Ha! I bet that you totally forgot about my blog… I apparently did. A year and a half of silence would suggest that anyways.
The
illustration below was actually made over one and a half year ago, which could
confirm that I haven’t drawn anything since a looong time. But that’s not true,
I swear. I’ve been just extremely busy with
projects I cannot share with you… yet.
I’ll be
brief (just as a busy person like myself should be).
In the beginning,
I made a few concept sketches. Not real pieces of art, I know. But don’t lose hope:
Outlines drawn in pencil:
Some
details in waterproof ink:
The whole building
and the foreground were masked with masking fluid to protect these areas from
being painted over with very liquid paint (“wet on wet” technique). Mountains were
salted to achieve these textures:
Working on
the sky with watercolor paint mixed with gum arabic. Previously masked areas were
painted slowly and carefully:
Hmmm… looks
almost like the previous step. Maybe I just wasted my time, but I actually added
some extra precise shadows and highlights with ink and dense white watercolor
paint:
