courtdraws

well count me in as one of the many people crawling back to tumblr lol :')

i'm gonna try posting here again and i have a few years worth of backlog to go through to catch up to the present, so i'll start posting a bunch of stuff soon

since it's been so long, here's a little life update and self intro: hi i'm courtney, you may have found me here from illustrated gifs (that cat bakery post is still going strong huh), various fandom fanart, or work on pesterquest. by day i'm a background painter in animation! you can find my store, website, and various socials in the links dropdown on my blog

also thank you to anyone who sent nice asks in the past few years! i cleared everything out just to start fresh, but feel free to (re)ask anything you'd like ^_^

ice queen

inazuma girlies sleepover

a late halloween post! spooky nilou and cyno costumes

sumeru sunsets

heizous

muir woods photo study

xingqius

the fuse is lit!

here's a handful of backgrounds i painted during my time on close enough seasons 2 and 3. i wish we could've gotten another season! s2 was my first animation job and a really nice project to start with :')

the windborne bard

gorou pspspspsps

process vid of the beach background in vriska's pesterquest route! pros: pretty water reflections, cons: pirate ship Hard

sk8 dance

4/13 2021 throwback with the new kids

process vid for gamzee's room for pesterquest! this one really shows how messy the initial layout sketch can be. this was also an instance where the sprite was finished before i started coloring, so it was a helpful placeholder that i could pick colors while referencing it so everything looked cohesive in the end :o)

sk8 sketch dump

overall, both past and present, photoshop has been my go-to. i don't really keep track of my brushes much, but it's mostly a lot of kyle brushes or kyle brushes that i've tweaked. definitely the gouache brushes, some pencil or charcoal things, also the runny inkers. biiiig default soft brush is also a fave for general gradients (+dissolve mode if i want grittiness)

i still will pick up procreate occasionally, but it's been a little while. i used it more a few years ago when i wanted to draw pen-to-screen as opposed to using my old intuos, but i've since then gotten a cintiq so i generally prefer using that on my desktop setup with photoshop and more screen real estate. procreate is now more of a backup or for mobile work

process video of drawing the prospit background for jade's route of pesterquest! this is one of my favorites because the golden palette is so punchy and iconic, but also trying to get gothic cathedral architecture down was a challenge lol

conqueror of demons