north waters
I absolutely love what I learned in this class! Thank you so much, Brooke! I can't wait to experiment with a few other water colors and learn more. I am about 3 weeks in on procreate and I have taken this class and your procreate for beginners and I have learned a lot.
My inspiration was fish (and loon) of Lake Superior. I am part of a group advocating for the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness and Lake Superior. We are working to protect it from a foreign copper mine, so my heart is interested in this kind of a theme.
For my watercolor I used google to help me learn more about some of the fish of the area.
I took a picture of the watercolor with my ipad.
I used procreate masking to erase the background.
Then the magic happens! Wow, you can put things on individual layers and dink to your delight. I moved and changed the sized of some things. I added more small fishies. I put in lots of details in different ways. Sometimes I did color drop, sometimes I used soft airbrush with low saturation. I played with the hue, brightness and saturation and blending layers. One great brush I used was "aurora" under artistic to get some spots on the salmon in the lower right corner.
I made my own color washes to get more of a flowy water look for the lake and then I color dropped to get the vibrant rich blue.
Thanks again, Brook. I love watercolor, so this will be so fun to combine the two.
