![]() The Anchiornis’ coloring is based partly on recent scientific discovery regarding its actual feather coloration, partly on modern Pileated Woodpeckers. Bottom: Some mossy sloth thing, Anchiornis, Velociraptor, CaudipteryxĪs you can see, I went on a bit of a proto-avia spree at the end. Top: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Golden-faced dragon, Blue dragon of some sort, Eel-inspired dragon. Tagged art, color studies, dip pens, monsters, sketchdump, watercolor, WIP / 4 Comments Birdmarks part 2 If you’re interested, they’re after the cut. I took photos of the piece as it progressed. Or I suppose I could put a slip of newsprint down under my hand like you’re supposed to. ![]() I’ve heard that laying down a layer of spray fixative over the pencilwork can help (putting a barrier of plastic between you and those hand oils!) so I may try that. It’s hard to see the effects of this in the scan, but it’s there. One lesson I learned is that I really, really need to make more of an attempt to prevent my hand oils from getting on the paper while I’m drawing. ![]() I don’t believe I pushed myself nearly enough, in the end, but the result was good at least. Sometimes one needs to draw something silly. It’s a pretty silly, simple picture, but I like how it turned out overall. Also, I was trying to speed up my overall worktime (this sort of worked out). I’ve mentioned that I’m working on my color usage, yes? The entire point of this particular piece was to push my color usage, and experiment a bit with my application of watercolor. Tagged art, dip pens, ink, monsters, ramblings, watercolor, WIP / 3 Comments Goldfish Monster, with some WIP I forgot to get a scan of the initial pencil lines, but I do have an ink-less and gouache-less stage below the cut, if you’re interested. So I guess this is what pokémon would look like if I’d been the one to design them. I was having an extremely strong urge to draw pokémon fanart, which I channeled into this instead. I think I’d like to practice painting slimy things some more. I tried using gouache for the first time in this one! And I also used salt successfully for the first time! So I guess I’m not actually done experimenting, but at least it’s more typical to my work. Expect more of that sort of thing next time I start feeling insecure about my art (which knowing me will probably be next week). I do think that the experimentation was really useful, but it’s nice not to feel so panicky whenever I think about making work for someone. I’m back to painting in about the same way I did originally (save for the fact that I ink last, rather than first) and I no longer feel quite as convinced that my color work is terrible.
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