During my time learning Gouache, I tried to make it fun for myself and paint a series of goblins with huge asses. I made a step further to expanding my art skills and work with a media I’ve always been curious about.
I’ll walk you through my process of creating this small painting.
The Holbein Artist Gouache I use for my current paintings are as followed:
- Alizarin Crimson
- Cobalt Blue
- Raw Sienna
- Permanent Green Light
- Burnt Umber
- Cadmium Yellow
- Cerulean Blue
- Ivory Black
- Zinc White
As you know, these aren’t the meant to be the optimal colors for universal painting, but the paints I had for use.
For the initial process, I started with the pencil sketch on an older Koval Pro Fabriano B5 5.5×7.8 Sketchbook. Since I know I’ll paint over the lines to cover any mistakes, I didn’t get too worked up about having good line art. After this, I start the first washes with with Blick Studio Synthetic 1/2 Inch Flat Brush and 1 Inch Round Brushes which seem to not be for sale anymore
The next uphill climb was mixing a grey color for the donkey that didn’t look like mud. It’s smart to mike the warm colors with the cool colors to grey them out. But, I should’ve mixed the paint from the tube instead of using water to mix the dried colors. Later; I added the goblin’s skin a base of Cadmium Yellow mixed with Permanent Green and mix it with accents of pink for subsurface scattering like real skin. I’m not as happy with the effect.
The values get pushed for the next layers by adding Cobalt Blue to the green mixes and gradient the skin. I got desperate for clearer values and mixed more Burnt Umber for the hair and deeper body points.
I dived into a YouTube Tutorial by Sofia Pavan Macias and it gave me more insight to how to use gouache opaque qualities. Mixing my Zinc White with a Cobalt Blue, I add more sky color to the background to add more vibrancy.
After working off the paper and darker washes colors mixed with Cerulean Blue to add more values, I finished up the painting to something that I think is presentable. I even worked with more Alizarin Crimson for the donkey to get it to pop away from the goblin more.
Gouache and Watercolor has always been suggested to me, but I never get around to any painting until now. One day I’ll make a gallery full of these Goblin paintings. Soon, I’ll have cops helplessly beating their nightsticks to these because of their incurable horniness for goblin ass.
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