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Yesterday’s warmup: An ATC-size mini-painting using the ancient pigments. This particular paper (Strathmore cold press watercolor artist cards) started feathering at the underpainting, so I didn’t try too much layering or detail, but I’m getting better at understanding how each individual pigment wants to be coddled.
I used all the pigments except the lapis lazuli blue. I’ll save that for a fancier piece 🙂
Do not drink your brush-washing water, Klio.
Here’s a quick, miniature (about 1.5x2in.) sketch of Otho, who was one of the brief hopefuls during the Year of the Four Emperors. All I know about the details of his appearance (beyond the statues, I mean) is that he was short, said to be vain, and was overly concerned about depilatories. Poor Otho. He lasted exactly three months. Left behind some nice-looking statues, though.
finished version:
in progress:
Otho gets three months and three panels:
The squarish beige test swatch of paint in the middle of the paper is a handmade paint I’ve been playing with to get the right skin tone for any future Iustas. She’s a little on the washed-out side in this piece 😀
Materials used: Sakura Pigma Micron 005 pen; Sennelier (Phthalo Blue, Yellow Lake, Rose Madder Lake), M. Graham (Azo Green), Holbein (Mars Yellow), and Kuretake Gansai Tambi (Orange) watercolours; on Fluid 100, 100%-cotton cold press paper (I have a big crush on this paper at the moment); using a Mimik #2 Round brush that is meant to mimic a squirrel-hair brush at about a third the price (so far, so good, and I’m not afraid to use it, as I am with my one-and-only Kolinsky sable brush–10x the cost of the Mimik).
My warmup sketches today turned into a full journal comic like I used to do–daily!–years and years ago. I stopped doing journal/memoir comics so much because 1) it’s awkward when you’re drawing about people you know, who’ll know it’s about them, and 2) a few too many people were nodding sagely at the comics and saying, “Ah, yes, now I see why you’re the way you are…” I should go back to writing about the angst of fictional, semi-fictional, and millennia-gone historical people!
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