Roar

It’s hard for to me create digital art when I have a computer problem, especially if that problem is not having a computer. So I took advantage of the sembreak and borrowed my sister’s laptop. I have a lot of pending art work that needs to be colored on Photoshop, which I just learned how to use a few months ago. I had to learn how to use it because I suck in traditional media. Like writing, drawing is also a form of therapy for me. It helps keep me relaxed and temporarily forget all the problems around me. Kinda like alcohol but without the hangover.

Here’s a new drawing that I’ve just finished. It’s inspired by the music video of Katy Perry for her song Roar.

This is the photo reference I used for Katy Perry. I got it from the music video by playing it on full screen and pressing the ever-reliable Prnt Scr button.

From that reference, I made this line art. Note that I changed the outfit here because let’s face it, Katy Perry was meant to always be seen with a cleavage. She used this outfit on the latter part of the video. 

Now that the line art is done, I start to apply the flat colors. Unlike when I eat fried chicken, I always start with the skin when I color.

Then I lay the flats for the hair. I went with a dark, blue-purple shade because I believe that’s Katy’s best hair color.

Next, I used a leopard skin pattern for her outfit.

Don’t forget the eyes and the lips.

After all the flat colors have been laid, I work on the shadings and highlights. I usually start with the hair because it’s the most complicated part, at least for me.

Then I work on the shadings and highlights for the skin. 

Here I made the shadings and highlights for the outfit.

Then I lay the shadings and highlights for the eyes and lips.

Once I’m happy with the shadings and highlights, I proceed to coloring the line art itself. I think it looks better if it’s like this. 

Now it’s time for the background. I was supposed to draw a bunch of fireflies forming a tiger, kinda like the one in the music video. However, I was too fucking lazy to do that so I took (read: stole) an image from the internet, applied a zoom spiral blur, and it came out looking like this.

Finally, I place my signature on Katy’s knee. I own her now. Bwahahaha!

Here's where I stole the tiger photo: http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/31700000/Angry-Tiger-tigers-31737545-1920-1440.jpg