MIXED MEDIA: WATERCOLOUR AND DIGITAL ART

My last post was my participation in Bloggers Art Gallery . Today on the blog, we have another post about my art. More specifically, it's about digital art. While I was browsing through my old blog posts, I came across some of my old mixed print sketches that I made back in 2013 and 2014. I've been exploring digital art, so I decided to colour these watercolour sketches digitally. How did I do it? I used Paint 3D program to colour them. Do you want to see how it is done? Scroll down to see my art process and work in progress collages. In case anyone is interesting in purchasing any of my art, you can buy most of my illustrations and paintings here: IvanaKada.redbubble.com

A BLUE LADY IN A MAGICAL FOREST 

This painting of a blue lady was originally a sketch made with a ballpoint pen on a random piece of paper with some watercolour added. Before I got better (still not perfect) as organizing my time for art, I used to sketch a lot. I'm so glad I did because sketching can be food for our creative mind. Anyhow, I decided to add some colour to this painting.  Above you can see the beginning of the art process. As you can see, the first thing I did was work on the eyes. I wasn't happy with the eyes, I wanted them to be more expressive. I worked on them until I was finally happy. 

ADDING LAYERS OF COLOURS GRADUALLY TO CREATE THE DESIRED EFFECT 

Once I was done with the eyes, then I moved onto skin, lips and  hair. I used various colours for the skin. I wanted to retain the original idea behind the sketch and that was a lady with blue skin (and eyes and hair), so I added more blue around the ages. For skin colouring that followed, I used mostly orange and pink. I keep adding touches of blue to retain that blueness. It was a bit tricky, but I think I pulled it off. The lips were easy to do. I just corrected the shape and coloured them. In my illustrations they were uneven. I didn't correct the nose, just added more colour because the long nose is kind of my style. When it comes to hair, I added different colours such as different shades of blue, red and even purple. I'm pretty happy with how that turned out. The last phase of the process was the background. I wanted the background to look magical, something like an enchanted forest. I'm pretty sure my original inspiration for this sketch was Slavic folklore so that explains it quite nicely. I'm very much fascinated with fairy creatures in Slavic mythology. 

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A SMILING WINGED ANGEL

This watercolour sketch is quite old. I didn't do a lot of digital colouring for this one, I just added some colour  here and there, mostly to the wings and the background. I remember that I wanted to sketch someone smiling and that is how this watercolour sketch was made. I believe the inspiration for it was a smiling photograph of Garance Dore. When I saw it, I pondered- why should not I sketch someone smiling? If I remember correctly, the wings were really an afterthough. I wasn't going for anyone in particular, I just watched to paint a smiling lady. I only added the wings and decided it was an angel later on. This illustration is also available in a form of about 70 products via Redbubble. 

FASHION ILLUSTRATION FROM MY INSPIRED BY FEATURE

This watercolour and ballpoint sketch is from way back. Here I illustrated a fellow blogger from Tie Bow-Tie blog . The original sketch was a mixed media, as I just wrote. Bellow you can see how I played with adding colour to this illustration digitally. Not sure about this one, though.

Thank you for reading and visiting. Let me know what you think about digital art. Have you ever tried it? Do you like it? Have a lovely day. Keep safe and take care.