Squiggle Challenge #1 - Advance (Winter Soldier)

[goss]

Title: Advance (Winter Soldier)
Artist: goss
Rating: G
Fandom: MCU, Captain America
Characters/Pairings: Bucky Barnes
Content Notes: Created for the Squiggle Challenge #1. Sketched and shaded the piece with watercolour pencils, then I applied water with a brush to intensify the dark values and add texture to the background.

Preview:

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Comments

[mekare]

This is great. I need to find my watercolour pencils. I actually knew about the trick with taking the colour straight from the pencil tip but haven't used it much. I also have never rendered a metal surface with watercolour. It's looking great here!

[goss]

Thank you! :) Glad you like the effect with the watercolour. I'm fascinated with trying to capture reflective surfaces like metal, glass and water. I love how when you're filling in the colour up close, it hardly makes sense and just looks like a random mess, but when you pull back a bit, the brain totally interprets it as this real, shiny surface! So cool. ^__^

[mekare]

Yep, our brains are awesome. I remember having that experience in school, when we learned about pointillism and impressionism. Up close you see random dots of colour and from farther away suddenly there's an image.