A thing I did recently, I wanted to try to do some more of those illustrations and maybe actually color them this time.
More details past the break.
Regarding the drawing itself it's kinda random. I guess my subconscious wanted to regurgitate some exotic adventure stuff ... or colonial imagery maybe. :-/
I did also draw naked dancing women but very very small for fear someone would notice. XD
It looks like a witchy caucasian thing, which seems strange in the setting.
Actually I bought myself a new sketchbook to start doing these :
I liked the color so much ! A5 format. It was reasonably priced and also had watercolor written on the sleeve thing under the wrap unlike the slightly cheaper sketchbooks I buy usually. To be honest I have several blank sketchbooks in stock, but yeah, sometimes you just gotta get a pretty one for your things. Or maybe it's just that I'm an idiot with money, which I am.
The paper does okay with watercolors, not sure the ones I had do worse though.
As for technique ... well the watercolors here are what they are. There's room to grow. I was taught a rather basic technique that implies doing the shadows first (with a grey resulting from a mix of blue and brown) and then adding touches of color here and there which I'm rather confident with pulling off. Here I tried going full color, mixed that technique for the foreground and improvised some stuff and I did some mistakes. Some I supposedly know how to avoid, like I know about wetting the paper in given areas to better distribute color and do some gradients, but I got a bit lazy here because of all the details and added color directly resulting in visible and often disgraceful strokes, others I'm not so sure. I wish I had planned the repartition of the colors better to make the different planes more distinct, the wall would deserve better detail, I also think that some of the ink lines should have been more or less thick.
I'm happy with the tree though.
Anyway, if you know about watercolors and have some advice to give or see something that bugs you, criticism is welcome.
I guess I've been rambling too much. Anyway thanks for looking at my stuff if you did, I hope you like it.
