"Guardian" - watercolour and digital
This painting was done over the holidays for the Reckless Deck ArtOrder Challenge. For this contest, you had to create a character using a random set of Reckless Deck cards. Each card has an attribute on it, so when you randomly pick a few, you can get any crazy combination of words to inspire you and generate ideas for characters. This is the set of cards I got (by clicking a link on the contest page):
I started to come up with ideas of a Guardian angel character.
Below were my 2 fave thumbnails which I then colored. I hasd some crit at this point and then had to choose which one to do. I started to develop the one on the right but ended up changing my mind.
Once I committed to the one on the left, I took some reference photos and did a final drawing on watercolor paper and got painting.
Finished watercolor:
The watercolor painting was a good start. I scanned it in and did some changes digitally to the color, lighting, and whip.
I received more crit at this point and made some final tweaks and here's the finished painting:
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