Watching the Sun rise

This is what I REALLY did at 's Watercolor Workshop. I am rather pleased with it although I think Jenny wasn't. She came along every now and then (okay, let's get real: I was crying like a hysteric baby every know and then - as in every ten minutes - and she came over to aid me) and gave me some advice on it and the things I wanted to achieve - a night scene, dark colors, a fuzzy moth with dark coat and bright markings - have proven themselves to be VERY tricky in watercolor. At least for a beginner like me.

I ended up adding a dozen layers of color on Konstantin's body which made him look fuzzy, which is okay because - he is! But still it wasn't what I was supposed to learn, here.
I am still pleased with the outcome, color-wise, although this is exactly 12 hours of work. But in the end, I only used a polychromos to render the outlines, and nearly nothing more. Some fuzz fpr Kostjas shoulders but no shading with colored pencils at all, like I usually do out of despair.

For the lineart... well. I have to apologize. As Jenny's workshop was a COLORING workshop and not a drawing workshop, and I forgot to BRING some finished linearts to color, I had to rush this one in an hour or so. (I then spent the double amount of time with contemplating, panicking and despair before I dared to start actually painting...)
The result it, I left out Kostja's wings because they would have covered up too much of the nice composition. And... of yourse... the thought of placing the horse in_front_of_him was a nice idea, but as I only drew this cropped image as you see it here, I messed up the proportions of rider and horse COMPLETELY. I noticed but hadn't time to re-draw everything and so I decided, that this was a little derp horse standing on an apple box [link] as you see here, and this is also the reason Kostja looks so detached at it. >_>;
I also got the perspective of the saddle belt wrong and placed it way behind the place it should sit on the horse but only noticed when I had started painting. I removed the belt but there was no way to fix the positioning of the stirrups. So my apologies for that, but no worries, I already noticed. Same goes for the headpiece and the bridle... both looks rather odd, but I used no reference at all and I had five riding lessons so far. So it hasn't sink into my consciousness yet how those things really work. But, I do my very best. Promised.

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Media: watercolor and a wee bit of colored pencil
characters: Konstantin Nachtfalter, my archerontia atropos and his faithfull... derp horse on apple box.