Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Process on Today's Daily

I had this thought that I should take some process pics of today's watercolor.  Unfortunately I was trying to use my phone camera which doesn't have a flash, so they turned out extremely dark.  This took about 3 hours from starting the sketch to finishing but I was working at a very leisurely (read: unfocused) pace.  No hairdryer this time!


Recently I've been starting all my watercolors just painting over the whole sketch with a light color (this was the yellow of the the background) and building up all the colors from there, bit by bit.  I lost track of how many layers of red it took to make the hair look like that, but basically every time I use red in my watercolors I wish I were working with gouache instead ;)  Here's the final from the scanner: