But wait there's more... colour!

Ice Festival version 2.0

My editor commented that the skin was indeed too orange! So here is another version with a more realistic palette and possibly it works better tonally too. As always with colour: less is more... more or less. Something like that anyway.

Feeding in the colour

Ice Festival

The last image in this series of sketches for my Children's Portfolio. I'm just beginning to feed in the colour with this one. I wanted the purple to harmonise with the blue that I did previously as the two images will probably be seen as a spread.

The yellow/orange was then chosen to vibrate off that- it's too saturated to be a realistic skin tone, but for the sake of a stylised illustration I'm hoping it works =).

Addit: I printed this out today and I'm a little bit chuffed to see it in hard copy- it semed to come out ok I think!

Pencil for Portfolio

A pencil piece for my children's portfolio. Photo referenced with some artistic license, taken at Gorge Rd Wildlife Park in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia.

Post Version 2.0

Ice and Snow


Big Steps


On the Farm

Here are some new pics- two of which are actually old sketches but Scanned and Digitally Remastered (ie coloured in) for the twenty first century.

I am just working in monochrome or two colours at the moment to get a proper digital process going that works for me. Once I get more confident with how brushes behave, and what I can make them do, then I may move on to more full colour pieces.