POKA DOT-Z

What girl doesn't love a good poka dot?

Obviously, this piece is inspired by the common poka dots and all its cute wonders at how versatile it is in both color and fashion. 

This drawing I did back in March, planning to paint in watercolors, but was switched to a Photoshop painting due to the small size (9x12in.) and my inexperience in watercolors. It has been a joy and wonder. Deciding on the technique I would use for this. In the end I decided to go with a simple round brush and layering everything with a normal-mode layers and using the opacity of the brushes to create shading. The poka dots are all made from different techniques from simply putting down dots, to putting down the color first then creating dots with the eraser tool. Then different sizes were used so there would be more contrast between each girl.

Value is still an issue for me, but I don't feel that brings this piece down because of that.

Its so much fun to work with these characters as they are my best friends, and being able to bring out their characteristics through stationary actions and clothing compositions.