#middlesex fells

At the risk of stating the blindingly obvious... I’m getting better by planning the drawing as if it were a watercolor painting (obviously they are both transparent media): work light to dark, plan the edges of the shapes, “cut in” interesting shapes with darks to add definition, etc.

It continues to feel weird to work with such light, high-saturation colors since normally muddying everything is my jam. (Which raises an interesting possibility: what if I used these on toned paper?) But it speaks to how well-designed the sampler sets are, that the colors play so nicely together even with (to me) some crazily saturated things in there, like the cyan for the sky.