Jenny Dolfen
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Gouache, day six: REALLY getting the hang of things
🕑 Added 2025-05-06 17:38:10 +0000 UTCMissing scene from the Stormlight Archive: Kaladin's mother Hesina, heavily pregnant with her third child, gets a letter from the army that Kaladin was dead, four years after he wrote to them saying his brother was dead. (She tells him later they got this letter just after he was made a slave, either to spare them the shame, or to discourage any inquiries into his fate). The upside down faces by the wall are agonyspren, which we see only a couple of times in the books.
I had a lot of very interesting takeaways today:
I was able to draw the sketch for this in my sketchbook, with poor lighting and without a magnifying glass, at the staffroom today. Granted, my eyes are through for the day, but WORTH IT.
Detail works incredibly well in gouache. In part, almost better than in watercolour.
Lineart in gouache doesn’t cut it, but you can paint over it and fix that.
When you think your picture looks like crap, maybe it just needs two more hours of work.
My gouache process basically looks like this:
🙂🙁😳😣🙂😀🙂😱🙂↕️🙂
Definitely something I can build on. 😅
Comments
Jenny Dolfen
Ooooh yes. What happened to me all the time while sketching yesterday and today was me double-tapping the paper in the hopes a stroke would disappear, and even more often, making a stroke and holding the pencil to make it snap straight 😂
KylieW
I really can't express in words how happy I am for you to be able to explore and enjoy physical art media again after so many years ❤️ Your digital art is equally amazing, of course, and your patient work with it has truly paid off, but I know there's a different kind of joy in the sensory experience of actually holding a paintbrush... the scent of the paint, watching it spread on the paper under your brush, and of course, accidentally dipping paint into your tea/coffee... Anyway, what a beautiful and heartbreaking painting. A powerful image of a mother's grief.
Ell
The PAIN in her face and entire body!
