Keeping track of progress on creative projects
Inspired by yesterday’s ghost, today I switched to Copic swimming pool colors. The blue-green background colors (BG49 Duck Blue and BG15 Aqua) are both in the range between my frequent flyers (Cool Shadow and Ice Ocean).
The leaf is G09 Veronese Green and G03 Meadow Green. As the look here vaguely suggests a leaf floating in a pool, I left off the drop shadow.
I tried some new stuff with this one. The background is wet-on-wet, with water added with a brush one row at a time. The substrate is mixed media paper, which doesn’t absorb much of the water. That made it perfect for the effect I was after here. One of the sketchbooks I experimented with yesterday drank the water so quickly that it was practically a dry surface before I could even get any paint on in.
Though this paper leaves plenty of water on the surface, it does tend to buckle a bit. The surface turns into ridges and valleys, and the valleys become lakes. This produces all kinds of fascinating effects, such as what happened in row three, column one.
The background colors are Kuretake Gansai Tambi Viridian and Malechite. Greens in this general range seem like “swimming pool” colors to me, which makes them apt for the watery look. They’re also in the same hue family as the cover of the Leuchtturm1917 sketchbook I impulse bought at May Day last week, which may be too fancy for me to ever actually draw in.
After the paper dried, I used Cobalt Blue and Cerulean Blue for the leaf.
This one might well set a record for the longest time between under-sketch and final drawing. I did the set-up digital and pencil stuff shortly after I finished the last one, but then I got caught up with work and didn’t get back to start the ink until yesterday.
Hop-Frog has the king right where he wants him, but he hasn’t put the final twist into motion yet.
