{"id":129,"date":"2017-09-26T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2017-09-26T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T18:56:00","slug":"featured-artist-brandy-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Featured Artist: Brandy Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elven Portrait Adoption<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Welcome to Ellen Million Graphics\u2019 Featured Artist of the Week! Each week (or so), we select an EMG artist and share their work and history. We hope you enjoy getting to see incredible artists this way.<\/span><\/p>\n

This week, our spotlight turns to illuminate that artist of colorful characters and storied scenes, Brandy Woods! Brandy joins us from Montreal, and is originally from Louisiana where the walls of her family home were papered in her childhood drawings. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Curious Human Portrait Adoption<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cMy mom tells me that even before I held a pencil, I was using fingernail polish to ‘paint’ on my highchair,\u201d Brandy confided. She\u2019s largely self-taught, and drew early inspiration from Wendy Pini before being deeply influenced by manga. She\u2019s spent the years since refining her style, and attended Dawson College\u2019s Illustration & Design program in her 30\u2019s, graduating at the top of her class with honors and multiple scholarships. <\/span><\/p>\n

When creating, Brandy most often sketches in pencil before digitally coloring her works in Corel Painter or Photoshop. She also enjoys working with acrylics, oils, and watercolors. Much of her inspiration is drawn from fantasy and various world cultures. When she\u2019s <\/span>not<\/span><\/i> creating, you\u2019re likely to find her reading\u2014\u201dOne of my life goals is to have a library like Neil Gaiman’s,\u201d she told us (a worthy goal!)\u2014or playing video games. She enjoys science fiction, fantasy, mythology, and more. She also enjoys collecting Breyer horses, red foxes, and fountain pens. You can discover more about her and her work at <\/span>her website<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Owl Guy Portrait Adoption<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Spellcaster Portrait Adoption<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brandy is one of EMG\u2019s most popular Portrait Adoption artists, with a gallery of seventeen portraits – several of which are on wishlists and many of which come with the option to purchase the original. She\u2019s an inspired portrait artist as well – her character studies pull off impressive characterization in expression, stance, clothing and equipment details, and more. You can even request customizations on a number of her portraits. In her gallery, you\u2019ll find everything from women warriors in both sensible and non-sensible armor, dark elves and skeptical elves, spellcasters and unicorn companions and characters in excessively long coats. She\u2019s also open to commissions! We invite you to discover more of her work at EMG through the link below!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Barbarian Portrait Adoption<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brandy\u2019s <\/span>Sketch Fest gallery<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Ellen Million Graphics\u2019 Featured Artist of the Week! Each week (or so), we select an EMG artist and share their work and history. We hope you enjoy getting to see incredible artists this way. This week, our spotlight turns to illuminate that artist of colorful characters and storied scenes, Brandy Woods! Brandy joins … Continue reading “Featured Artist: Brandy Woods”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,23],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-artists","tag-brandy-woods","tag-portrait-adoption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}