details, sewing + watercolor + prismacolor pencils

below you will find the first real attack on one of maralena's awesome backgrounds. i took some gesso over in the general shape of the figure, and hair, (2 coats), then laid down some pen lines (techliner). after it dried for a few seconds, i put in some watercolor, then decided to hand sew some stitches on the shirt. below you can see a detail of that in process...



next came more watercolor, tinting the skin, lips, eyes. after some consideration, i pulled out the prismacolors and went over the paint. de-lish. they're my favorite colored pencils. sooo smooth. yum.


if you look closely, you can see the lines in the face which are texture left by maralena's painting. mmm texture!

what's she looking at? hmmm. dunno. we'll see soon enough.