This months SVS challenge was an inking one.
Specifically:
“Since we are getting ready for Inktober around here, this month’s prompt is all about the ink: Today was the day, she just KNEW it. Today, Ellie would finally snap a photo of an ink fairy.
There’s a few extra requirements just to get in the spirit of things:
-Must be ink, or look like ink
-Must be black and white”
Since I am just starting to tiptoe into this medium and skill, I thought I’d sit it out and just marvel at what everyone else came up with.
But then I started doing this water colour nature study week, and I dabbled with my ink pens a little.
So, I figured why not.
Watercolour counts as inking, right?
My first pass, splashing some black watercolour paint around. Gearing up to smoosh paint splots all over my work…
Paint splots!
The idea was to show the ink fairies’ mess as they flew along with their mischievous plan. I used google photos to turn this image more black and white, as my water colour paper is apparently very yellow.
My attempt at fancy tool staging:
And the finished, I have no idea what I’m doing, piece:
But wait! There’s tweaks!
These tweaks are kind of reverse tweaks. I’d made the whole background darker to try and get a better contrast between subjects and background. And then I added a white outline thingy around the girl and fairies. Which kind of made them glow. I wasn’t loving it.
So I chucked that layer and went with a darker fade around the outside of the picture, and lost the glowing girl effect.
Um, I’m having a hard time choosing. I might take it to the SVSlearn forum and see if there is anyone with some advice.
…Okay. I got some advice. One person mentioned that the black fade around the picture was out of place. So I tried a different look.
This is the submission:
Yup, no more tweaks now.