Fanart MWPP: Frolic

[ani_bester]

Artist: ani_bester
Title: Frolic
Characters: MWPP
Rating: G
Media used: Watercolor and india ink
Challenge: No
In the Challenge Vote?: No
Concrit?: Yes
Warnings: N/a
Notes/comments: MWPP playing at night

Comments

[ani_bester]

Aww thank you so much ^__^ I'm so glad they came out! Brushing those lines in straight with india ink was SCARY!

I'm kinda mixed order actually.
I did the initial large area watercolor washes first. I palced clean water on the eares I wanted pain, and left the areas I wanted white dry, then but the yellow wash on by dabbing it in places and lightly directing it with my brush. If I felt an area was too bright, I either added a small amount of water and spread the yellow out a bit.

then I dropped in the darker colors and let them bloom as they would. Sometimes I tilted the paper a bit to get it to flow in certain directions (most noticable at the top)

I let all that dry, then added the india ink images that I didn't want to bleed, so the castle thing, MWPP, the tree on the left, and the moon.

Then I worked in some more watercolor washes, let those *almost* dry, so some areas of the paper were drier than others, so the india ink would be dry on dry in some places, and dry on wet in otehrs.
I dabbed in some india ink in areas I wanted it to spread/have less contorl over (most of the black landscape affects, most of the shadows, and part of the willow).

Then I let those dry, and tightened the inks with dry on dry in areas where it had spread too much and lost some of it's structure (mostly the willow).

I let that dry and then chest added watercolorw ashes to ares that looked unfinished or too light until I was happy with the color balance.

The composition btw, wasn't an accident. I sketched it out first in my sketchbook so I knew about where I wanted the figures, tree, and castle. I felt it was too heavy on the right side though, so the other tree was addeed for balance, as was the outlined moon.