I once took watercolor classes with a teacher in Colorado Springs, and a common painting exercise was to reproduce works by classic painters like Leonardo da Vinci and Michaelangelo. Thinking about those classes gave me an alternate idea for project 5; a personal twist on a well-known painting. I looked up a reference of this painting of Napoleon Bonaparte in the Alps and reproduced the pose, lighting and background as best I could, but with some original fiction characters me and my boyfriend came up with (the dragon is mine, the knight with the hat, monocle, and coffee cup is his). One thing I learned while doing this is that using the Wet Media brushes on different opacities along with the blur tool is a faster and more interesting way of shading color.
The steps of this painting went about thus:
1: Background. This was done freehand with the original painting as a reference.
2.: Sketch: Sketch in the two figures.
3: Base Color: Add in some sharper looking final lines and the main bodies of color. I tried to keep the lineart thinner to make it look more like a painting and less like a comic, but this turned out better on the dragon than it did on the knight.
4: Shading: Add in the shadows and highlights.
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