Experimenting with Watercolors

anystar

Soooo...I decided to start messing around with watercolors, mostly for backgrounds for my artwork. I'm usually a copic or prisma markers person for my work outside of class (which usually involves pastels, charcoal, pencil or a computer), so any tips for this new media would be useful.


From previous critiques I've been told that moving the horizon line up more would lend to a nicer composition. I hadn't really done a lot of planning - I was just trying to go with the flow. For me, I really don't like the blue. At first I thought it would make the figure pop some from the background, but now I'm bleh about it. I'm not really much of a colorist (hence my webcomic is black and white) so really any tips and c/c is appreciated.

JRosey

Nothing helpful from me about watercoloring but I can't tear my eyes away from the tangent of her knuckles and chest line.

Looks really good, otherwise.

misosoup

mucha innit
you need to think about layering, your grass looks seethrough, like it was an afterthought, it might well have been. also your colour choice is really poor, this is a hard one to discuss the use of watercolor with, seeing as you've just coloured in, you coud have done the same piece as this in many a different medium. keep working, try to use more depth and broader colours, trees aren't actually completly brown.
and keep looking at Mucha

p.s. for me the roses in markers behind the blue are really ugly, but thats probably just taste, I won't even start to get into the anatomy, suffice to say that she has no bones

ála the neck