decrypting rita

Some progress on my Decrypting Rita fan-art, which I first previewed on Friday.

On the left – the art as-scanned. On the right, I’ve experimented with digitally deepening some of the shadows. Not quite happy with things yet, but it’s late and time to head to bed.

I was really not sure how I was going to tackle the colours for this one, considering the source material’s approach to colour!

I just had to conquer my fears and dive into it. I got a chance to use some new brown ink (the result of forgetting to empty my wallet before entering an art store), which I’ve used in the shadows across all but Rita1. I was thinking it’d work well to unify the colours across the image but I decided not to use it with the blues.

I reckon I’ll try out some more paintings with the new ink, might be good for some life drawing studies.

Meanwhile I need to work out how to get darker shadows with my watercolours. It’s been a problem in my last few paintings. Might just need to use black ink for it.