Front cover I can't remember where I first came across Blurb.com (I know it was in one of the thousands of blog posts I read about all things creative) and it is not the first site to try to tap into the growing market of people sinking in seas of digital files, but it was the first I have looked at in a while with a really simple web interface...
Re-reading Charles Vess' walkthru of his gorgeous illustration: Fairy Procession (which happens to be in his excellent book - Drawing Down the Moon... gorgeous, gorgeous illustrations!) I was happy to read he suffers from the same fears I do of that first step in the colouring process. I have been summoning the courage to put some colour down on...
I have to admit, I was very much just going through the motions adding the yellow layer today. I only mixed up three or four different value ranges and slapped them down pretty quickly just to see if an magic happened. I wasn't expecting a lot. But I was pleasantly surprised with the result. Yes, it is a smudged mess and the colours are wrong in...
ok... sealing my watercolour layers is not working. I probably should have expected problems given the matte medium I am using is water-based. Sure enough, my magenta layer is just running and smudging when I try to seal it. Where to from here? I am researching whether there are other sealers I can use that will still allow me to paint over the top...
Finally found some time to get back to Maxfield. So far I have printed out the cyan plate on my el-cheapo Canon printer (using some nice thick watercolour stock). Unfortunately, when sealing it with the matte medium the ink ran a little but that's not too important at this stage. I'm not so fussed about details as I am about the colours. In the...
Quick colour comps in Photoshop. A very rough guide only. I have never been slavish to these things......
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