Several things aligned for this set of sketches - I was on a Star Wars spree after finishing Jedi: Survivor, was hunting for new fun ways to paint, and had expendable material lying about, and so upon deciding working with coloured backgrounds, I sketched jedi, of course. I need an airbrush. Each sketch is only the size of a postcard, the backgrounds are heavily textured from previous experiences; many have paint flakes in them or thickly-dried paint caked on (and some had ground coffee, I think), on either paper of foil. They were originally used to create textures to be used in digital artworks; I spooned leftover paints into office foils and scanned them. I later cut them to small pieces for occasions like these. On this small size, heavy texture is a curse, but at least it prohibited noodling at details. Some even turned out nicely, the ones I prepared specifically better than the old messy ones. I like [line 3, fourth image] because it has a colour texture close to what I had in mind. [Line 1, fourth image] also has something I like with the coloured cloak. While I love looking at very colourful artworks, mine are typically very saturated but lack variety, something I hope to fix with this method. The experiment continues!
