Stuck inside

Another quickie. It's hard to have to be inside when it's spring and the weather is beautiful. This was my first idea for last week's Illustration Friday prompt "lesson".

Boy and rabbit

A quick sketch quickly colored. I trust he's intending to give that carrot to the rabbit and isn't teasing him with it.

Illustration Friday - beginner

As a cautious person myself, I find all my sympathies are with the beginning swimmer!

May blossoms

This was the May page for a calendar I did. One thing I can do in photoshop that I can't do in watercolor is to make totally smooth gradations from one color into another.

Still learning

The left picture is essentially the same as yesterday's but with the background lightened up a bit. The right one is my attempt to be more painterly, covering over the drawing lines and letting less of the background tint show through. I have to say I prefer the one on the left but that may be because I have a lot to learn about painting in photoshop. One thing that is hard after years of watercolor is thinking in terms of moving from dark to light instead of light to dark.

Continuing Photoshop adventures

I painted this in Photoshop after watching Will Terry's digital painting in photoshop videos, which you can buy here. I know that he would take the image much further, but I'm so excited by the process that I decided to post this now and then try working on it more later.

Illustration Friday - lesson

I chose to show a knitting lesson. This is the first piece I've colored with my new (bottom of the line) graphics tablet. It does feel a lot less clumsy than a mouse, but I still have a lot to learn about using photoshop. As a watercolorist my natural tendency is to build color in light layers but I want to learn other approaches.