Pearl, Steven Universe

Here's a drawing of Pearl from Steven Universe, a bit smaller than the Garnet drawing, but it was a fun little illustration. Pearl is actually the hardest to imagine in my style, her features are very different from how I draw faces and it became tricky to figure out the best way to translate them. I think this turned out well, although it'd be tricky to draw her again.

Watercolor, gouache and color pencil on Stillman and Birn beta paper.

Garnet: Steven Universe

Hello all! I just finished watching the first season of Steven Universe, and I totally get all the hype. It's a great show, so now i have excuse to draw the characters cuz I love their designs. It's also a really progressive show, which I think is important right now to teach kids to be tolerant of everyone and judge people by their character, not what they are.

This Garnet was done all in one go, took me about 4 hours to paint, an hour to sketch. The drawing is about 5 or 6 total paints, all on my usual Stillman and Birn paper. The tricky part was using the carmine, a new paint in my palette but with gouache to smooth things out, it turned out well, I think.

Time Travel mini comic

The other day, I decided to give a more simplified and cartoony style a try. I had fun with it but I think it needs more refining to really be something I return to. Overall I spent a lot more time thinking up funny jokes and placement of balloons than I did on the art so that's probably a good way to force myself to focus on composition and reading flow instead of did of the usual stuff I fret over.

I hope this funny even to people who don't talk to me a ton, but I think the premise should be mildly humorous at least.  Here's hoping I got a chuckle out of you!