ebrunner wrote:
Love the colors and I really think you handled the tail well with the colors merging with the colors of the water. Nice.
Erich
Thanks, Erich. I attempted to create a watery effect where a subtle, more translucent color would work best for me.
This is my attempt at digitally painting a sea turtle using Clip Paint Studio and a graphic display tablet with a stylus to emulate the brushes used.
Linda From Maine wrote:
Love it! The blues and greens of the water look so realistic and 3D, with the glimpse of rocks on bottom. Great choice of koi colors too.
Thanks, Linda. A Koi is a simple shape to draw and paint. It was created with soft base colors and blended with a "watery blending brush". The final shape of the Koi was formed with a soft eraser and a fine edge applied in places. The blues and greens of the water were painted using watercolor glazing brushes and the layer transparency was set low.
I attempted to paint the gravel background layer; however, it was frustrating to paint it the way I wanted so I used a gravel texture for the base background which I desaturated and lowered the opacity.
Placing the transparent blues and greens over it as an overlay worked for me. The Koi I painted sits on top of it all.
This is my attempt at digitally painting a Koi using the Clip Paint graphic painting program and a graphic display tablet and stylus.