he thought he found an answer

With experimenting I wanted to see how I could take it to the next level. I started out by painting a few oval shapes which consisted of various colours within each one. When I had created these oval shapes I wanted see how things would turn out if I added some ink on top of the watercolour...





...Once the ovals were dry I started to add my pen to the green card I had painted on. I chose the green card as well to see what would happen to the colour of the watercolours. I had to make the paint quite thick so it would appear more opaque than if I applied a lot of water and not enough paint. Even though in some parts you can see the green background coming through, there are still parts with block colour. I really like this effect! I really enjoyed creating the background to my illustration first and then adding the line work on top. It was definitely something different to what I'm used to and can see this as a way of definitely improving my illustrations...



...With all that that in mind I then went on to create some more characters with watercolours and a pen. This was one that in my eyes turned out quite well. I had to think a little before I created the coloured background. Like where I was going to position the nose and the ears (I didn't think too much about the eyes and the lips, I just went with it) because I wanted to used various colours to differentiate those parts before adding the linework. I realized after that I could've done this the other way round as I could've used a water proof pen, but like I said within using this technique I could really improve my illustration style and start creating some interesting stuff.