Day 4 and ya girl I still going XD I actually finished this one yesterday and I think I am halfway done with my day 5 prompt so that's promising. I think if I didn't nap as much with the cat, I would be doing prompt 6 now... but oh well ;;w;; time with th cat and rest is a very important part of the weekend and I wouldn't have it any other way. Plus the prompt was an easy one this time XD I gave up trying to get tat creative with it yesterday and told myself "let's just take this literally for now" and I did! and I finished in just 2 hours total UwU
So day 4 is cactus and I made a cute cactus!
Materials: liquid ink, fineliners, neon pens
Duration: 2 hours
For my progress on this one, I didn't go full detail right away because I really wanted a nap XD so what I did i, I just penned I the shapes an then painted over them with the ink
So brown background and the little cactus balls
Then I added some depth and layered the colors a bit. I want to think I'm actually getting better at painting lately XD but I know I still need some work done to improve it. Anyway, this is the point where me and the cat had that nap 馃ぃ we love naps also by the time we were up and he was demanding an afternoon snack, it was fully dry and I got to pen it in a bit more
I started the pen details with a lot of basic hatching for depth with the fineliner then I just supplemented more colors with a green colored pen I had. It was cute and it emphasizesmd the color grading a bit more so I'll keep this technique handy for something similar in the future XD
But after much hatching and adding little spikes and highlights, I finished fairly fast for this one and I really liked how this came out too. Similar but still different from the snail one yesterday. Still soft though but this feels more like a raw, rough sketch on some travelling artist's sketchbook.
And now that I am done with prompt 4 ^^ I shall try to finish my prompt 5 today but I kinda doubt it since it's a bit more complicated than the last 2 ones I worked on 馃槄馃槄 and I kinda regret my choice but it is a mood. A very very solid and constant mood I have at work these days 馃ゲ
So that's all from me for now. I shall hopefully be back tomorrow to continue this attempt and if not, you guys know that work got me and did not let me escape 馃槶