Constructing the Performance!

Hey guys!  I had enough of my source files laying about that I thought I'd show how I constructed Performance worthy of Ink!

This image was helped at nearly every step of the way by my greatest friend, so I owe it to her that it saw completion!

It started out with the initial sketch which was very ambitious:



I wanted the sisters balancing themselves on each other and doing that signature hand thing they did in the official art.  Problem was the poses here are just too unbalanced.  They look like they'll fall over!  Plus Marie what is even your head.

Against better wishes I redid the bottom half of the image and it turned into this:


The lower half now looks pretty great but the arms are still kind of strange.  At this point my friend suggested switching which arms were holding the mics.  This decision pretty much saved the image from staying a sketch forever.

Now the image looked like this and was shaping up nice:


As I was inking I decided against mirroring the hand poses and needed to shorten the arms to feel more proportional towards the drawing.

Inks ended up like this:


And from there I constructed the colors, background, and everything you see in the final product!



Now normally I'd love to say I did this all in the first shot but heaven knows I even knew where to begin drawing Callie or Marie.
You all saw this one posted in my sketchbook (Or at least I hope you did!  Subscribe to my sketches!  They're worthy of science!)


That was the first ever attempt to draw Callie.  It was great for a first attempt and showed promise!
And then something happened and I lost it.

This happened:


Then this happened:


Both were supposed to lead into the final image's setup but that obviously never happened.  I learned some invaluable things with those sketches though, which all translated to the final image.

Anyway thanks for taking the time to read and look at this!  As time goes on I might do this more pending interest and pending available resources.  I tend to work several hours without saving so I'll easily start an image and be done with flat colors before I save the first postable incarnation.

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Just as a reminder I am appearing at TrotCon 2015 THIS WEEKEND!  Find me here! 
Trotcon 2015 map!
Trotcon 2015!
Here's where you can find me and my mom this year at Trotcon!  I will be posting my print lineup soon.  Please be aware that some prints from last year are being axed due to lack of interest.  I hope to have a new print or two before TrotCon hits but [Steven Universe] stuff happens.
Also 10,000 buttons!  I hope to have at least that many.  Maybe 30,000.  But not 20,000 that's a bad number.

Check out the print lineup here!
Featuring this year's current UPDATED lineup!Hey con goers!  TrotCon is in less than A WEEK AWAY.
Get ready here comes the lineup for prints coming at you for TrotCon as it currently stands!
I continue to work hard as I have a good idea or two for prints but we're so close now I'm not sure!


Take off your helmet, Nightmare Moon. by Dreatos

PRINT INCOMING!  Fresh off the presses expect this at this year's round of conventions!

As a newcomer there's now a lineup of buttons hitting the table this con season!


I'm hoping to at least double this number before T