The Art of Daniela Basista

Monday, March 16, 2020

Rey-designs (get it?)

Did these re-designs of Rey's outfit from The Rise of Skywalker, I was not crazy about the costume in the movie so I tried my hand at some iterations.

These were my first ideas off the top of my head, each of them are "too much" and "too Jedi" for my liking. But ! each of them have an inkling of aspects that I like. Particularly the mid-calf white boots, wool arm cozies, and white pants. (I also like how I drew Rey, character wise, in all of these)

Now on to my second sketch, I tried to combine Rey's Jakku look with the idea shed be on a colder planet. Turtle neck, arm cozies (again), basic pants ,boot, and a more jacket like version of her flowy scarves. Still this felt "too much/Jedi" for me. And I relized I was thinking "Jedi" (which I never liked) when I should of been thinking "Rebel". More economical, stylish, and fun. This lead to the sketch in the top corner. Combining all of the ideas I liked, It was perfect !

A little fuzzy, but this is what I came up with. I made sure she had color, Rey mentions shed "Never seen so much green in my whole life" so after the events of Ep.7 and 8, and mostly tan, grey,brown and white color pallet Id like to think shed get the opportunity to pick some new clothes for herself, and green being such a rarity in her life, well, this jumpsuit would be just what calls to her. I also make sure to stay true to Rey's design sensibility with the arm bands and light color pallet coming into play with the wool arm cozies and white Han-Solo-ish vest (More rebel than Jedi) but still having the feel of her scarves. I also made her boots a little more pointy, with a GO-GO boot feel, stylish right? I like that this outfit still feels like Rey, but is fresh and new.

Monday, February 17, 2020

Once On This Island Costume for Ti Moune

Here is a suggestion for Ti Moune's costume for my school's production of "Once On This Island". Simple, yet feminine, the overly large shirt grows with her into young adulthood. The sash she wears around her waist would be/represent one of the "waves" that swept her youngers self away by a flood sent by Agwe, one of the gods in the story.

Sunday, February 9, 2020

Han and Leia

Felt like drawing something cute 💙

I'm currently trying to get comfortable with the brushes in Clip Studio Paint. For sketching, I'm currently using the realistic water color brush. I miss some of the old brushes I had in Autodesk sketchbook, I should try to figure out how to export them into Clip Studio...but that's such a process :/