More on Watercolour

So today I have a couple of new pieces of concept art to share with you all (how ever many of 'you' there are). The first one is a practice piece in watercolour in which I wanted to try using an undercoat in a different colour aside from yellow/orange that I mostly use. I find the undercoat helps to unite all the colours and give a strong feel to the image.

I really wanted to do a character that I'd not normally consider and decided to centre on a nature photographer, someone who goes to extreme lengths to discover rare and exotic species of plant life and catalogue them. I loved the idea that she found something so beautiful in such a run-down abandoned place. It also gave me a chance to try drawing an environment recaptured by nature.

The second artwork for today was a gift for my father for father's day (yes I did that on purpose). The way I went about this was a fairly tried and true method for concept art: Combining 2 different things to get something new. Two of my dad's favourite things are wine and aircraft, so I attempted to put them together and came up with a flying wine broker. The idea being that she would travel the world in her plane buying exclusive wines and bringing them back for her clients. I enjoyed doing this so much I started to think about doing a follow-up and draw her plane. I thought about basing it on a World War 1 era bomber.

I have another artwork which is also a present to show, but I haven't yet had a chance to present (pun intended) it to it's owner. I feel that she should have the right to view it first. That's it from me.