Sketches from the shop today

Puzzled

This weeks word was puzzled so i drew a picture that is a riddle its not hard to figure out here it is in steps a usual.

 This me sketching out my idea trying to put it all together

 This a ink outline so I can trace to the watercolor paper I also used a non-photo pencil to get an idea of how I wanted to shade it.

 This is the finished watercolor I think its my best one yet.

Vocal

This weeks word was vocal I didn't do the process this time I was gonna colour it but I liked the way it looked in black and white so I kept it that way.

Return

This is for last weeks word return the first thing that came to my mind were movies so this is what I did.

 This is the original sketch.

 This is the ink tracing for the transfer to watercolor

This is my finished watercolor

Illustration Techniques

I practiced some illustration techniques here is my process.

 This is my pencil drawing that I started with.

 This is me giving a try at cross hatching better luck next time

 This is my ink wash painting its my favorite in the group

 This is a black and grey acrylic wash painting

 This is a mono chromatic painting I used blue 

 This is a complimentary color painting its my second favorite I choose yellow and purple.

This is my full color painting the last one in the series.

Swamp

This is my watercolor for last weeks illustration Friday sorry to all my fans out there that I couldn't get it posted sooner. I chose the creature from the black lagoon for my illustration this week for the word swamp. Hope you enjoy.

 This is my original drawing in my note book

 This is my shaded version on my watercolor

This is my finished watercolor

Shades

This is my ruff sketch of the family of owls I did for shades

 This is the ink tracing i used to transfer it to the water-colour I put sunglasses on it since the word is shades.

This is the finished water-colour