Illustration: arbe automne 01

 

Hopefully, I will do more of this practice work and get some of my painting skills up. This mostly watercolour brushes in Procreate and I hope is looser and more spontaneous looking than my usual stuff. I went to the park for ideas, took some reference photos and want to make a small series just for th hell of doing it. 

Illustration: Dragon 1982

 This was found in a frame somewhere while clearing out my may parent's house. I had forgotten all about it even though I have a pencil drawing with this same dragon in it. Ink with watercolour with chalk pastels (I think). It almost fit in the scanner but not quite exactly. I sometimes wonder what else is out there still that I drew and forgot about. 

Another leaf illustration

 I picked up a couple more leaves, to see if I could paint them in a way you can see they are 2 different leaves but the same type of leaf. They look too flat to me as did the last one. I did add a lot more detail into the veins and tried for more variations in the red of the leaves adding yellows, greens and oranges here and there to keep it from look too monochrome. I also added a background to compliment and accentuate the reds. A step ahead? Maybe I should switch to something else and see how that goes. 

Leaf - watercolour - Affinity photo

 I wanted to go far from my comfort zone with this experiment. I am not really happy with my latest drawings so I tried using the water-colour brushes in Affinity Photo instead of drawing brushes. I didn't really capture the detail of the real leaf. I simply don't have the painting skills for that. I used multiple layers to build up colours and mixed them now and then with a mixing brush so they would bleed into each other more. In short, I really have no idea what I'm doing and thought this might loosen me up more and maybe give me some confidence to move into some areas of art I have been hesitant to try.