Bluebird: Final

Black Crowned Crane: Final

Crab

I got back from vacation at about 10:30 tonight. This is a birthday card I did for my mom(she's a cancer.)

Owls

Father's Day card.

Goblin

This goblin desperately wants to be human hence his somewhat ridiculous totally awesome style choices.

Steampunk Burlesque

Once upon a time way back senior year at MICA my friends and I created a prompt blog which sort of dissolved as we reached the end of the year and everyone was really stressed out about finals/graduation stuff. My greatest regret from that blog was never finishing one of the final prompts: burlesque. I quickly sketched a steampunk themed burlesque dancer(because those two things obviously need to go together) but I never finished the final color version.

The hardest part in getting to the final watercolor and gouache version was finding a way to get my very detailed sketch onto the watercolor paper. It was impossible to see everything when I attempted to lightbox the sketch. So I ended up printing the sketch on to light weight watercolor paper. This time I printed the image the night before I started painting which made the ink run less. 

And, yes, those are gear shaped nipple pasties.

Girl with Two Birds

A very Mucha/Art Nouveau inspired design. Watercolor with gouache(now in multiple colors)outlines. This piece was also somewhat of an experiment for me as instead of lightboxing my sketch onto the watercolor paper(a tedious process) I scanned the lines and printed them, very lightly on the paper. It seemed to work pretty well, though the ink did run a bit in places where I put the watercolor on really wet. But that was only obvious on really light parts like the skin tone and once I put the outlines on I couldn't tell at all. I think the process worked pretty well for this piece. I am curious to see how it would work on heavier paper or a more complicated image.

Bird with Five Chicks

For my mom's mother's day card.  Watercolor with gouache outlines again.

Queen

This lady is clearly a ruler somewhere. The image in from my sketchbook done in watercolor and outlined in gouache. You may notice a similarity between her outfit and that of the Queen of Hearts from the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland(the animated one) cause that's what I was thinking of when I colored it.