(Samish Overlook, Skagit County, WA.)
Me, today 2am: "...wait...so is the deadline for the "It's Kind of a Funny Story" panel redraw challenge...ON the 23rd... or BEFORE?...!?!?" (Starts Sweating)☹️💦
Yup. Me and Alex. Both waiting until right before the deadline to get our shit together!
(Edit: Me. Just now realizing today is the 20th,not the 22nd and I stayed up until 8am for no reason.🙃)
I've been trying out watercolor in an attempt to stop obsessing over details so much, since it tends to work a lot better if you just let the paint do what it wants and not fuss over with every little thing.
😑 Mixed results on that front.
I never liked water color before because there was no way to cover up mistakes so I thought you had to have everything planned out perfectly in advance. I never realized you can go back AFTER the paint dries and touch things up. You know, because WATER color paints, are WATER soluble.🤦 Or you know shading with lots of layers instead of trying to get each shade exactly right on the first go. Also properly soaking/stretching your paper and stapling it to gator board so it doesn't warp the second you start painting. All good things to know!
Anyway I think it looks pretty good for my third try at painting with this medium in...wow 17 years.
Fun fact: I took the reference photo I used for this at the Samish Overlook in Skagit County, Washington, just a ways north of Seattle, where the story "very vaugely takes place"!
If anyone who sees this lives in the area I highly recommend checking it out! It's a bit of a drive to get up to, but you don't even have to hike for this particular view, this was taken maybe 50 ft from the edge of the parking area!
