WIP Goodies
Welp, I finally got off my lazy booty and decided to scan in some current WIPs. I made a decision three days ago not to scan in any more WIPs of my work, because I always seem to jinx them by not finishing them. However, I seem to have broken the curse by finishing Suz and the Incredible, Irrepressible Pancho Villa Weasel, so I thought I have another go.
As some of you know I work almost exclusively with Prismacolor colored pencils and Prismacolor or Copic art markers. I have used watercolors and oils, but I find the ease and simplicity of pencils and markers wonderful. I've been asked to do a colored pencil tutorial in the past, and I tried to do one but I found I work way too erratically to come up with one that made any sense. That said, I'm hoping you can see a little bit of how I use them in the following WIPs.
This piece is "Pink Dogwood" and you can see how I slapped on a base color in the background using Prismacolor marker in Celedon. It provides a nice, flat finish to spread pencils over. I'm using three colored pencils for the shadowing and highlights, while letting a little of the base color shine through. It's a very straighforward technique that with is very easy to execute. Just be sure to keep your pencils sharp!
For this one (I call her Sparkleberry. Hee!) I'm using the same technique, but I'm using a lighter, more "swirly" hand with the pencils. I want more of the background to show through, giving it more of a hazy, cloudy look than the dogwood piece. I will be using white acrylic to add sparkles and shimmers once the piece is done, but you can see them starting to take shape. I'm using a white pencil on top of the other colors, which gives it a smoky look. The only thing to watch for here, however, is 'blooming', or when too much wax builds up from the pencils. Once you get some serious blooming, no more color can be applied and you have to try to buff away the slickness. It's a real pain in the neck, trust me.
Anyway, that's a start. Hopefully I'll get to work on them more tonight and maybe get some more scans done once I move on to something other than background.
As some of you know I work almost exclusively with Prismacolor colored pencils and Prismacolor or Copic art markers. I have used watercolors and oils, but I find the ease and simplicity of pencils and markers wonderful. I've been asked to do a colored pencil tutorial in the past, and I tried to do one but I found I work way too erratically to come up with one that made any sense. That said, I'm hoping you can see a little bit of how I use them in the following WIPs.
This piece is "Pink Dogwood" and you can see how I slapped on a base color in the background using Prismacolor marker in Celedon. It provides a nice, flat finish to spread pencils over. I'm using three colored pencils for the shadowing and highlights, while letting a little of the base color shine through. It's a very straighforward technique that with is very easy to execute. Just be sure to keep your pencils sharp!
For this one (I call her Sparkleberry. Hee!) I'm using the same technique, but I'm using a lighter, more "swirly" hand with the pencils. I want more of the background to show through, giving it more of a hazy, cloudy look than the dogwood piece. I will be using white acrylic to add sparkles and shimmers once the piece is done, but you can see them starting to take shape. I'm using a white pencil on top of the other colors, which gives it a smoky look. The only thing to watch for here, however, is 'blooming', or when too much wax builds up from the pencils. Once you get some serious blooming, no more color can be applied and you have to try to buff away the slickness. It's a real pain in the neck, trust me.
Anyway, that's a start. Hopefully I'll get to work on them more tonight and maybe get some more scans done once I move on to something other than background.