Art: Lullaby (G)

[sigune]

Whew! I had to start this picture all over - I inked it with my brush pen and then saw that all sorts of things were wrong with it :P. I redrew it with my Staedtler pens and got a much more pleasing result, also in terms of details.

I know that people like my black-and-white pictures better than the colour ones, but the scene I drew here is a nocturnal one and I thought it would look like a large ink blot if I tried to keep it in b/w. This turned into another experiment, and I'm not displeased with the final result. More important, though, is the question whether mary_j_59 is happy with it, because this was done for her, for snapedom's Summer Fest. It's an illustration of her story All Hallow's Eve.

Title: Lullaby
Artist: sigune
Rating: G
Media: Staedtler pens, Chinese ink and watercolours on cold-pressed watercolour paper.



(Lullaby)

Comments

[death-ofme.livejournal.com]

It's incredibly wrong of me to think only of licking the cut on his face, right?

*stares*

*furiously wipes drool off keyboard*

I like your black and whites best, but I'm beginning to like your colours a heck of a lot too. Look at all that beautiful purple!

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yes, I guess that is rather wrong of you ;P...

I'm so glad you like it! I know I'm not exactly brilliant at colour, but I also know that I'm improving, so I don't think I should stop trying.

Also, and this is a painful reason: it simply takes MUCH less time to cover a large area with paint than it does to cross-hatch it. Inking an A4 takes me two weeks now, when I'm lucky :(. Anyway, my next picture is scheduled to be a black-and-white one, and at least I have learnt to cover large black surfaces with Chinese ink and a brush...

[death-ofme.livejournal.com]

No, don't stop trying! Even if your strengths are still with the darker, cooler colours, I have every confidence you will master the entire spectrum.

Ooh, I love your black and whites when it's brush-inking!

D: omg cross-hatching. Tried a few times, then just never had the patience. Seems so many of my ink drawings have big negative spaces xD