Story of a Tomte (part 3)

Have had a nice holliday; walking the forest, picking mushrooms, blueberries, raspberries... made new friends, met a frog and longhorned grasshopper, and on top of all that, I finished the watercolor work on my piece about a tomte! It has a nice warm classic feel to it which I don't want to change.

 

Now a few digital strokes are still going to be added in order to work out the values better, but as this piece is larger than my scanner I will have to send it off for digital photo reproduction. that will give me a nice crisp image without too much paper texture to work with.

Story of a Tomte (part 2)

I have started the watercolor process of piece, thought I'd give you some progress shots!

 

The underpainting done...

 

Started to work on the shadows...

Story of a Tomte

Continuing on the trail of Scandinavian folklore, I am doing a small series of images telling the story of a Tomte and his many struggles. Below are early images from the starting process.

 This was the second draft that I made, it explains the general idea of the image...

I then did a little more refined sketch that I will base the finals on...

And a quick value composition in Photoshop I will use as reference when painting the image in watercolor...

Utopia 54 (page 004)

Time for another page! I am seriously considering making a separate page for Utopia 54 soon. Reason being It is starting to dominate my first page!! The idea for this month is to put up some more sketches and drawings of fairy tale creatures though. Hope to bring your some interesting stuff soon!