Badger in the Woods

As a one off piece it means I can take my time over the art. I altered parts of the picture again and again until I felt pleased with the mage. ​
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I started by sketching out the idea:

​I was going to attempt to paint this straight onto the drawing conventionally, but I mucked it up! Luckily I had scanned the drawing first as a precaution, as I suspected it would be beyond my watercolour skills to pull this off on cartridge paper at such a small size. I had scanned the image at 600 dpi - the larger the better! So... in Photoshop I started to lay down a base layer of colour...

The start of the base colours in Photoshop.

Tawny owl at the start of the painting

Tawny in the finished piece

​I felt that I had created a problem with the monoliths in the clearing. I made the badger smaller and the monoliths larger. But after a deal of fiddling I decided to push the stones out into the distance and add the fox...

​Detail of the altered monoliths, with an added foxy: