This postThe other day I bought some paper for inking and a new paintbrush. Drew this fellow on the right:
After I finished, I had an urge to do watercolors, so I pulled out the dinky little set I have, chucked the pathetic little brush that came with it, and used my nice new squirrely brush to paint this girl in a lake. The brush made all the difference. (The other thing that made a difference was pencilling out my drawing first, rather than just painting from scratch.) Anyway, this my first real watercolor, and it does indeed have problems (the blotch on her hair, the weird skin coloring, etc.), but it’s a start. And it successfully managed to get me to stop loathing watercolors and start loving them. :) As for the story behind it, I originally just had the girl’s head and the suit coat, and then I put the sky behind her, and then I wanted to extend the suit but I messed up and it looked so much like a lake that I decided to make that the picture instead. :)
