Mermaid finished

The sketch I posted the other day is colored:

Pencil and watercolor in an A5 Canson sketchbook.
There was a storm here so I had to turn off my computer, and then I used my time to draw. I did some more things in my sketchbooks, but they were mostly fails so I decided not to share them here. I felt like today wasn't my day. I even messed up the mermaids eyes in the very end. Oh well.

An illustration I completely forgot to post

This was a secret project so I wasn't allowed to post it right away, and when I could I didn't remember to do it. It was a free (pro bono) rush work so it's very rough. Most of the details got lost in the budget print so I didn't bother painting details in the background, just the main character and a hinting of the monsters.

Characters include Davor Šišović, the central figure of the book and the recipient of this unusual gift, the giant Veli Jože, vampire Jure Grando and a female supernatural creature that could be a Mora (nightmare), or a štriga (witch).

You can see the footage of the guerrilla book presentation here.

Watercolor flowers

I'm a newbie in watercolor so here is a bit of practice. I used photos from the book "The Agile Rabbit Picture Atlas of Flowers" as reference. As you can see the first two are pretty crappy, but the rest is OK I think. Too bad the rose didn't scan properly, it looks very delicate in person.

Sakura Koi pan watercolors, Maimeri Venezia tubed watercolors, Pentel Aquash waterbrushes and regular brushes on A4 paper.

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 Burnt sienna on the skin and hair, roughing in the net with Chinese white and Ivory black watercolor.
7. More shadows on the skin with Ivory black, a 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.

Click to see the finished Metamorphosis painting in my gallery

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.