"Grumpy crab" watercolor painting with steps

in #elegance6 years ago (edited)

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Heat wave makes me grumpy

So, I don't know what it's like in other parts of the world, but here in Central Europe we are nearing the end of 2 weeks of a heat wave with over 30°C each day. As I'm a freelancer working from home with no air conditioning, I tend to swim in my own sweat while working these days. Even drawing becomes exhausting!
And I also see it in my subjects: I'm drawing intuitively, so I never really know what will be the result on the paper, when I start painting.
This time it seems to be a self portrait. This grumpy crab has a very similar facial expression to mine. Please, let this heat end soon!

I'll show you some steps of this drawing:

First I did a pencil sketch
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Then I painted the background blue
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I added green and painted the eyes
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After it dried I painted the crab's body with different shades of orange, red and pink
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I added some shadows with darker orange and red on the body and black on the background
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And finally I drew the outlines in black fineliner, added some plants and fish and mussels. In the end I used white pencil for the highlights on the body, a white gel pen for the eyes and darkened the shadows with a black pencil
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Thanks for watching and thanks for your support!

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Great painting! Really like the colors and expression :D

Thank you so much :-)


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Thanks a lot for your support!

He he he, so cool, it's funny and very well painted, congrats a very original work.

Thanks a lot :-)

I really love the colors and his facial expression! Hope you're able to cool off soon!!

Thank you! I hope so too... They say it's going to rain tomorrow - finally!

It's really nice! I love watercolor a lot and it was interesting to see the process!

Thank you 😊

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Very cute ! I love his expression and I kind of feel like him, most days XD Great colours, also <3 And the step by step is nicely presented <3

Thank you! I'll try to do more step-by-steps. Often I forget to take photos while painting though. I don't want to interrupt the flow 😉

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