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.
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