Curse the Pre-Raphaelites!

For being so inspirational. I had planned on doing this as a pen and ink. A pen and ink, I tell you! And then I started reading about the PRB again and it turned into a painting. Not exactly a Pre-Raphaelite painting, true, but the fact that I went the watercolor route is entirely due to seeing really good artwork.

Interlude: because sometimes, you just have to.

I love cartooning and all, and am still working on the alphabet book. But after reading about the Pre-Raphaelites and visiting the Philadelphia Museum, I just had to get back into figure drawing. As I had only one thing to hand, I used it.

It started out in blue pencil. I added watercolor for the shadows, some slight additional color, and pastel highlights to bring it to a finish. Just a fairly quick sketch, but hopefully the beginning of more of this sort of thing.