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I was visiting ~KassyNaVerdis the other day and she showed me a beautiful watercolor how-to book by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law (who is AWESOME). So after some zoo sketching, we went home and watercolored like mad!
I'm learning how to use them like you're supposed to now! 8D I'm actually PAINTING with them and not just...coloring with them. So these are some techniques I picked up from the book and played with: 1. Salted the background, wet-on-wet for the giraffe. 2. GIRAFARIE...*cough* Did a wash of purple shadows, then a wash of color, then blotted away for highlights. (Also has some iridescent medium to make it shimmer.) 3. Wash over the whole area, then did a second coat for shadows, then blotted away the highlights. (I LOVE that blotting technique! It's like drawing with kneaded eraser in charcoal.) 4. Purple shadows and yellow highlights. Yay color! 5. MERAFFE! Purple shadows, washes of color, then hydrogen peroxide for the spots and background. |
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Bow to the might of the CAT or ye shall perish!!
.....I just don't know how yet....
And they look neat, I love what you do with watercolors here. (They all seem to have shorter necks and more horse-ish anatomy, but still).
(You're right about that. The giraffes were being difficult that day and moving a lot, so there was a lot of fill-in-the-blank with anatomy.)
yay for watercolour! (i only have the pencils for it but you can create awesome effects -> even without salting or such)
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