Star Wars Studies

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.

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.

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.)