Cwtam - Nelchee's sketchblog

Complete Metamorphosis work-in-progress

Finally finished! :) I'm pretty much satisfied, though I'm not sure I'll use watercolor in this exact manner again.

1. Pencil sketch
2. Pen & ink line-art
3. Light ink wash on the skin, painted wings and exposed flesh in watercolor (Ivory black and Crimson).
4. Painted the background in several layers of watercolor (Ultramarine, Pthalo green, Raw umber).
5. More layers of Ultramarine on the background.
6. Washes of Burns sienna on the skin and hair, roughing in the net with Chinese white watercolor.
7. More shadows on the skin with Ivory black, light wash of Raw umber + Quinacridone Magenta. Added the veins on wings with Ivory black, and all the detailing on the net with Titanium white acrylic paint.

Finished painting:

Watercolor, ink and acrylic on 35x50cm watercolor paper. I don't know how many hours, but only the last step took 6 hours, so you do the math.

Metamorphosis WIP 3

I have neglected it a bit, and still I'm not done, but it's 2 A.M... *yawn*

I don't know what to do with the skin, if anything. Skin tones done with diluted acrylic on Animus look so much better.

Nude sketches

I did some 1-minute gesture sketches using the Figure Drawing Training Tool, and another one that took maybe 5 minutes. The nude in grayscale was done some time ago but I forgot to post it here.

And these are some face sketches I did in a pub today after 3 beers, tee hee :P

Yet another demon winged chick

Ink lineart of a new piece I'm working on... there are more details on the drawing but the pencils can't be seen because it's a poor quality photo.

This is a rework of a really old, crappy sketch I did in 2005 that you can see here. I changed the concept drastically, but at least she still has wings, heh..

Friends' figures

I have two friends who are into martial arts (and are ninjas in training :D), I referenced this from their Facebook photos.
The lady at the bottom is referenced from Bouguereau's "Bathers".

Sketching pencils on toned paper.