Just cause I think a few of you might like something like this, I wanted to show a step by step process of a large painting I've decided to do...please note, I'm not looking for crits on this...
First I started with a 24" x 36 coldpress watercolor board. It's much smoother than coldpress paper, btw. I lightly sketched the design in with pencil, then began to make the clean lines with a micron. If you look closely, you'll see the pencil lines...
After I completed the linework, I began on the head. I use FW liquid acrylics cause they work like watercolor, but are waterproff so I can layer colors without creating a mess. All in all I spent about 3 hours with this section alone, and still not even close... For a painting like this, I begin putting in my "flats" which is the base red color. Then I work in the darker values...I haven't added black yet, fyi
More to come....