I added colour to this image of Eli a few weeks back, but I'm only getting around to putting it up now. It's not perfect, this was my first foray into watercolours in a long time, so some of the washes are a bit uneven. I've since become really excited about the medium. Every time I tried to paint with watercolours in the past, I was way too impatient and it all became a total mess. This isn't the best example of my new-found watercolour prowess, hopefully my latest images will be up soon as evidence. It wasn't the case with this image, but I found during my recent painting process that good watercolours really aren't done justice by my cheap printer/scanner. This bummed me out for a few days, but I finally came around to the sad realisation that it takes a few more hours of Photoshop tweaking to get the scan looking like the original, at least with my technique.
Either way, I'm fairly happy my pen lines and watercolours combination.
