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Thursday, 11 March 2010

Tears of a clown... fish

I wanted to get some more watercolour practice in before I do the next Illustration Friday (that's if I even do it) because as frustrating as watercolour can be, I enjoy it. My past uses of watercolour have been dark to say the least, so much so that the grey and black pans in my tray are getting some serious abuse while the other colours are unused and neglected. Looking for inspiration I turned to my desktop wallpaper, which currently houses some clownfish.

(re-scanned for your viewing pleasure)

I have a habit of wanting to fill in with solid block colours (probably picked up from acrylic painting) so what I wanted to do this time was keep the colours fairly thin, I didn't want to 'Nemo' him. Yes, I failed that. I also outlined in black which, I learned in high school is a serious no-no when you're trying to draw or paint realistically as the real world is not outlined. Well, good thing this isn't in the real world.


Edit: I outlined the outline in white. Now my fish glows.

1 comment:

  1. Well if you are into illustration, black outlining is definitely a yes-yes

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