Watercolour I

Some quick scans of my watercolour experiments, which is such an odd word to use 'cause whenever I think of experiments there are explosions or should be. I scanned some inking drawings and got them printed on a decent stock of paper so that way I don't have to keep redrawing the same drawing again and again. I'm going to try to work with a different colour scheme on the second sheet I have of these characters.

a Photo!

So I must admit that I really can't paint well. I once had a teacher that thought it was hilarious that I wanted to be an illustrator, but my painting skills were alright at best. So flash forward a few years and I'm still not that great with paints, but I wanted to teach myself it again. I'm bound to get it one day and hopefully that day won't be too far away. And I took a photo because I can't figure out how to scan watercolour work without it looking horrible. I know it can be done, but I swear it's a secret that must be passed onto me.

Something Old, Something New, but Nothing Blue

I went back and added some textures into an illustration I finished awhile ago. I like the new feeling it adds to the piece. The other piece is more of a technical piece I wanted to work on. There's something fun just about hatching an ink piece. I'm really not sure if I want to add play flat colours to it or not. I'll play around to see how it looks like before I decide about it.

Kid's Pair Figure Skating - Work in Progress

It's starting to get there. There's a few things I want to try out to render the ice more like ice instead of just light blue.

Ink Sketch III

I haven't done as much finished work lately, but I've been doing a lot of inked illustration for fun. I think I'm slowly getting better and better with how I ink my illustrations, particularly the witch sketch in the middle. Now I've got to find a way to transfer that drawing onto a decent stock of watercolour paper to try some stuff out on it. I should stop doing these ink sketches on scrap paper I have lying around.

Winter Olympics

So the Vancouver Winter Olympics are happening at the moment so I thought to do something Olympic inspired and I thought it'd be way more fun to include kids. One of the problems I had was that all winter Olympic sports is very heavily equipment based like snowboards, skis, etc so I tried to work around that and a cardboard box is like the ultimate swiss ultility anything for a kid hence why it's a bobsleigh in this instance instead of a helmet like I normally like to use it as. I should be done these spots, hopefully, before the Olympics are finished so I'm sort not sure when it's over now that I think about it.

a monster's heart - finished

TA-DA! I finished on time 'cause it's still Valentine's Day.