A Stag (for Scholastic)

[ahoteinrun]

http://www.geocities.com/mydogrunsfast/scholasticsstag.jpg

The second links bigger. Photobuckets hateful. If it dies... because of overviews (which it probably won't)

It almost killed me. But I did it.

Stag. Watercolors. Complete. Yay... *slumps* so many hours of work... ugh... i'm so lazy now...

Anywho. I hope you like it Scholastic. As well, done in watercolors, on paper (should've bought better paper, but i'm flat out broke, least it's watercolor paper!), umm... about 15 hours of work. *nods* Yup. Scan destroyed part of the detail/borders. Too big for my scanner. Heh. whoops. Should've planned that better. Not sure how I feel about it personally but ah well. It was an interesting foray into watercolors.

[Fiddelysquat]

You never cease to amaze me. Even with flat colors, you manage to portray depth, and it's just... Wow. Watercolors are so hard to control, and I suck so bad with them that seeing this, I appreciate how skilled you'd have to be to make it.

[kuroro]

I love the nice green tones all around. The painting has something stylish. Hmm.. I can't find the correct word.

If I scan my watercolors, most of the time, a lot of tones get killed by the scanner. Maybe I should lookout for another one.. *sigh*

[ahoteinrun]

I love the nice green tones all around. The painting has something stylish. Hmm.. I can't find the correct word.

If I scan my watercolors, most of the time, a lot of tones get killed by the scanner. Maybe I should lookout for another one.. *sigh*

I played majorly with the levels in Photoshop to get it to where it basically "should" be. The tones are still a bit muted in comparison. But I pushed the grey/black levels, and then I took down the saturation of the colors a bit (because the yellows/greens were like... neon bright, which they're not), and I also took down the hue a couple notches. Basically I just held the watercolor up to my computer screen and did comparison until it basically fit to what it should be.
I hate scanning watercolors too!

And thankyou. I think it became overly influenced by my tribal drawings, and by a fox painting I did a couple years ago.

Fidds: I find that with watercolors, all you really need is patience. I think a problem a lot of people have with them is the fact that they don't wait long enough for the paper to dry. Fortunately, where I live it's SUPER dry in the air, and thusly, paper dries quick so I don't have to be too patient. Mwaha

[stinkyllama]

Pretty!! Your work always looks awesome.

I extra-extra-admire you for doing it so well with watercolors (especially since I'm way outta control with them).