Alice in Wonderland

This week I went down the rabbit hole to visit some friends. I was looking through my sketchbook and found a picture of Alice that I did. So I figured it would be nice to color it. For this piece I used a combination of marker and colored pencils. Here is the finish product:

 To work on this I transferred the sketch on nice paper and used my colored copic multilinears to do the line work. The colored pens used was sepia and green. I've always found sepia to be a much more natural color when doing line art, so it's one of my often used pens.

 I started laying down the base color for Alice.

 Alice is mostly done.

Working on the mushroom.

With the base all layed down, I used colored pencils to finish it up, and add details.

Rinse and repeat.

The grass was really fun to do. The grass further back it a bit darker. I was trying to be mindful of atmospheric perspective. The further back you go, the more dull and blueish objects become. That's why I didn't ink the grass further back.

Laid down the base coat for the ground. I darkened some areas of where shadows would be.

Ground is finish!

Here are some close up shots:

That's it.

Mediums: Copic markers, Faber Castell Polychromos, a bit of white gel pen
Paper: 8.5x5.5in Strathmore Bristol Vellum

I've always found Alice to be an endearing character. What character(s) (book, movie, etc) do you find endearing?

Watercolor Faeries

Here are some of the pictures I've done in watercolor. These pictures are faeries. One of the oldest accounts of stories about them stated they were near indistinguishable from humans. I like to work upon that instead of always just drawing them with various insect wings.

Fae Child:

A Magic Touch:

These were done on Strathmore 300 series watercolor paper.

About Time

Hello everyone!

My name is Katy Lamatsch, and after months of debating I finally caved and made myself an art blog. A little about myself; I am 22 years old and I've always loved art since I could hold a pencil. Though I do dabble in a little digital art, my preferred is traditional. I will be posting my finish works, but also some process shots as well.

Anyway, I figured I'll start my first post with a bang. Here is a picture of a harpy that I finished the other day. For the design I looked at various photos of hawks and falcons.

When creating this piece I used Copic markers with a little colored pencils for the final details. Here's the line art.

For base of the body I used E41, E81, and E42.

For the wings I used E37, E77, and E47.

 Using the same colors I used for the wing, I started adding the patterns.

 I only used one color for the hair, E87.

 With the skin I gave it a base coat of the colorless blender, and then started the the deepest shadow, BV20. After that I just messed around with some more skin colors until I was happy with the result. The main colors for the skin is E31, E50, E51, and a hint of R12 for blush.

 Working on the moon. Based coat is YR30. I wanted the moon to be yellow/orange color, so I just added some colors where necessary. The darkest shadow has some BV20.

 I darkened her feathers more with YG91(One of my favorite shading colors to use), and then I went in with some colored pencils to darken it further.

 

Close ups:

And I'm done!

I hope you guys enjoyed that. It feels great having a blog, and I do plan on updating. :)

Questions for you:

What mythological creatures do you find interesting?