This is a back-dated post for my archive project, where I am copying over every piece of art I have ever submitted to DeviantArt, with the original submission date or watermarked year stamp, so a complete archive of my work can be found on this website.

Reference: flecs by ~Shanionion

After months of thinking about it, I finally went out and bought myself the full set of Prismacolor watercolor pencils. This is the second piece I tried to do with them, and I think it turned out fairly decent. The watercolor made it much faster to lay the base colors, but I had a bit of trouble getting them exactly where I wanted them. It was also a bit strange to work with the texture the pencil marks left, even after water was applied.

I added a bit of colored pencil to help darken the shadows on the bird, particularly around the wings, and to adjust a bit of the coloring on the highlighting.

After receiving feedback on my first upload of this painting (shown below), I tried to lighten the chick’s shadow. That didn’t work very well, so instead I darkened the shadows on the chick so the dark shadow might make more sense. I also added some more details to the feathers and fluff, and the scatter of birdseed.

After months of thinking about it, I finally went out and bought myself the full set of Prismacolor watercolor pencils. This is the second piece I tried to do with them, and I think it turned out fairly decent. It’s not as detailed as most of my straight colored pencil work, but given some practice I think I can get there. The watercolor made it much faster to lay the base colors, but I had a bit of trouble getting them exactly where I wanted them. It was also a bit strange to work with the texture the pencil marks left, even after water was applied. I plan to experiment more with them.

I added a bit of colored pencil to help darken the shadows on the bird, particularly around the wings, and to adjust a bit of the coloring on the highlighting.