Lend Me Your Blade

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YAY! I finally managed to finish this one! I started the first sketch of it on the 20th of August, and I finished it yesterday! LOL

I wanted to work with watercolors for some time, and I felt like I should give a try to them again with this drawing.

The first thing I did was to search for toons of refferences for Lightning, since I didn't know in which kind of pose to draw her. I finally decided to draw her using her chrystarium to summon Odin, and then it's when the really headache came! xD.

My main idea was to draw Odin in his human form, but I couldn't find any good refferences for him, so I searched for a way to draw him in his horse form in the space that I had in blank. At first I thought I was gonna die because he has a lot of details! (and zippers, LOL), but I really like how it came out at the end.

I started to color thw background first: I did a blue gradient and then added some drops of red and dark blue watercolors, then I inclined the paper a bit tho get the effect of the falling drops. Finally, I mixed a bit of water with white acrylic to make it more liquid, and I used a big brush to make the white dots.

Painting the characters was I bit harder than I expected, since I didn't know how to get some of the colours!. I was also a bit confused about Odin's armor color...because sometimes is green, other is somekind of blue, and other times it has some gray tones! D:

Once I was done with painting everything, I mixed the white acrylic with water again and I used it to bring some light.

I couldn't scan the drawing since my scanner was too small and the paper was bigger! so I had to take a photo of it. I had to use Photoshop to straighten the drawing, editing the white zones and enhance the colours, since in the photo they came out pretty dark.

Tools Used:

•  2H pencil
• Watercolor Paper
• Pilot Black Ball
• Van Gogh watercolors
• White Acrylic
• Tissues
• Water
• Faber Castell colored pencills (to enhance some colors)

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I'm not an expert at using watercolors, but I'll give you some usefull advices:

1. Moisten some zones beafore adding the base color, it'll be easier for you to add it and it can give you some interesting effects, but be carefull not to add a lot of water! use a tissue to reduce it.

2. After adding another layer of colour, wait for the first one to dry, or it can ruin everything if you're not careful enough!