I recently got my hands on a bunch of watercolour books and magazines and was instantly inspired to use it myself again after a long time. I was at the time working on this illustration of kids on the market and thought it'd make a great watercolour subject; I hadn't used any reference to achieve a somewhat naive look, and quickly finished what I had started in Photoshop, topping it off with some grainy paper and stain textures (top image). I then went into Rebelle and painted the entire thing again from scratch with watercolours and pencils (bottom image). I wonder if the effort is worth it to also paint the image in real watercolours. Now, which one is better? In both the Canary melons in the front have awful colours ;) The tidier background of the bottom image is good, the richer colours of the top image are nice ...?