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| One bad Bobba |
Realised today that I should probably keep the posts rolling. I've been working on a painting for about a week now, but it is nowhere near ready to be shown. I'm currently on the second iteration of it, as the medium/ surface combination I was using on the first was being uncooperative. I've also been spending a lot of time working out color relationships and reworking parts of the painting that I had previously thought firmly established. Needless to say, my current project is one of the most involved things I've worked on in a very long time. Here's hoping it works out well enough to share.
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| Gamorrean guard from Jabba's collection of minions |
I've also been working on bumping up my understanding of color, thus today's post is some "quick" color studies I worked on recently. I say "quick" because they were meant to be just pencil and watercolour but instead became pencil, watercolour, felt-tip pen, and gouache. The pen and gouache came in after I lost a lot of detail to color bleeding with the watercolour. I got impatient with the wet paper and didn't want to get a hair dryer to help speed up the process.... I'm just going to chalk it up as a learning experience; treat the medium properly, or suffer the consequences (unless you like the results, then you can enjoy the consequences.) They took much more time than I had originally intended. Still, they were a fun little exercise.
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| Admiral "It's a Trap" Ackbar |
I should be posting the initial sketch for my current project soon. Until then, well, I'll just keep working on it.
p.s. I know that I use the English version of watercolour, it just happens that I believe it is a more aesthetically pleasing version (I'm weird like that.)
