Weekend Experiment: Get Equipped

It's Megaman! To be honest, I liked this one a lot better before I added the outlines. The drawing itself is a bit off. The background wash is streak-y. There are just a ton of things I'm not happy with here.
But I really liked the small washes on the feet and helmet. I am starting to become more confident fading from dark to light. It's also starting to become clear to me how to achieve more brilliant colors. As in all media, it's a matter of contrast.
There's a whole other world of color theory in watercolor. The world of simple primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries is just the surface...

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Ice Skating Characters

A Competent Profile

As I start to become more familiar with proportions and measurements for the various faces I attempt to draw, I am starting to wonder how to make a more complete portrait with my limited time. Do I stick to lines? Do I bring a brush and some ink? Which lines should I include? Which shapes are important to represent? Maybe this is a good time to look at the work other artists have done and try to work out some of their methods.

Inktober Day 3 - "Bait"

Old school pen and ink. I haven't used a crow quill pen since high school - and, even then, I remember struggling to get it to work. This time, I thought I would try to create something using only cross-hatching. The prompt word today is "bait". This word took me into a lot of different ideas, but the one I ultimately landed on is based on the will-o-wisp. In my head, I imagined glowing orbs in front of a copse of swamp trees all created with layers of cross-hatching. Things had to be scaled back a bit. There are still two trees in the background if you look hard enough. Success? Sort of. It forced me to use a different kind of pen and, in doing so, made me want to keep going and get better with it.

Rainbow Bisque

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