thought bigger was better. If a canvas was 40x40cm, it seemed like no matter what I did, I'd have the space to add all the detail...

Practice Makes Perfect || Outside of Town

Jack Frost (ROTG), while one of my favourite characters, has always been ridiculously hard for me to draw. But with the new year, I desperately wanted to finish...

Simple Backgrounds and Drawing off Reference.

My favourite Anime is Mirai Nikki, or 'Future Diary' in english. The premise is a lot like Hunger games, a group of 'chosen' individuals must fight to become lo...

Capturing a Scene || Crushing

It's no secret that I'm part of a tabletop. It's also one of my favourite subjects to draw! During this tabletop my character got a massive crush on an NPC (non...

Progressing as an Artist;; From Bases to References

When I was a young artist, I tended to use bases to help create the image I pictured in my head. There's nothing wrong with using bases as long as you don't cla...