Some of you may remember the Art Order challenge about the Bromide race. Well, I've actually had a bit of free time lately and I started working on a color illustration based on the initial graphite sketch, which can be found here. I'm using mainly gouache with a bit of watercolor on hot pressed watercolor paper.
This is a few hours into the painting:
And this is after a few more:
I'm only working on this in between other obligations, so progress is slow. I hope to have this completed before the deadline of the "Best of Art Order" book submission deadline in January. Read more about that here.
5 comments:
What you can make gouache do is nothing short of amazing!
Thanks, Christine! Gouache is awesome. I'm surprised more illustrators don't use it much anymore. I suppose digital painting has a bit to do with it. I'm still working on getting comfortable painting in Photoshop.
Wonderful rendering and color usage as always, Kim! Truly, and seeing this I should really kick my arse into gear and finish off a submission for Jon as well! So, I suppose inspirational should also be added to your growing accolades... ;)
Wow Kim! This looks really promising!
I remember your sketch and it was really nice by itself, but the new more dynamic pose and all the beautiful colors are pushing the character to a much higher level.
Can`t wait to see the final!
Mu: I appreciate your comments, as always! I'll be looking out for your submission, you better get it in gear :)
Mo: Thanks so much! I really enjoyed working on the original sketch and I had always intended to do a color rendering. I think it would be pretty neat to create a whole world around this guy.
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