Jamie Green
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👼 January Step-by-Step 👼
🕑 Added 2021-01-19 20:38:01 +0000 UTCDue to popular demand, this step-by-step video is a traditional one consisting mostly of gouache painting and a bit of digital touch up at the end. Little did I realize how out of practice I was with my traditional media! Lately I have been working away digitally for my freelance projects (quicker, easier to make big edits, and there is, of course, the undo button). Therefore, mistakes were made. Things did not go completely as planned. It might not be completely obvious, but in my mind I was thinking oh no oh no did I forget how to paint?
Regardless, I am pleasantly surprised with the end result. Since so much of my freelance work has been environment-heavy, it's wonderful to take a break and just draw some silly little guys floating on a solid background.
I have been unapologetically enjoying things even if they are not necessarily "on brand". Kewpie dolls, big colorful shapes, and anime elements were very much my brand in 2017. Here are two things from my sophomore year in college to give you an idea of what I'm talking about (please excuse the poor quality images!):
What I paint in this step by step is almost an homage to that time. It's like if past me and present me did a collaboration. I never truly left that style behind--I think I just built upon it.
Can I get a little deep for a moment? As my college life progressed, I found a more naturalistic and woodsy vibe to my work(and life for that matter). I think that's probably how many of you found me. People know me as the hiker/climber/camper/mycologist. But my roots are very much in this pop-y, funky bright aesthetic. Keith Haring and Matisse were everything to me. I rejected that side of me as time went on, leaving it behind as "someone that I had matured from". I leaned hard into that woodsy feeling.
It was only recently that I realized I do not have to be concretely one or the other. I do not have to avoid that past aesthetic just because I have grown past that stage in my life emotionally/artistically. I can be funky kewpie Jamie who uses color blocking, or I can be earth tone crunchy Jamie. I can be any mixture of the two! I can go hiking one day, watch anime the next, go fungi hunting, play indie games, have wild feral hair, or blunt artsy bangs....etc etc etc. 2021 shall be the year of being everything we want to be all at once.
Big description for an otherwise simple step by step video. I wanted to give you some background on my thought process. As always, let me know if I can clarify anything! Hope you are having the most wonderful week.
-JG
Comments
Becca Kelley
Have you used photopea? It’s a free web version of of photoshop and it’s how I erase the background
Julia Shea
every time i make something I'm always freaking out until I make it to the finish line in one piece!! it's something I'm trying to work on, my new mantra is "trust the process" :')
Flora Draw
also the undertale music <3
Jamie Green
I wonder if it's because we know that often times it doesn't turn out exactly how we'd imagined--I think that's where mine stems from! You know your own "success percentage" and it's always as if you're spinning that wheel when you start like "okay will I land on success or will it be a bust?" And sometimes, the outcome surprises me (for better or worse!)
Meg Fox
"I'm often panicking through the whole process til the very end" oh god that's so true. Why is that? Do we as artists just need to learn to relax and enjoy the process more?
Emmy Brown
ty jamie! really want to work on gouache after watching this ~
Hanna Mancini
I don't have many words except that I love everything about this piece, and it's lovely to see the process! (I, too, spend a lot of the middle of my process panicking and then USUALLY things mostly come together in the end, so I feel that feel, hehe!)
nepeteaa
straight wrinkles are 100% where it's at, had a whole semester on drawing cloth and I still go for straight wrinkles, they have so much more personality!! these traditional videos have been a huge help while I try to figure out gouache, excited for more!!
Zandermans
I've been following you since your feral women pieces & it's been wonderful to watch you grow and experiment! I'm glad you've come to the conclusion that you can do whatever you want - pull from the past, experiment, etc. without feeling like you're betraying yourself or your "style". because you're right, it's all you! Felt very relaxed watching and listening to you in this one, can't wait for the next!
nene ⁕ he/they
I'm going to enjoy this tomorrow at breakfast -going to bed rn- but just wanted to pop in and say: Jamie honestly I follower you for your cosplay content and then we just moved on in life growing and appreciating different facets of art and life and yet here I am like that meme image of Will Smith showing you to the world because your thoughts are everything! Let's all be everything we want to be! Thank you for always improving and being a center of all good things and for Jamie hiker/climber/camper/mycologist and also for Jamie cosplaying Rock Lee from Naruto hehehe
Celeste Ortiz
I love this drawing! I have also been a follower since 8-butt, (really since those internet web series days oh boy) and I think it’s nice to see you revisit your earlier styles! It’s easy to think “that was the old me it’s not me anymore” but without those past experiences we wouldn’t be our present selves; that being said I love the idea of embracing multi-dimensionality this year! Let’s do it!
