Colour in Mixed Media

This was done for a friend. Although, we’ve since grown apart I’d like to think that he still enjoys it. The scan doesn’t really do it any justice since colour and technology don’t always go that well together. The colours are more toned down due to being out of the gamut range. That’s life for you.

This was actually an interesting process. It was an excersice in not being so controlling of what goes on the paper as well. The girl was done in pencil and then coloured using Prisma Colour Scholer pencil crayons. (I swear by those things. They are amazing.) The background is watered down acrylic paint. I attempted to make it look watercolour, but I quite by accident put too much paint on my brush at one point and everything was given a thicker application of my water/paint mixture. The colours originally weren’t supposed to be as bright as they are it just happened that way, but the result turned out in my favour. I grew quite fond of the yellow, a colour I’m not always keen on.

Technical Stuff
drawn on 100lbs smooth Bristol (11×17)
Prisma Colour Scholer Pencils
Chroma Colour Acrylic paint

Ainsley

So its a sketcblog and other than that I’m not sure what else to say. I’m quite put off though. WordPress is better than Blogger I’m told, but its sad that I can’t alter my CSS without paying for the opportunity to do it. Something that I can do for free over at blogger. For my purposes though? This is probably better and I’ll eventually get a theme in which I can alter at the very least the top graphic, when I actually get around to making one.

The piece to the side is Ainsley. I enjoy that name quite a big as its gaelic in origin. It means my meadow, but really that’s just a name. I had her drawn for Aggro awhile back. The comic in question being one that requires her to be in attire not usually seen in my drawings. It was great for learning to draw anatomy I wouldn’t usually have to draw and to try out a new photoshop colouring technique. The drawing was done using a mechanical pencil, scanned, and coloured in photoshop. No special lineart, I didn’t have the time, but this is how she turned out finished. And if anyone is wondering, she’s modeling after Carmen Electra.