Watercolours galore!

[belphegor1982]

My  mum had given me a box of watercolour pencils for my birthday last year, and till now I can't say I've used them a lot - but I suddenly got "inspired" and tried my hand at doodling a bit and afterwards run a wet brush over them.

...They aren't too shabby, I guess, but I'm not really there yet :P

First try, with an anonymous lady I jotted down in a few minutes.


I kinda like this one. Blue's one of my favourite colours anyway, but for a 5-minutes doodle it didn't turn out so bad. Which is more than I can say for this one...


Yep, DCAU!Piper! Without his hat - sorry, love, I forgot once I started colouring. Anyway. The top one's the pencil, and the bottom one was scanned after I ran a wet brush on everything. Not really completely happy with that one. Plus the paper was too thin. So I grabbed a thick Canson sheet and did this.



Comics!James and Wally - without reference, and poor James' eyes suffered to be this close to his mask. And I need to work on reds :P But I love the colours those pencils get when wet. And I love to add little shades to faces with just a smidgen of colour and a lot of water :o)

Since I still had some time before dinner, I continued with this (right click and "display image"):



Some anonymous characters, each with a different central colour (although they've all got different shades of that colour, except for the black and white kid, where I only used black pencil). Still doodling around for fun and practice. The green lady's eyes are off and the blonde lady just looks weird, but hey, no-one ever said progress was quick :P (Oh, and the black-and-white kid is out of focus - but I least I can blame that on the fact that it's hard to scan a drawing out of a thick sketch book :D)

That's all for now, folks :o)

In other news, it's so darn hot here - the heat's gone up to 40°C today, and now it won't go lower than 25°C at 11PM (that's 104° and 77°F for you Farenheit people)... How on Earth will I be able to sleep tonight is beyond me :S It's especially weird because not four or five days ago, we got temperatures lower than 10°C in the morning (50°F)... Okay, Mark, not funny, dude - stop messing with the climate! ;o)

Comments

[liabrown]

40!! Are we going to have another repeat of all those elderly people dying from the heat in Paris? :( I thought those kinds of temperatures were an anomaly in France, and that's why nobody is prepared for it with A/C and the like. Climate change has really screwed us :\

Well, stay cool if you can. I used to keep a small fan on my bed and sleep with it right next to me when we lived at the old house (aka the Furnace Townhouse). Love the drawings :)

[belphegor1982.livejournal.com]

Oh, it wasn't only in Paris in 2003 - but here in the South (West) we were better prepared than in the North. They didn't have the sense to close the shutters on windows facing west before it got too hot, for Pete's sake! That, and they didn't insist enough to make people (especially the elderly) drink enough water often enough. Really, 40° in the afternoon is not the worst - the worst is the temperatures not going under 20° in the night. Hate to make that pun, but I reckon we've got a heat wave problem :D

It is an anomaly, but an anomaly that's been repeating itself over the past few years. I don't have A/C, and I don't want to - it's as far from ecological as you get, and there are other ways of keeping a house cool. Plus, we can always nip over to the cinema or something :o)

[jason-register.livejournal.com]

I really like your stuff... do you by chance have a Deviant Art account?

[belphegor1982.livejournal.com]

Indeed I do :o) It's right here: http://the-french-belphegor.deviantart.com/ Got a Scraps section too, where I put stuff I don't feel belong to the front page :D

[jason-register.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I have deviant watched you. =D