The second word of the week I chose from for my next illustration was talent- and immediately the first thing that came to mind was magicians! I started with a few sketches on paper and decided the best medium to try for this piece was watercolour. I was pretty exited to try a layering technique to create the magic 'smoke' coming out from the wand.
Heres the sketch of the hat that I had started to paint on. I have countless other thumbnails of it in my sketchbook, but this is what I eventually came up with (with a watercolour part already a bit started).
Once the hat and wand was done, I began to work on layering the clouds up and around the page into the wand. I worked with really wet washes of blobs around the page, starting with really light grey and working my way into darker colours. Heres an example:
Which brings us to our final image, where I then added in a few sprays of white acrylic paint to give it some sparkle:
My next two illustrations will be based on the words "Swim" and "Storm"- One being another digital painting, and the other a vector illustration. Both are being worked on at the moment, and I hope to have one posted by next week.
