Gouache - Blog Posts
i didn't appreciate the last AQOTWF adaptation from a storytelling point of view, but that movie's visuals are the core inspiration for my project and the reason i started thinking about it altogether.
here's a gouache study i did approximately one month before starting to work on the comic book (so probably january or february of this year)
gouache painting of matt stone and trey parker
Illustration I made last summer for a cool Star Wars french fanzine (link below) 😊 😉.
https://www.starwars-universe.com/bd-swu-35-les-chroniques-de-la-force-r1.html
I promise I didn’t make him look like Alister the radio demon on purpose
Surreal self portrait for my adv art classs
From sketch to finished illustration, gouache and watercolour on gesso primed paper.
Following: more ramblings on the technique and inspiration
I loved the process, and clear gesso one of the best thing to ever happen to artists because sketching on gessoed surfaces is a pain in the ass.
Also this way I didnt have to worry about over working the paper. That in fact is NOT watercolour paper.
Subject-wise I have been toying with re-starting my struggle with the Russian language and in my Tumblr rotted brain I thought that it would be fun to read some fics in Russian with help from the ever loving Google translate. Then I remembered reading when I was like 11-13 some (way too adult for my age probably) great and creepy urban fantasy set in Moscow.
Long story short I then stumbled on this amazing fic for the ночной дозор fandom, and my inner preteen was so delighted I had to paint something. So here is one of my faves, an old schemer of a Light Magician, part time steppe dweller and simp for his way-cooler partner: the Most Bright Gesar just before he met Olga.
Watercolor and gouache sketch based on the photos from the Yellow Submarine premiere, featuring (left to right) unimpressed, ridicolously long lashed Paul, a VERY stylish and VERY judging George, a background almost invisible Ringo and foreground JohnandYoko.
They all are so much fun to draw, their faces are just so caricature worthy.
A mornings worth of paintings at Dolores Park in San Francisco. Love that sunrise
gouache, 2017