Midterm Portfolio: 2 Traditional Line and Color Illustrations

I am assuming that by color it means watercolor, so that's what I'm going with. For me, this one was kind of a no brainer. The belly dancer with fire hands and drips radiating off of her was by breakout piece and... is still kinda the best thing I have done so far. This work did everything that I should have been doing all along, but hadn't. I would say that this was one that I struggled with a lot since it started off having the background that was true to the photo, but I decided that that looked a little crap, and gave it some experimental drips, which greatly worked in my favor. The second choice would have to be Grace Kelly. Even if it wasn't the best thing I have done, it was by far my favorite (and in my opinion, way better than those dice that I threw together in literally 7 min). I put a lot of thought and time into putting it together, and I really like the non local color choice, a decision I made because at the time I just couldn't get white people skin with watercolor. But I think that I used the line in an interesting way that most people wouldn't have thought of (and you said stippling would take too long, so I made that a personal challenge!). Also, just for the lols, I'll post the photo of the belly dancer that the illustration was based off of (which I also took).