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Helen Brady's avatar

LOVE! Thank you for sharing this my love, I struggle with colour and you always smash it so this is so helpful. Xx

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Kate Herbert's avatar

You're very welcome! It's been quite interesting to stop and think about how I make images, instead of just going for it. I'm glad you found it useful xx

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Juliana Penkova's avatar

Thank you Kate for sharing your process. Your illustrations look so delightful. It’s easy to forget how much work is hidden behind. Looking at your process videos makes me want to do more digital work 😃 and reading your post I feel like you will have a traditional media holiday soon ❤️ I would love to know which size do you plan your illustrations and how much dpi, also how many layers do you use in average?

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Kate Herbert's avatar

I know what you mean- even I didn't realise how much work there is until I started documenting it. Your work is beautiful in traditional and digital so I'd say go for it! I usually set up my board at 8 x 10 inches, 300dpi. The number of layers varies but this one ended up 355 layers (including 91 groups)! It takes several documents on Procreate, then I merge them once in Photoshop.

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Juliana Penkova's avatar

Kate, this is INSANE! 355 layers. My admiration for your work and patience just x 1000 .

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