Our Living Room v.3.2

Voilà! Actually I did a quick coloring on a Xerox copy first; it turned out to be a good thing, because I still didn’t quite get the teal green right the first time.

Waterbrush is a happy thing for small scale watercolor painting! Yes, size is not its only limitation, but it works very well with pen & ink (in this case, watercolor) as you can see here.

The coloring is on the flat side: I didn’t show the wood grain on the ceiling or the floor. It wasn’t because of my laziness (although it might have something to do with it), but because I personally like the dreamlike colors.

Now I’m happy enough with our living room and can finally stop my obsession with it.

07/13/2006 Updates:
Forgot to mention that I used my camera to help me get the perspective and tonal value. Its 2.5″ low resolution LCD acted like a colored thumbnail sketch, which greatly simplied the picture and made me see the essence. If drawing/painting from a digital photo, you can view it as a thumbnail first, to see the color scheme and tonal value.

I don’t know about others (I’m learning drawing/painting on my own), but I get overwhelmed by on-site drawing a lot. Drawing from photos, strangely, doesn’t produce the same reaction. If you are like me, you might want to try this little tip next time.

Our Living Room v.3

An 2-hour effort just for this… It definitely doesn’t qualify as “sketching,” even though it looks like one. *sigh*

I just want to post this pen drawing before a potential watercolor disaster. This is not a complete drawing, since I left a bunch of places white instead of black. Well, let’s just hope that the watercolor painting will turn out OK.