Bramble Bird in color

[darkwaterfrey]

Comments

[radiumhead]

1.Awesome!!! Is that photoshop coloring?

2.Can you recommend any good brushes or pens? I dont like the old fashioned ones where you dip it in the ink, it seems messy. But the store brush/pens I use, (tombo-art) the point gets mushy way too fast. Micron pens also seem to be kind of shitty.

[darkwaterfrey]

1) Thanks! NO, that is 100% hand applied watercolor.

2) Yes I could, but I use the old-fashioned kind. For nibs I like the "G" nib, and for brushes I use Raphael (8394 Kaerell) #4 and #3. For watercolors I use a whole bunch of different beat up student grade brushes. The reason I use the old-school stuff is because the "marker" and Brush-pens seem to dry-out or lose their fine line point pretty quickly.

[r_dart]

Don't you just love it when someone thinks your hand-crafted work is photoshop? It always gives me a little tickle.

[jabberworks]

Oo, very dramatic! :D

[darkwaterfrey]

Thanks, I wanted to try something different with my colours.

[sersugg]

That came out spectacularly! I was also wondering: watercolor or digital?

[darkwaterfrey]

Thanks man! Watercolor all the way, I can barely use photoshop.

[sersugg]

Excuse me while I pick my jaw off the floor.
That is amazing control of the medium you have there. Are you using pigments (the tubes) or dyes (concentrated watercolors, the ones that come in the little bottles with the medicine droppers)?

[darkwaterfrey]

I use Windsor Newton Cotman watercolour tubes, along with some student grade watercolor tubes and White Gouache for hi-lights.

I've never used the dyes--although that's exactly what the comic-book industry used to color pages before Digital colors became the industry standard.

[mr_esty]

Lovely!

[darkwaterfrey]

Thank you sir!

[craqued]

RAD COLORS and the lighting, especially in the tree with the owl, is awesome

[darkwaterfrey]

Thanks, I'm glad that color combo worked out okay, I was a little worried at first.