Bluetooth headphones going on about low battery and I'm 'ere like "My battery's at zero and I'm still gettin' a bloody shift on so buck yer ideas up!" (Here's some art anyway)
Some concept art for today and possibly a treat for the old guard, a mostly step-by-step process post, complete with excessive annotations! Going to keep this brief as I have to make some lunch (important), then get ready and head off to work, so here's the finished effort to start with...
And now, the work in progress efforts...
The initial rough sketch
Started on the lineart, then switched the canvas colour to black, so I could see the lines for the clouds and waves more clearly.
Lineart done, image cropped...
Returning to the usual canvas colour (working on these nice sandy-coloured backgrounds gives the colours a bit more warmth, which I find very pleasing.)
A little bit of extra colour overlay for the waves, which wound up looking like some trendy bathroom decor from the mid-2010s. After that, I put an extra layer underneath here, slightly turned down the opacity on the watercolour brushes, cranked the water setting and built up a moody wash of slate greyish-blue to finish it. With the clouds, I followed the shapes where I wanted them to be darkest, made a patch of paint, blended the edge nearest to the outside of the cloud to soften it, then went over the darker parts a few times to build up the shading. I figured saving time on shading would compensate for the frankly ludicrous amount of time I spend on lineart...
Anyway, that's it for now, time to go get lunch (tortelloni and grilled courgette - yums!)
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