I've been seeing a lot of really cool painters online recently and it made me want to have a go. This week I took a morning off from photoshop and dug out my old paintbrushes and some gouache paint, which I've never used. Using different types of paint is a real learning curve, I'm more used to oils (although I haven't used them in 10 years), but what I did love about gouache is that it dries very quickly. As someone who smudges everything this is a real advantage. I also like that you can repaint areas that have gone wrong very easily, which is a must when you're new! I didn't quite get the thin layers of paint I wanted but this was only my first go and I'll definitely play around with them some more. The draw of painting for me is the looseness, my book work tends to be very precise and I wanted to move away from that. All of the finishing details are in pencil because I love the texture of coloured pencils and I can control them far better than a fine brush.
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| It's only little. |
Here are a few of the process shots. The final image is A6 and I used Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils because I happen to have a box and they're really lovely to draw with.
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| Sketch and first layer of paint |
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| More paint |
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| That's enough paint! |
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| Details |
I seem to have an obsession with drawing mice at Christmas. I like this one, she's pretty cute.
Hopefully more adventures in paint will follow.
