#study and analysis

It’s World Watercolor Month! In these pictures I used watercolor pencils and a water brush. I started out drawing the red hair of the girl sitting in front of me and trying to figure out which colors I would add in for the shadows and highlights. I went a little overboard on the purple in the second one. Then I drew Zeno’s dragon scaled arm and loved it so I had to draw the rest of him! The friend who was sitting next to me asked me if he was eating an apple, so I tried to make his medallion more medallion-y but I can’t tell if it worked because I can’t unsee the apple. :\ I love the red and yellow on his hands and arms, though! Overall the effect is quite nice. I struggle with over-rendering sometimes. I get pictures to a certain point and then I try to ‘push it’ and they end up muddy and garbled. So for this month I’m going to focus on not over-rendering and making sure I understand the light in my pictures.

World watercolor month day 2. This one was kind of tough. I’ve got a mixed media sketchbook that I want to finish up, so the paper is lower weight than what I usually use for watercolors. It warped a bit and I ended up having to sop up puddles with paper towel. And then it’s really hot right now so the water was evaporating faster than I was used to so none of my washes are very smooth. Which is a look, I guess, but not one I was going for. I finished some of the details in gel pen and colored pencil.

World Watercolor Month day 6. For this one I needed to use up some colors in my palette so I soaked them up with paper towels and hung them on a piece of paper. Then I used a spray bottle and sprayed the paper until I liked it. Oh, and then I added the umbrella person.