Grinding Away At The Princess Charming Art.

Grinding away at the Princess Charming art.

I always need some kind of noise - preferably a movie or tv show - when I’m working on art. But in order to not be distracting, it can’t be something I haven’t seen or something that is too interesting. (Crime procedurals are fantastic for this purpose.)

When I started working on finishing Princess Charming art, I started re-watching Buffy on Netflix. (I’ve seen it before and the snappy dialogue keeps me entertained without needing to watch it.) Since the KickStarter ended, I’m up to Episode 9 of Season 3. Considering that Buffy has 22 episode seasons, I think that’ll tell you how much work I’m putting in on this.

Princess Charming: books for awesome princesses

We're making fairy tale books with princesses that kids can admire and aspire to be!

The SEKKRIT PRINCESS PROJECT is finally live! +Josh Roby and I are working to make a series of children's books that we're calling Princess Charming about awesome princesses. These are books for everyone who is tired of princesses that are thin, white, straight, and utterly utterly passive. We're working hard to create stories that don't fit gender stereotypes, and which have a diversity of representation. These will be books that I will be excited to read to my daughter, because we're aiming to create princesses that can subvert the toxic princess trope by actually being positive role models. If you have children in your life - of ANY gender - who like princesses, I hope you'll consider supporting us - or at least helping us spread the word. I'm very passionate about this project and want to help make it as awesome as it deserves to be.

I seriously love her style. These are gorgeous.

Got some Prints up for sale at my 

BIG CARTEL

take a look, I’m only doing domestic orders for now, I’ll post when I start doing international!

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Hi, folks! If you want to see in-progress updates of the Princess Charming art as I make it, it'll be on the Princess Charming tumblr.

Hi, folks! Anna here. What with the KickStarter over, I’ve been attempting to throw myself into art production. Unfortunately, I’m facing a bit of a learning curve with my new tablet (I cannot recommend Manga Studio 5 highly enough) as well as caring for a sick toddler. But here’s what I’ve got so far for the first finished spread.

I’m happy with the results. I hope I can find a way to make the coloring a bit more efficient, though…

Anyhow. For future in-progress updates (I plan on posting a lot of them), follow us here on tumblr!

I posted some more updates over on the Princess Charming tumblr.

I’ve been sending in-progress updates to Josh with the status of spreads as I complete them, so I thought this would be a good example to show a bit of my process. Before any shading happens, I lay down all the flat colors. This way I make sure that the colors look good in the whole image before getting bogged down in the minutiae of lighting.

…although now that I look at these, I notice that I forgot to turn the cobweb layer back on in the final image. Drat! There’s always something.