Christmas Card WIP
I'm having a hard time focusing today. Need to finish a bunch of things, including this year's Christmas card design. Somehow though, I would have loved to draw while talking to someone. I guess it's one of those days.
SO! I decided to share my work in progress here to change my mind a little. I'll try and post each step this week. Hopefully, by the end of the week, I will be done.
So step one, the sketch/idea:
I wanted to do something different this year. I tried to draw something I've never drawn really before. A dragon. I'm also pushing myself to add more to my backgrounds, as I find that the fact I don't do as much perspective in my work is pure lazyness from my part. So I added the castle in the back, though right now, it hasn't been drawn with vanishing points or anything, I just wanted to see what it could look like. I will fix this on the final pencil version.
Step two is me trying make it all work together with a little bit of color. I pretty much always do a color test in photoshop before doing a painting. If it doesn't work in photoshop, I am more likely to give up on the idea or try another color scheme before moving on. Right now, I look at the colors, they work BUT, I know that the watercolour will never have colors as bright as this, so I might do a little bit of adjusting later on to fix this problem.
And that's it for now! Next step is the penciling!
SO! I decided to share my work in progress here to change my mind a little. I'll try and post each step this week. Hopefully, by the end of the week, I will be done.
So step one, the sketch/idea:
I wanted to do something different this year. I tried to draw something I've never drawn really before. A dragon. I'm also pushing myself to add more to my backgrounds, as I find that the fact I don't do as much perspective in my work is pure lazyness from my part. So I added the castle in the back, though right now, it hasn't been drawn with vanishing points or anything, I just wanted to see what it could look like. I will fix this on the final pencil version.
Step two is me trying make it all work together with a little bit of color. I pretty much always do a color test in photoshop before doing a painting. If it doesn't work in photoshop, I am more likely to give up on the idea or try another color scheme before moving on. Right now, I look at the colors, they work BUT, I know that the watercolour will never have colors as bright as this, so I might do a little bit of adjusting later on to fix this problem.
And that's it for now! Next step is the penciling!