illustration friday

My Illustration friday entry for this week, topic is spirit.

Flower Girl Watercolor Painting Process

I can’t believe it’s the last day of November already! Christmas is fast approaching and I’m wondering what happened to my time?! Oh yeah I watched a lot of anime and did overtime every other day. This month I only did 2 watercolor paintings (Des where are your priorities?!).  I did however collated my artworks and made them postcards to sell this Christmas. Extra income here I come! :)

So without further much ado, here’s my flower girl artwork. By the way this will also be part of the postcard collection. Let me know if you are interested to buy. :)

 My inspiration for this artwork was the lime and purple sketch I made. This painting started out as very loose. I used the wet on wet technique using yellow as my base color adding greens and blues sparingly. Next I added pink and yellow for the flowers (Duh!).  At this point I don’t worry about the details yet. These are mostly light so I can paint over them later if ever I’m not happy with some parts. Then I take a break and let the artwork dry.

After the colors are set only then did I start going over the details. This is the part where you don’t realize that you’re holding your breath and sticking out your tongue to make the lines perfect! ☺ This takes about 70% of my painting time.

When doing the details I usually step back to look at the big picture. Looking at the artwork from afar helps me judge if the elements blends together. Adding a flower here will make it more balanced, or having more space at the top let’s your eye rest from all the elements at the bottom. When I step back and see that I have nothing more to add then for me the painting is finshed already. Sometimes it takes just 2 hours sometimes it takes years for me to finish a project. You’ll just know it that feeling that it’s done. ☺

Woof woof christmas pawscard

arf arf woof woof my 2013 Christmas postcard! :) Check out my last year's design here.
This year my christmas postcard design is a Blues Clues inspired dog illustration! :) Will post the steps soon. Keep your paws crossed. :) Cheers!

flower girl

Flower girl watercolor illustration, will make this into a postcard :)

flower girl |  des feliciano

Personal Finance Management for Artists & Musicians

Created a poster for our personal finance management talk. :) I challenged myself to do illustrations using basic shapes and this is what came out. It was fun designing this poster I hope the people who attended the talk learned something. :)

My 5 minute talk was about my journey on how I started investing in the stock market. :) Below are some slides in my presentation.

And here is our group photo! :)

illustration friday moustache

Got time to join Illustration friday, topic for the week is moustache. :) Mr walrus joins the parteeeey! I tried to make different surprised faces, but I think they are all the same. This was a quickie sketch, I really wish I could draw and paint faster. :( I'm trying to do this Illustration Friday a weekly habit, i just hope my schedule permits me to do this. :) (Dear boss please let us not do OT anymore!) :)

Purple & Lime

My cousin recently asked me to do a background illustration for their wedding. Their theme colors are purple and lime, I liked the color combination so much I used it on my watercolor illustration as well. :)

I was browsing my sketchbook and this illustration was just waiting to be colored. :)

I started our blocking the shapes and left it to dry. (meaning I slept)

And the next day I added the details using a 0brush. 

I also used watercolor pencils for the flowers.

And it was done! :) I'm thinking of doing bigger version of this.