Art: Oh, aching heart! (G if you are European, PG if you are American ;P)

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I was about to give up on this one, really. I worked on it till two in the morning, and the result wasn't at all what I had wished it to be. Urgh. Sleep has become very precious to me, and I wasted it for a lousy picture! The problem was the blacks, which is a bit ... painful ... in a Snape picture. I really don't manage to mix a good black, and I didn't want to use an unmixed one because those always look a bit dull - and a dull black wouldn't have looked good next to Severus's luminous skin. When I finally went to sleep, Snape had blue-purple hair and blue-purple robes. It was a real pity, I thought, because my inks were good - I'd done them with a Faber-Castell brush pen, which I find more manageable than a real brush.

This morning I decided to pull a Marini. Okay, that sounds better than it looks - I'm *far from* a Marini :/. I only mean that I opted for suggesting black in a way that I have picked up from Marini's art for Le Scorpion. I probably did it backwards, though. It's probable that Marini inks first and then adds watercolour; in this case I painted first and added ink afterwards :-).

The result is okay, but I'm not sure it's entirely what it could have been. Maybe I'll end up doing another version...?











I'm still having trouble with my scanner. The white doesn't scan as white, but comes out greyish or yellowish. That's rather a pain when it concerns a watercolour :/.

Also, next time I should probably give some thought to my backgrounds XD.

Comments

[branquignole.livejournal.com]

Oh, Marini... you know, I bought the first Scorpion a while ago (and thank you so much for recommending it!) and the first thing I thought when I saw this painting here, was: That looks Marini-ish!
And I love the different shades of blue and grey you used for the coat and the hair.