I saw this girl busking in town today, and wrested my father's phone from him so I could snap a few reference photos (my own phone is so old that it doesn't even have colour, let alone a camera =P) and used one of them to do this tonight.
I'm not at all sure what type of dancing she was doing, certainly something Asian, but it was pretty, and she was so gorgeously happy while she was doing it. This is based heavily on one of my photos, but naturally not completely. I wanted a little illustration in my usual watercolour style, not a realistic piece.
It's quite heavy on the gold paint, so here's a photo as well, to show off the shininess:
Winsor and Newton watercolours, Artline Drawing System Pens, Reeves Gouache in Moleskine Sketchbook, about 2.5/3 hours.
I love this picture! It looks so good when you can see the shining gold. I'm glad you posted both versions of the pictures.
ReplyDeleteThanks Imogen! Someone needs to invent a scanner that picks up metallic paint, because sometimes (as with cases like this) it adds such a lot to a picture... but then you can't share it properly. The dancer herself had a lot of metallic stuff on her, and it just wouldn't have been right without all the gold. =)
ReplyDeleteI've seen this girl around town! Isn't she sweet :D love that you took the time to paint her :) hmm also having the same painful thing with gold paints and scanning *sigh* one day scanners will be amazing heh.
ReplyDeleteHi Cally! How're you going? Yes, she's very sweet, so happy! ^.^
DeleteYou're right, one day someone cleverer than me will invent a scanner that does all sorts of fabulous things, just as scanning gold paint and 3d items. Preferably they will do this in my lifetime. =P