Thor & Midgard Serpent: Watercolor Painting Steps

Painting Process from left to right.

1: Image on watercolor paper

2: Blocking in

3: Early stage(everything is the color it should be)

4: Deepen Reds

5: Push Color on Serpent

6: Push colors (especially the darks which is key for watercolor)

7: Final colors and focus on details

bottom final image large

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Thor & the Midgard Serpent Process: Watercolor Start

The image is finalized, blown up, and transfered to watercolor paper.  I make my first pass with colors.  I'm really loose and sloppy at this stage.  At the early painting phase (block-in stage), I'm just going for coverage and getting the main colors down.

This early color stage is fun as the image just starts to look like something.

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Thor & the Midgard Serpent Process: Drawings and Value Sketches

Top: Tight Pencils and Value Sketch

Middle:         Toned Paper Drawing

Bottom:         Thor and Hymir Drawing

So on the small scale 3x5inch; I finalize the drawing.  Then I make a value sketch to get a better idea of my lights and darks.  For the first time I made a drawing on brown toned paper, to break down the neutral, darks and highlights of the image.

On the bottom, while the Thor and Hymir are rather small I made a tight pencil drawing of the characters.

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