#capstone progress

IT’S 4AM but this marks like? 2.5/4 done w sketches? I’m really happy w how Robin turned out :) definitely still need to tweak some things w/ Raven though…something is off and I’m not sure what. but for now time to sleeeep

The only “problem” was that when displaying it, no one knew what a kingfisher looked like, so the bird was less obvious, haha…

Robin went much more smoothly than Raven did. I had a much clearer image in my head of what hers would look like, which certainly helped. The tree in the background was referenced off a picture I took in early spring. I wondered if I should add more details, especially to emphasize the literary connection to the Secret Garden more, but I liked the more minimalistic concept of her image, so I kept it simple. Also at this point, I tried to use some of the techniques I learned from Chinese brush painting when I was younger. This would influence the last two paintings as well.

The process for Raven was definitely the longest out of all four paintings – likely because it was the most ambitious composition and because it was the first one I began, so I was still trying to figure out what I wanted to express with it and experimenting with the paints and methods of applying it. For example, the pattern on the shirt was completely freehand, and thus ended up being less intricate. Originally I had wanted to use gold watercolor or ink for it, but all I had on hand was acrylic, which is a lot less flexible. It ended up working but not quite matching my expectations. I don’t think I quite consider this one finished, but somehow people seemed most impressed by this one out of the four when I displayed it.

I redrew this skirt like five times and still not sure if I’m satisfied… but other than a few small tweaks Kingfisher is pretty much done, so gonna move on to Hummingbird soon (welp)