Keeping track of progress on creative projects
After nearly three years of working on the Leaf Ghost series, I’m feeling ready to expand things a bit. With that in mind, this one’s mostly a color study for something bigger next year. Thus the unfinished look.
It’s interesting how the metallics (Valejo Bronze and Silver) look different depending on how the light hits them.
It appears to work reasonably well to do the dark squares on a dry surface and dilute the paint with wet-on-wet application for the light squares. The grey and blue work well together, too.
This is the second Poe ghost for which I ran out of space with just a sentence or two to go in the story. Weird.
When I ran ink tests for Winsor & Newton Nut Brown and Peat Brown, they looked like they’d be different enough to use at equal saturations. But when I actually started drawing, it swiftly became apparent that they were too close together in hue. So I spaced the lines a bit more on the lighter squares.
They don’t all have to be odd moments from my childhood. Sometimes it’s just a bit of humor inspired by sharing the road with a bad driver.
Second ghost in a row with a Copic marker running dry. This time it was Yellowish Skin Pink, which must have been an old one because the company has changed the name to something less racist.
You can see it fade out, particularly in row six column four.
Winsor & Newton Sunshine Yellow works well in combination with other colors. But it’s difficult to draw with. It’s nearly invisible when applied, which makes it hard to draw narrow parallel lines.
I wonder if it’s supposed to work like that or if I’ve got an old bottle with separated pigments.
