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Jays with Fence - Digital Watercolour in Progress - Part Three


 
Jays with Fence WIP Illustration No. 7
 
Composing a digital watercolour Jays in the Field...Jays with Fence Part Three
 
I'm not actually composing this anymore, but it links to the prior two posts, Part One , and Part Two
These are the steps and brushes I used to paint the birds. The top bird is on two layers at present (aside from Sketch and Value Layer which will be deleted). The Digital Watercolour (DWC) layer and a Watercolour (WC) layer.
  • beak and eyes were done with a Fine Point Black Pen on the Gel DWC layer
  • the head feathers were done with a Fine Tip DWC squeezed and angled a bit.
  • the back feathers were done with a DWC real tapered watercolour on the base layer
  • used a DWC diffuser to soften edges
  • used a little bit of Skip's Soft Water Bleeder to contour the back feathers a bit around the edges
  
Jays with Fence WIP Illustration No. 8
 
  • used DWC Fine tip again to do this part of the wing. 
 
Jays with Fence WIP Illustration No. 9
 
This part was tricky to figure out because I knew a solid opaque colour such as that produced by the fine tip water wouldn't let me vary the amount of paint on the darker areas between the feathers. The challenge for you folks is to think of a few ways I could do this to see if you are learning anything hah! hah! I gave it away in the illustration.
  • used the Gel Wash/Wet Blender technique  with John Derry's brushes described in other posts (so often).  
  • used a gradient that I custom made ( I'll do a tutorial on that soon when I figure out how I did it again lol! A two point gradient would have worked too.
  • I like the way the Wet Blender can vary the paint when used on top of the Gel Wash.It takes a few swipes of practice sometimes. Go slowly and if you don't like the last stroke you made undo it (ctrl Z) and keep going until it looks the way you want.

Posted in Miscellaneous. Updated March 17th, 2010. 2 comments so far. Share on StumbleUpon or Del.icio.us, or Digg this post.

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Jo WOods said:

Wow, that makes perfect sense to me dude.

jess
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Wednesday, March 17th

Joan said:

Hi Jo/jess Hope you're not being facetious! :) If you have any questions and you want to ask them privately, ask me to contact you with my other email address. Then we can correspond privately if you wish!
Thanks for your comment!
Joan

Wednesday, March 17th

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