2nd 20 by 30

For my second 20 by 30 watercolor, I decided to paint another landscape, a sunset! I've always wanted to paint a pretty sunset in watercolor/paint. This time, it was less difficult, because I knew what I was going to expect. I made the watercolor less runny and waited for it to dry, before I would paint over a section. I took my time this time around. It turned out very colorful, because I had to get every accent of color, purple, blue, magenta, yellow, etc. For the water, I painted in bits to create a neat reflection for the water. I like it, I really love all of the colors.

Product

I wanted to paint a pretzel, I thought it would be interesting. Who knew that it would be such a pain to mix so many different shades of brown? Whoops. This took about 5 hours to finish. I actually free-handed the pretzel, that's why some parts are a little odd looking. Aside from the amount of time to finish, I actually enjoyed this project, because it helped me improve my watercoloring abilities. I'm just glad that it ended up looking like a pretzel.

5 Digital with line art

I decided to do simple line art pieces with color. Since I'm not the best at using the wacom tablet, I stuck with simple images. They look like pages off of a coloring book. I really like the bunny in the hot air balloon. Once I started getting the hang of using the pen, I stopped using the mouse to click on things, which was really nice.

Landscape watercolor

This was my first landscape watercolor. I just typed in landscape in the search bar on flickr and found this cottage in the woods. I think it was like the first time using watercolor on a huge sheet of paper, so it was very difficult to handle the watercolor on such a large space. I wish I made the sunset/sunrise better, blended in more colors. I wish the trees were more defined and the foreground looked better.

Self Portraits

Here are my 5 Watercolor Self Portraits with Line Art. I took pictures and printed them out and transferred it on a 7x7 piece of watercolor paper using the Lucy. I feel like they could have looked better, because I was just rushing to finish them at 2am. I like the perspective of the one where my top is purple, it is my favorite. On the one where I'm looking forward with my glasses, I messed up on the face, black got in the cream color, so it made my chin dark, so I had to go over it over and over again with the cream color. Overall, I think it was a good attempt.

5 Wacom Sketches

We had to do 5 sketches digitally on the Wacom Tablet. I'm starting to get used to it, but it's annoying when I keep pressing the button on the pen and the little menu pops up every time. I forget to change the brush size and stroke, because I was in a hurry to just get them done, I didn't want to mess with them. I only changed the stroke and size of the brush on the tree sketch, which is the one I like the best. The koala bear was the first one I sketched, so it's not good. It looks like it has bangs which was suppose to be its darker fur or shadow. I traced all of these images.

Memory Portrait

So I hate doing portraits of people. They never turn out to look like who they're suppose to. So having to draw somebody from memory just this assignment terrifying for me. I decided to draw my best friend from back home in St. Louis, Stephania. This does not look like her, the only thing I got right was her blonde hair. Her head turned out smaller than her upper body and I made her hair look too heavy.