Marc Taro Holmes

It’s absolutely wrong for this series. Completely lacking the long views to the horizon that draw you in. It’s simply not what I’m looking for in this series. I figure – if you’re going to fail – fail big!

Here’s another video replay of the sketching process. Because I’m making the watercolor all-in-one-go, I really need a clear idea of where the lights and darks are before the brush touches paper. You’d have to be fantastically lucky, or be drawing something you knew absolutely by heart. Well, I suppose – similar to drawing directly in ink –

The big gains that we were expecting might not be visible yet. The leaps in skill are going to happen after it’s all over. Something where there’s nothing to stress over. Or spread out everything you’ve done so far and post a snapshot of that. It’s probably looking pretty good if you step back :)

Usually, I go back and forth about which I like better – the digital sketch or the watercolor. The digital sketch looks like it’s pre-dawn. I’ll have to try a version that’s a real effort at a nocturnal painting. That’s one thing about painting irl (in real life).