Yasmina Creates

Ink & Watercolor Illustration: Learn Simple & Magical Techniques & Find Your Style

This is so cute! It makes me want to try to the class :)

Great work! It looks like she is starring at me : )

Thank you, I appreciate your taking the time to encourage me.  I looked at your projects and you are really good.  Must be great fun to be a designer.  Keep up the good work.

Haha, you're awesome, Pamela! He looks a lot more dimensional and alive, yeah the paper really held you back, but you did amazing! :) Watercolors always dry lighter, so it's good to do more than 1 layer, not always, but usually. I'll see you in the other classes! ;)

Aww it's so cute, Pamela! I like how you didn't outline the rock, and you made it look like real fur with the ink. How did you achieve that texture on the rock? The only thing I would add is maybe a second layer on the lion, maybe some brown, a little orange or burgundy. When you use more than one color and they're similar you tend to make your work a lot more beautiful and interesting. Also a slight wash in the background would unify it. Maybe some green for plants or light blue for sky? Just dropping in a tiny bit of color would make him pop more. I made a class on color in watercolor if you want to check it out. Otherwise he's beautiful!! :)

Great ideas to try, appreciate the help.  This was what you suggested in the class, take an older pen and ink and add watercolor.  Unfortunately, this was on cheap Bristol board so it had a mind of it's own.  Was a fun experiment, rocks were a result of that.  Will see what the paper will take.   Thanks again and I will check out both classes.

Ohh that makes sense, still it looks really cool. Almost like ocean waves! It's fun to experiment, isn't it? Yeah, that's why I recommend 140lb paper, even thick bristol paper isn't very good for watercolor. But, you did really well! :) 

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Yasmina, I tried your suggestions and you WERE RIGHT.&nbsp; Needed at least 1 more layer and probably 3.&nbsp; Should have started with better paper.&nbsp; A class on kind critic might be a great class when you run out of other ideas.&nbsp; Be well and make more classes.
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