Moar Trek Art

[tripperfunster]

Yay, Yultart is done! Wow, that was a metric fuck-ton of art, over a month's time, and according to the mods, we had a 99% submission rate. How amazing is that?

Anyhoo, I did Kirk/Bones for scatter_muse who requested them in a Myst-like setting.



Click on it to get extreme peen details.

I really struggled with this pic, since it's 90% background, and I don't ROLL THAT WAY. Not to mention it's watercolours, which I'm still pretty damn new at. You have to 'mask off' the areas that you don't want to get paint on, for each layer that you paint, so this had ... six or seven different masking layers. My poor brain! it was hard to figure out what to paint first, and what needed masking first.

I like to draw big, to get lots of detail, so I went out and bought an 18"x24" watercolour pad, just for this. HUGE MOFO IS HUGE! Two feet across and one and a half feet high!!

/blathering

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[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Oh God, I'd be bored out of my tree if I didn't try new things. I love pencils, but it's the SAME TECHNIQUE pretty much every time. And it's painstakingly slow going. Not that watercolours are fast, but it engages a totally different part of the brain. (assuming I have one, of course)

I don't think you'd like shopping with me. Or maybe you would. I get all gooey and moony and dreamy about different pens, and brushes and papers and stuff. I just wander around fondling the merchandise. ;p