J.Lo

 Found an ancient cut out magazine page of Jennifer Lopez and suddenly wanted to draw it. c: 

Sketched with HB 0.5 mechanical pencil and used grids. 

 Drew the lineart with Unipen black marker 0.1 and covered the lightest spots of the pic with masking fluid. Also, Ive given up on using old brushes, just use a wooden barbecue stick! :>

 Used a mix of yellow ochre, sepia and english red.

 Still the same mix, only added more english red.

 Same mix as before, but didnt dilute the colour.

   Added dark brown and dark red for the lips.

 Diluted yellow ochre~ 

 More ochre + sepia and red + brown tones on the shirt.

 

Carefully removed the masking fluid  and tried painting the darkest parts of hair with dark brown + purple.

 

 Worked everything over with ochre tones again...

...and finally overdrew almost all the black lines, corrected the hair a bit with white acrylic, some splatter, scan, colour adjustments and tadah~ :3

Underwater

As I've been obsessed with the underwater theme for some time, then here is the process of another watercreature aka a mermaid~ :3

 

 I remember I struggled quite long with the hands. :s But now its inked, scanned and ready for watercolours~

 First used some masking fluid. I guess everybody, who has used this liquid, knows way too well what it does to your brushes? :D I've noticed that its much better to use a wooden barbecue stick for applying this especially if you use the fluid for "drippy" white spots. ^^

 First layer of ink + salt. Used yellow, green and blue ink here.

 

 The second layer with watercolours + salt. Yup, double salty texture~

 More detailing and since I was pretty sloppy with the colouring, had to overdraw the main lines with black Unipin marker 0.1 and fixed some lines with white gel pen. (that water wasnt that blue at the bottom... damn camera.... D:)

Finally scanned and tried adjusting the colours as close to the original as I could. :)