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The next in my geographic series! ^_^ This time it's Swamp! She was one of the ones that I thought would be really tough to get right when I first thought of her, but I'm really happy with what I was able to do with her.

I know it's been a long time since I did the last one of these, and it was around the beginning of December that I started thinking I needed to work on the next one. A few days after I started debating which one to do next, my Science Education class took a field trip to a local park, and we walked over to the swamp area there. I decided while we were looking at the trees and stuff that I had to do swamp next, and in my notes from the trip are a couple quick little sketches of the way the trees looked and a little spit of land in the middle of the water (which is why that purple bit of land is there in the picture).

One of the most fascinating things to me about art is the way that you can discover things that you didn't even know you could do. I decided that I wanted her face halfway below the water, with her hair all floating on top of it. But when I sat down to do the initial sketch I had no clue how to draw hair floating on water like that. So, I played with it and one little line I happened to make showed me exactly how to do it!

I drew the lineart right around Christmas, and have been coloring it in little bits and pieces ever since. I was stymied for a long time because I was trying to figure out how to color the water- there's so much of it that it really sets the tone for the whole picture, you know? I couldn't color it the wrong color or it would ruin the whole thing. So it took me a while to get that fear of ruining it out of my system and just sit down and finish it.

My favorite elements about this one are her hair, and the way her dress looks under the water, and the bit of land in the background- I was afraid the purple would look weird there, but I don't think it does, and I love the effect it has on the overall look. Tell me what you guys like or dislike about it!

I promise more are coming soon! I WILL finish all 12!
Geographic series:
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Description
The next in my geographic series! ^_^ This time it's Swamp! She was one of the ones that I thought would be really tough to get right when I first thought of her, but I'm really happy with what I was able to do with her.

I know it's been a long time since I did the last one of these, and it was around the beginning of December that I started thinking I needed to work on the next one. A few days after I started debating which one to do next, my Science Education class took a field trip to a local park, and we walked over to the swamp area there. I decided while we were looking at the trees and stuff that I had to do swamp next, and in my notes from the trip are a couple quick little sketches of the way the trees looked and a little spit of land in the middle of the water (which is why that purple bit of land is there in the picture).

One of the most fascinating things to me about art is the way that you can discover things that you didn't even know you could do. I decided that I wanted her face halfway below the water, with her hair all floating on top of it. But when I sat down to do the initial sketch I had no clue how to draw hair floating on water like that. So, I played with it and one little line I happened to make showed me exactly how to do it!

I drew the lineart right around Christmas, and have been coloring it in little bits and pieces ever since. I was stymied for a long time because I was trying to figure out how to color the water- there's so much of it that it really sets the tone for the whole picture, you know? I couldn't color it the wrong color or it would ruin the whole thing. So it took me a while to get that fear of ruining it out of my system and just sit down and finish it.

My favorite elements about this one are her hair, and the way her dress looks under the water, and the bit of land in the background- I was afraid the purple would look weird there, but I don't think it does, and I love the effect it has on the overall look. Tell me what you guys like or dislike about it!

I promise more are coming soon! I WILL finish all 12!
Geographic series:
[link]