Drawing a Muse, Part 3

It’s convention season, yay anime!

Manga Start will be at Fanime con in San Jose on May 25, that’ll be next weekend!

We’ll be giving a Panel presentation and hanging out with Bay Area Artists Unite in the Artist Alley. See you there!

I’ve made some progress on the Muse W.I.P. series and I wanted to share.

I’ve inked the muse, but not any of the background. In our Inking lesson, you can download some inking worksheets to try inking yourself!For the muse drawing, I did *not* use different line widths, because I will rely on the color to divide different areas from each other. In manga, sometimes they will use different screentones to do the same thing.

I also got excited and started painting before scanning just the inks. But I stopped in the middle to show you something neat!

Here are some painting and coloring principles I’m using here.

1) When you watercolor, Start with the lightest color first!

– - My colors from light to dark: orange, green, red, blue
– - Later, you can use dark colors to cover any mistakes you make with the light colors

2) Let surrounding colors reflect onto your subject.

– - I am using the orange color from the ground and mountains to shade the muse’s white dress.
– - This is one of the principles we covered in How to draw a Sphere. Surrounding light builds part of the shadow and core shadow!
– - When the surrounding color reflects onto your subject, it will be a lighter version of the dominant color. The orange on the dress is lighter than the orange of the mountains

Thanks for coming this week! I’ll leave you with a high resolution scan of the inks and watercolors. See you at Fanime!