Randomnerd
Bimbleur
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- North Yorkshire
These are great! All three.Never had an artistic bone in my body, but by some fluke a video ended up in my YouTube recommendations of someone doing a pen and watercolour of a house in Edinburgh. I (naively!) thought that I might be able to manage something similar ... albeit not with the same artistic eye, finesse, nor as quickly. But I'm always up for trying something new, so I picked up some cheap (and not so cheerful!) materials, found a photo I thought I might be able to use as a subject, and here we are:
A terraced house in Walkley, Sheffield
Learning so much by doing, and consequently finding out how much I don't know and what skills I need to develop.
Might I suggest you find a way to make two attempts at a subject; one from a photo, and one "en plein air", in real life? You may find the results and differences interesting. You may not.
Watercolour is much harder to get right outdoors, but the effects of being outside are great benefits to enhancing your eye: having to deal with the change in light on the subject; working quickly if you are doing wet in wet; or making a series of preparatory sketches and taking that back inside as a resource for the final work with colour.
Your illustrative style has a good eye for line and form, and your colour choices for the tone and shade are observant.
Great to see your contribution. Looking forward to more!