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Aquaman commission

Added 2022-02-11 19:41:14 +0000 UTC

Some fun - and slightly unorthodox (although still seen multiple times before) - techniques on display here, so I guess it's a good time to remind you about one of the tricks!

As seen on photos 2 and 3: I do the grey washes here with a water-based grey marker and watercolor; with watercolor specifically, I spill some water on the area I want to paint first, then do a few strategic touches of brush dipped in dark paint, letting it flow and spill. Then I close it with a sprinkle of simple kitchen salt (see more on the technique all over art yotube - for example, here), and leave it all to dry. Big grains of salt dropped into denser amount of watercolor gives better result, but it serves me well enough here, too.

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And this time around, I have THREE versions of the drawing for you:

1) Clean and pretty scan:

2) Square screentone:

3) Noise screentone - the most experimental one, I guess?

Anyway, I know that "clean" version probably has more "truth" and character to it, but damn, I can never resist a rough looking screentone job on these commissions.