Sunday, September 30, 2012

Gone Fishin' Part 2

The first thing I do after finishing the drawing is transfer it via light box onto the watercolor paper. Then I "ink" it with acrylic paint to make the line work as you can see on the left. In the right image you can see I started to lay in the shadows on the girl. This is all acrylic wash.


It's hard to tell, but on the left I strengthened the core shadows in the same areas. On the right I added the shadows to the fish and the ocean.


On the left here you can see a printout where I drew some test clouds in before painting them in on the right.


And here is a scan of the underpainting. This is as far as I take it with acrylic washes. Next post I'll bring it to final with concentrated watercolor.

10 comments:

  1. your process is controlled. Amazing. Great piece.

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  2. Really nice! I always love your progressions.

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  3. Fascinating to learn about your process Bill-

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  4. GOD! I love how you manage to blur the color, the effect of the sea is beautiful

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  5. Thanks for showing your work progress... there's a lot for us to learn in it!

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  6. Awesome restraint with the two color. GRRRR I'm so jealous of anyone who can do watercolor this well :)

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  7. Loving the process layouts with this piece!

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