Onward-045
Mina_Lunga on March 29, 2021
Thank you for the poetry of your comment, ejb! I'm actually being driven slightly insane trying to track the shadows, so despite the reduced color set these pages are taking just as long as full-daylight-colors to do.
The fort is based on a Russian frontier fort from the 1400's; it probably is a bit too wood-centric for the southern lands, but my excuse is that they cleared all of the trees in the area to simultaneously build the fort and make an easily-defended zone.
Dvorle may roll with the punches, but it's Rohr who I think is really getting on top of the situation. Let's just hope Dvorle doesn't carry a grudge, no?
Mina_Lunga at 11:25AM, May 2, 2021
Shadows are indeed hard for me, too, as are situations like this where I am trying to show a sunset. Spike is the perfect tyro.
csudvm at 7:28PM, March 30, 2021
I sense Rohr is a sneaky one. I hope Spike knows to keep an eye on him. Oh but who am I kidding, Spike is naiver (yes that's a word!) than a hayseed. Poor Spike.
ejb at 6:49PM, March 29, 2021
Too much cleverness can get dangerous, I agree. I'm still really digging the color choices. With transparent watercolor, I find managing value to be my ultimate bane. I tend to lay down shadows first, to start locking in light source and form. Of course they look pretty dark against raw paper, but then I move on to midtones of local color. Now my darks seem weak and tonal (sometimes even lighter than the mids.) Time to deepen the shadows and then balance and rebalance and rebalance...