Kittens n Crocs

Arggh it's been too long since I last posted. Not good enough Mel!!

I've been working busily on my crocodile character paintings but it's been, well, an annoying and frustrating exercise thus far. I did this painting in gouache first, and I am not happy with it at all.

Horribly painted and the values are terrible. Also, you can see my fail attempts to do drybrushing. Gah!! This made me think a lot about what I was trying to achieve with my drawing and painting styles, and what I wanted to do after Tafe is finished.

I figured I want to do something involving doing art for children's things. Picture books, educational publications, and maybe things like greeting cards and mascot characters and stuff. So I turned this assignment around and tried to make it really 'children's picture book'-like and here's what I ended up doing.


Not really very happy with either of these two, but I am happy I sort of branched out and tried something different. They're done in watercolour - good watercolour painting is so hard to do - once again, the values are horrible in these and I need to learn to paint flat, even areas of colour with watercolours properly. As for the style, I'm not sure if I really like the dot eyes, but then, they're kind of cute.