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Published: 2013-02-08 19:14:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 1963; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 23
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I'm trying a new kind of paper! This, for me, is a Big Dang Deal! It's smoother and thinner than what I'm used to, but I like it (I can't remember what brand it is and it's not watermarked, womp-womp, but I remember where it is in the store relative to my usual paper, un-womp-womp). Overall it did what I wanted it to - made it possible to paint and scan lighter colors without them getting too dingy. I still have to fiddle with my scanner so white scans white someday, though.Oh, and there's fake-o text and those transparent frames on three sides because it's formatted like a picture book, and the picture inside the frame would be the trim. Watercolor & digital.
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Aw, thanks! ^^ You're too kind! And I do lots of digital touch-ups. ; )
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Thanks! : ) Yeah, I need to keep experimenting on it, but so far so good.
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This is simply amazing! I wish I could watercolor this well! Very beautiful!
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Thank you, so kind! There's some sneaky digital involved too. : )
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Looks good! How do you keep your watercolors so ridiculously sharp? I'm seeing a tiny a bit of looseness on the far right squirrel and wondering if everything is pen-tooled shapes for maximum clean-ness and additional value/saturation/gradient tweaks. And is the initial drawing just a super light delicate pencil, occasionally brushed for linework? HOW DO YOU DO THIS?! How long does it take?!
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You pretty much nailed it! I actually do a full watercolor painting, though, then scan it, set it on multiply, and color it again shape-by-shape with the pen tool. The digital part only takes an hour or two and it's meant to make the final piece look like what I wrongly thought the painting looked like until I scanned it (with a couple exceptions - for example, I knew I wanted the girl and foreground stuff to be darker in the final, so I didn't worry about it when painting and just slapped a multiply layer over it in Photoshop. And then I thought it was too dark over the squirrel you mentioned so I lazy/sloppy erased it there. Sshh, don't tell anyone, sharp eyes).
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I've been trying to improve my pen tool skills lately (and digital skills in general), but clearly I'm still at the beginning of that process if this only took you two hours. H. O. L. Y. C. O. W.
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This is kind of a cheating example because I didn't have to make any color decisions, just saturate what was there! But I have been doing it since my junior year, so 2007-8...I remember bringing in just-watercolor, just-digital, and the combo, and the crit group chose the combo and I thought, "Well, crap, just doubled my work". But it gets faster!! : )
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