Today I learned how to resize images, save them as jpegs (you cannot simply change the last three letters to jpg and try to save it), copy them into photoshop, stitch two images together, and about fifty other things that everyone else already knows. Now if only I could learn how to water color. Thank goodness for line art. I'm sincerely attempting to improve my water color technique but I always end up correcting by depending on my line art. As shown in my first image, I tend to treat water color like acrylic or oil. I understand that layers are the key, to let it dry and everything else Master Terry taught us, but I can't get aways from thinking that with out strong line art structure my water colors look like markers in a child's coloring book. And I know its not great to be really critical of things in the art that weren't part of the project requirements but I'm disappointed in my last image because the line art drawing is the aspect I take the most pride in. The proportion of the lower hand, and the facial expression were rushed and not given enough attention before I started the coloring and inking or I would have noticed how large the hand is and the off coloring on the brow. But there is improvement from the first set of ten watercolor landscapes.
