Gouache, 5th May: Shallan (Patreon)

After pulling off a non-human portrait yesterday, I wanted to try a human one, and Shallan volunteered (also because I wanted to do the skin rather translucent and more squarely in comfort zone territory) that wouldn’t have worked with Kaladin.

I like parts of this, but there’s also the question how smart it is to try to achieve the sorts of results in an unfamiliar medium that I know to do perfectly well in a familiar medium.

What I want to do is to do something like a creamy, soft gradient effect… maybe I haven’t found the right subject matter yet. The flowerbeds that everyone else paints aren’t it, I can say that much. ;)