Process at Gosh / Watercolour Presentation Pictures

I had a great time giving a watercolour presentation at Process at Gosh Comics last night.

Before it kicked off I prepared an ink drawing to add colour to later…

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WatercolourProcess-04.5 WatercolourProcess-05Andy Poyiadgi talked brilliantly about putting together his exhibition for The Lakes comics festival and how the festival involved the local community, similar to the French Angouleme Festival.
WatercolourProcess-06Next up the brilliant Lorenzo Fiorini talked through the process of laying out panels and story telling as told to him by artist Eduardo Risso (100 Bullets, Batman: Noir). WatercolourProcess-07 WatercolourProcess-08Then it was over to me to babble away while painting.  Two pics below by Lily Withycombe.WatercolourProcess-09 WatercolourProcess-10It was good to hear further watercolour suggestions and ideas from many of the experienced creators gathered around, including Rosie Polet, Francesca Dare and Maartje Schalkx.
Two pics below by Francesca.WatercolourProcess-11 WatercolourProcess-12So here was the piece by the end of the presentation…WatercolourProcess-13And here it is after I added some more layers of watercolour.
I added some additional texture on the wood, ground and bushes. I also gave some of the other areas richer and more defined tones.
After scanning it, I cleaned up the speech bubble a bit on Photoshop.WatercolourProcess-14There you go.  Thanks very much to Steve for asking me to come along!

Water Colour Presentation at Process

I’m looking forward to doing some live watercolours tomorrow and talking through the process at, appropriately enough, Process at Gosh Comics  tomorrow evening…

Process
Gosh Comics
1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR
Wednesday 6th November 2013, 7pm

8-WatercoloursCome along to this fantastic free event.  As well as my presentation you can listen to Andy Poyiadgi talking through putting together his exhibition for The Lakes comics festival and Lorenzo Fiorini will be talking about an instructional essay on storytelling visually that he was given by Eduardo Risso (100 Bullets, Batman: Noir).

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