Romica Jones

Gouache for Illustrators - BONUS CONTENT: Feathers, Scales and Eyes

Thank you for sharing your project, Judith. I really love how you used the feather technique and applied it to a mythical creature. I also enjoy the various textures you created with the more translucent paint background and the drawn outlines. The colours are harmonious and overall it's a pleasing image, well done. I was just wondering if the white outline around the character was intentional? I actually like it. It gives the piece a nice contrast. But just in case it wasn't intentional and you just maybe didn't want to smudge your main painting with the background wash, I would suggest using a finer/smaller brush to carefully paint around the edges and work outwards. Best to do that when the main painting has dried fully and to maybe use less water closer to the main painting. Another idea would be a bit more collage-like by painting the background and main character on completely separate pieces of paper and to then cut out the character and stick it on the background if that makes sense. I'm just coming up with ideas here. Hope you find them helpful and if not just disregard them. Again well, done and thank you for sharing your paintings :) Romica

I have made a crow but I have to improve the feathers and an amabie, a magical creature of the Japanese folklore that is suppose to protect from diseases.&nbsp;
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