My mum has been visiting for the holidays. For her recent birthday I decided that instead of making a birthday card from a photo of one the roses from my garden (as I usually do) I would make her a drawing/painting of one on a card instead. The paper of the card has a ridged texture and I imagined that this would be an interesting component of the final piece. Using a photo of one of my roses as reference on screen in front of me, I sketched onto the paper the lines in which I was interested in pencil to get the overall shape and structure, then inked key lines, and then used Inktense water-soluble pencils to lay down areas of colour, and finally flooded either into or out of those areas with water (using a small brush) to get the desired finish. I include the four steps in an animation to your left. (Hit reload to run it again if you want to.)
Enjoy.
-cvj
