I got to play with some red pencil lead. I think it’s pretty cool!
Meanwhile, Harlow is the easter bunny today and he is thrilled.
My messy little color studies for Project 4. I tried to roughly simulate how it would go with the washes I’ve added to the pencils since the last post, I sorta did the thing where I arbitrarily dumped paint everywhere all over the place.
It was the best.
We’ll see if it turns out to be a good idea! Anyway, now I know where the tone’s supposed to go, so mission almost accomplished for this week. This is going to be a very busy Spring “Break.”
Pencils for project 4, which did indeed turn out to be another image sequence! I have some work to finish up today but then I’m probably going to make a watercolory mess of these if I don’t chicken out.
My guilty pleasure of the week - new tiny sailormoons of the craziest hair variety, but not a button this time. I love the amazon quartet so much. So much! We were going to cosplay them once, but we never got around to doing that.
Please forgive the shameless inaccuracies, particularly regarding the scouts’ shoes and weapons, I just wanted to mess around : B
Here we go! All three color variations of the stone bird are finally ready. I enjoyed this more than I expected, normally I kinda wither and die when I have to do something over and over again.
They’re not quite as floaty as the last project 2. I thought that one came out pretty, but I had a hard time finding good solid places to land with my eyes. So I pushed the pencils and the watercolored shadows darker, and I think I like how it carried through to the finals. Even the rainstormy one feels a lot more solid than the last assignment.
SO.
I’m going to keep pushing it. Project 4 may turn out to be another image sequence depending on how the thumbnails develop, we will see.
Sometimes I make characters tiny. I kind of want to open mini commissions again…
A weird and random selection of OC’s, plus one very random Gumi. Number 4 (Nik) and number 8 (Val) belong to two friends of mine. (Elary if Nik’s hair is wrong I can tint that, I just really wanted to color him.)
Now I’m going to paint pictures and build some fake books.
Stone bird, ready for color. Done in graphite and Daniel Smith hematite watercolor. Which looks like pencil!
Sketches from last Friday. Random stuff, some fanart things, a doodlin’ for two friends of mine of their characters being flirty/appalled.
Here’s project 2! Posting it a little late actually…
One of the things that bothered me about project 1 was how heavy and close everything felt, even though it was supposed to a nebulous, fade into the distance kind of a scene. It couldn’t breathe, if that makes any sense. The differences in the way pastel and watercolor scanned also created problems in the finishing stages, and I wasn’t altogether sure what it was actually doing for the work, other than taking a whooooole lot of time to lay in.
For Project two, I tried to step back and let the watercolor just provide the shading. Half of it was painted monochromatically, while the other was done in colors relating to the color study, just to see what would happen in the final. I wanted to create something that felt detailed and solid, but still loose and ethereal like my older work.
I also brought in self-made textures, and these were painted as a giant wash with somewhat random colors. This added a little spontaneity, and helped to throw off a bit of the monochrome feel.
Also, parrots.
Everywhere.
