Pidgeon and Feathers

I am experimenting with a more loose watercolor style. I want to do more with wet paint and allow the water to do its own thing. It is difficult to let go of that control intentionally, but it results in more happy accidents and playful discoveries.

Here, I've also tried to incorporate some watercolor pencils. There is so much more to watercolor pencils than I had imagined! The variety of marks I have been able to make with just one pencil and a little water is very exciting.

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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.

Coat and Hat

Warm, grey marker and flair tip pen. I thought I would try combining these too together, but they seem to interact in weird ways. The hard, black edges seem to really point out the proportional problems here. Tomorrow, I would like to try working in reverse - adding the grey marker after the hard lines. It doesn't seem like it would make much of a difference, but it just might be the key to making this combination a success.

Rainbow Bisque

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