Sunday, August 20, 2017

Balloon Lift Off 4: The Lighthouse

I usually post my paint play inspired by Colour Collective earlier, but I'm a bit late this week since I have a tight deadline with sketches to finish for a book for Pelican Publishing (more on that later).

I stole a few minutes (okay, more than just a few) from my sketching time to paint another adventure with the the red balloons using Cordovan as the color inspiration to post to #colour_collective on twitter. I'm trying to keep a logical storytelling sequence to this series, so I also used the teal ocean color from last week and have the girl being swept in from the ocean this time.

Did she travel across the entire sea? I shrug. Perhaps. I was going to paint her in the middle of the ocean with the dog on a boat (which you can see a peek at the dog in a boat possibility with the time-lapse video on instagram), or passing a Cordovan colored pirate ship, but this is what came out when I put finger to iPad with Procreate. I go where the wind takes me, so to speak.

The first image is what I posted for #colour_collective, and the second one is because I felt I needed to push the lighting a bit more, so I spent a bit more time with it. Which one do you like better?

children's illustration feature the fourth of a red ballon advetnrue by Traci Van Wagoner
©2017 Traci Van Wagoner, all rights reserved
Children's adventure series told by illustration by Traci Van Wagoner
©2017 Traci Van Wagoner, all rights reserved

2 comments:

  1. I'm not sure, because it was hard to pinpoint differences...

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    1. Thanks, Mirka. That helps. This means the changes were perhaps too subtle to make much difference.

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