Final Project: All Done!

December 8th, 2013.  8:00-11:19PM

My final project is all finished.  I now have three watercolor illustrations for The Snow Queen and an accompanying narrative mounted on bristol board!

This took a little longer than I thought, but it was fun enough that I didn't mind.  I am not an expert watercolor artist but I am reasonable happy with the way these look and I feel like I've become a little more practiced in this media.

I had been considering inking the drawings as some of the colors were mucky or washed out.  But I really didn't want to to that, so I compromised and outlined certain parts of the drawings using an old, almost dried up Copic liner.  It looks great this way, because the colors don't look too flat against the ink.

The only thing that slightly bothers me is my short "adaptation" of the story, because I had to fit it into a small space and so it is very quick and doesn't totally capture the spirit of it.  And some of the grammar is off because of the permanence of ink.

Overall I think it looks pretty nice.

End Of Class Update

So far, I have everything sketched, and one square is completely watercolored.  Over the weekend, I need to finish coloring and most likely go over everything with ink so it looks less washed out.  I think it will be awesome. Yeah! Party on! And by party I mean watercolor, because I do not go to parties.

December 4th, 2013.  8:35 AM.

Quick little update before I start working for today.

Last night I worked from 11:00 to 1:00 getting a couple of the sketches done.  Its amazing how long it can take to figure out exactly what an illustration should look like, especially one so small.  But I still think I can do it.

So today in class I think I will finish the sketches, or just watercolor the ones I have, then deal with whatever is left over the weekend.  It should not be too much.

Final Project Update

December 2, 2013.  10:54 AM.

So, I have decided to draw and watercolor 3-5 illustrations for The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen.

Right now I have read the story and have decided on a few scenes to do.  I've also made some sketches of the characters.  I'm going to prep some sketches before class on Wednesday because I didn't do quite as much in class today as I would have liked.