Issues with Painting

I liked this painting I did a lot. I'd like it even more if a little hadn't accident occurred: some ink spilled on the right cheek of the girl. To compensate for the damage, I made the skin redder with a thicker application of PY43 and PR122, Winsor-Newton and White Nights watercolors and as much lifting as I could manage. I did need to overwork the paper in the process but that doesn't matter. Sad, but that's how it is. I still managed to salvage most of it, so that's a relief. I did at least two other watercolors prior to this before I finished with this one. I dare say I'm almost proud of it. I only used three brushes (technically four) on this, a 1/2 inch oval, a 1/4 inch oval, and a Kuretake waterbrush body with the bristles of a Pentel waterbrush. Jean Haines is right, you only need so many brushes for a painting. The ovals did the heavy lifting, the waterbrush did mostly lifting and adding small additions of color when and where needed. I should do this more often.

Forrestry and Inking

I had some fun inking some stills of tropical Southeast Asian forests. I really enjoyed it and I want to get better at it. I did most of them with my brushes

The first saw some experimentation on my part on smudging my inks. The result is kind of shit but I'm learning and I have some things to study too so it isn't so bad. I'm proudest of the second to the last pic, it's easily the most interesting and unique one of them all. I'd like to do more of those. I need to be more naturally abstract with the other patterns and textures, chunky forms of mostly symmetrical shapes aren't going to help my desire to show the inconsistencies and beautiful chaos of nature and its totality.

There's this too. It's just more fun with the marker and I absolutely love it. I'm trying to me looser with my inks now and not being so anal about super precision, as long as it's relatively thin and I can do the abstract lines and forms easy with the fatter brushes and the marker,  I'm freakin happy.

Dart With Destiny, Status: Completed

I can't show it in its entirety sadly, such are agreements with my partner and the site we're posting it to, but I can show parts of it.

Page Four

Page 10

Page Five

Here's a few of the pages in random order and a bit of commentary.

Page Four:
Probably my favorite page of them all because it's the most quality of them all at least in my view. Other than the Fabbrician and the wonky perspective I can't see how I can do much else to bolster this page.

Page Ten:
Panels three and four disappoint me. The pencils were nearly identical other than the head turn that the man takes when he faced Glen aka Mr. Stubbles. I thought "hey, seeing as he turns his head his clothes have to follow suit!" So I made some adjustments in the inking, and then came the realization that it won't work and how that spoiled my confidence in my inking and made me fuck the placement of the fine liner I was inking with.... it was just TRAGIC. Now it's very different and it spoiled what I was going for. Oh well...

Page Five:
Panel six (the last one, the inset panels within and between panels I count as full panels in their own right here) was cut out and replaced. Seems pretty seamless here.