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Out of the void

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Digital art's been giving me a bit of a headache recently (quite literally) so I decided to give some traditional art a go, and as a result I have fallen in love with watercolours (and salt)

I looked at a few tutorials before I began, because I was well aware after doing the lineart that out of all my characters, this one is the worst to do tradtionally. She's black, she glows, she's got transparent wings and more apendages than you can shake a stick at. But nevertheless I'm very proud of how this came out, especially those asteroids, for some reason they came out really well.

I am aware that she's white instead of black, but after doing the first two coats I realised that I'd done it too light, but I quite liked how she looked, so I kept her like that in the end. It reminds me of when I was talking to *Keberyna about errors being like mutations in character development, and it seems this time she's become an albino, she's even got pink eyes ;P

The planet I'm not too happy with, neither am I happy with the markings or her wing membranes, but I think I have a better idea of what to do now, so next time I should be able to get it right.

I just realised I've got this far without telling you which character this is, it's Soleara, in case you couldn't tell (which isn't that implausible, given that last time I drew her she was black and in a position that covered most of herself with her wings, so it was very hard to see. Here's the last image I drew of her, if you're interested in comparing. [link]

I'm running out of things to say here, so I'll just ask for some advice on using paints in general, if anyone has any tips or knows where I've made a mistake I'd really like to know, I want to get my traditional stuff up to the level of my best digital stuff, so any advice, critique, or even just random words of wisdom would be much appreciated.

Biocras dragons (c) *DragonsFlameMagic
Soleara (c) Me
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StudioGhibliRocks's avatar
oh wow, this is great! The glowing effect looks awesome! I love the detail on her head too. :D