Ideas Of Materials & Techniques For The Illustration Piece

Here I have experimented with applying a wash of watercolour tone on a variety of different density ink marks. I feel that this technique was very successful as the watercolour was able to only give tone to the areas without ink even with the darkest ink mark I could manage to create which created an interesting effect.



For this experiment I have sketched the form of a standard bone using fine liner and then applied ink marks to the areas of shadow with a wash of a brown watercolour tone to give the effect of an old fossilised bone. I feel that this experiment was very successful as I was able to incorporate a variety of brown tones using the watercolour which I feel added layers of dimension to the piece. The use of ink and watercolour also creates a contrast between the materials and highlights the areas of texture created by the marks of ink. However I do not feel I will use this technique within my final piece illustration as the tones of the sculpture and illustration would be too similar and may not contrast each other in the way which I had planned for. I also feel that as the illustration would feature a whole ribcage, the watercolour wash may not be as effective as for one large bone subject as there is quite a lot of negative space within the sketch before adding the watercolour, whereas the illustration would feature lots of smaller bones so I feel that this may overpower the ink shading within the piece.


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