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Watercolor again~

This time~The kiss

It’s really hard to tell it’s Sanguinius🤨

Watercolor and lots lots of gold leaves. Heavy inspired by Judith I (Oil painting by Klimt).

I actually made this painting for my fanfic ☺️. In the story, Sanguinius and the reader discuss a painting, which, in my mind, looked something like Judith I.

Link to the story (Sanguinius x reader x Guilliman. Yes, I know I am greedy. One Primarch is certainly not enough😍).

I just saw your rendition of Sanguinius and it was stunningly beautiful ❤️

Hi there, thank you so much for your question 😊. I believe watercolor can be a bit challenging compared to other methods. It’s difficult to control the outcome during the process, as the intensity of shades tends to lighten as the paint dries. Also, watercolor requires careful time management to apply the paint at just the right moment when the paper is at the desired level of wetness. I think starting with mixed media might be more helpful. For instance, you could combine watercolor with acrylics and wax or oil-based color pencils to achieve more controlled results.

For tutorials, I personally followed cafe watercolor on YouTube. He draws majority landscapes. I think watercolor landscapes are important to practice because this kinds of art uses the most unique technique of watercolor, “wet in wet”. If you master this technique, you are the master of watercolor ☺️. Cafe watercolor’s video is very detailed and provided some fundamental watercolor techniques.

I also followed Lioba Bruckner on YouTube. Her work inspired me a lot. I like art nouveau style as much as she does, that’s why I followed her🥰 I think if you like my Sanguinius portrait. You will mostly likely like her style as well.

Another important thing is, you need a good canvas for painting watercolor. I always use 300gsm paper, preferably pure cotton. Also, I think it is better to start with A5 or A4 sizes for practice. Large size canvas require better management and planning especially for watercolor. For paints, I think they are not as vital as canvas. You can get affordable basic ones, and pick some special effect shades from brands like Daniel Smith. For brushes, I think natural hair bristle brushes are the best. Synthetic brushes holds less water and pigments, so it is bit harder to use.