April 23 – Announcement

Don’t worry, I’ll likely still do weekly updates, but I need some time to focus on comics. Thanks for understanding!

-Beth

April 19 – Cheat Doodle

Because I was out of time, but I really, really felt like I needed to draw and post something. Not for any reason other than I needed to create something. 🙂

April 18 – WIP aka will I ever finish this?

I’m determined to finish this piece and given my current pace, it’ll probably be this weekend. Then next week I will likely be changing things up a bit.

April 17 – Still More WIP

I didn’t get to work on it at all last night, but this morning I got to work on it for a few minutes before I had to leave for work. I think that except for finishing touches and the initial water soluble graphite, I will stick with only using tubes and pans of watercolours. I’ll see what I can get done tonight.

April 16 – WIP (Continued)

So this is a continuation of yesterday’s WIP. I found a matching tube of watercolour paint. It’s always amazing how far a little dab of paint will go. I still have left over paint! Anyway, I think I will be learning a different lesson now. One that’s hard for me and that’s patience. I used the paint to try to layer in a different stroke to give the feel of grass and trees growing in an upward direction. I didn’t saturate the entire page because I am working semi-transparently without physical masking (aka using frisket, masking tape, or wax). This may not be the smartest way and I may be making things difficult for myself but…

April 15a – WIP

For the next couple of weeks, I’m going to try to change my format slightly. I want to work more with layered watercolours and blocking out sections of colour. The only issue is that I want to saturate the paper and then let it dry. This is something that I can’t do first thing in the morning before work because I don’t have time to let it dry. As a result, I’m going to start posting the progress as I paint instead. I have time to work this way for the next little while until my schedule changes.

Today’s experiment with trying to use watercolour crayons to block out large colour sections did not go as planned. I may need to buy a lighter green watercolour block or see if I have a tube of light green somewhere…

April 15 – Shambling Corporate Mound

It’s more finished now, I would work more on it, but I think I would touch it up digitally if I were to continue.

April 12 AM – WIP

Today I needed to break the rules. I will finish this up either tonight or over the weekend but I couldn’t just rush this one. What exactly is this you might ask? This would be a corporate shambling mound.

April 11 – Squirrelock

I’ll bet you think that I didn’t create anything yesterday, didn’t you? Nope! I goofed and forgot to post the sketch! Here is Mister Squirrelock himself!

April 10 – Castle?

This was another painting failure. I’ve tried cropping it, but there is just no fixing it. Yes, there was supposed to be a castle in the picture, but it also wasn’t working so you get what I have here.