Creating my Blockchain Boho Lady

Making my Boho lady

My recent post Blockchain Bohemians contained a digital image and poem. This post show the making of that image, my 'Blockchain Boho Lady'. The character in the painting has a certain bohemian feel to her, the curved lines and forms of her clothing are a hint to her mystery and free spirit.

I started by drawing the outline of the figure in pencil, using long sweeping lines for the hair and clothing. I also gave the figure a elongated neck and face shape. Lines of colour were built up with watercolour pencils, before using water to bleed the lines.

I scanned the original watercolour painting using an illustration filter. I then increased the darker tones and contrast, making the blues in the picture slightly darker.


For the background I was considering a representation of a small-world network, a type of mathematical graph. However, I decide for this piece to use a mesh network as reference point, I wanted to create a simple design of networked circles and this fitted better with that concept.

Using a graphics editor I drew a background of dark blue circles, connecting some of them together to form a network. I then added a background colour, and colour to some of the circles.

The final stage was to add the image of the lady over the background layers.

'Blockchain Boho Lady'

You can see this image and read the poem The Blockchain Bohemians in my recent post Blockchain Bohemians.

Have a great day and Steem on!