Woodland

This quick sketch was drawn on a Wacom Cintiq tablet, as one of the first times I had used it. Having always worked in watercolour, building a drawing from light washes to darker shadows, and finally highlights, drawing straight into the computer, I have found that the computer allows for much more freedom in building a drawing.

However I have found that this freedom can make drawing and colouring more difficult, as the instant choice of any brush size, degree of opacity, texture and colour, when all thrown together, can quickly over-power the image. So I tend to try and restrain the palette, as in this case.

This drawing became the cover of a children's story, set in dis-orientating dense woodland.

PShop and Wacom Cintiq

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