Wild Thing – Part 7 – The Chad Frye

Just a quick up-close and personal look at the colored pencil stage of my Where the Wild Things Are tribute watercolor painting for TerribleYellowEyes.com.

You can see that the Wild Thing’s skin received a variety of pencil colors applied in a hatching manner.

The background leaves only received a light purple outline that helped define them, yet remain in the background.

For the hair, I darkened some areas with an Indigo Blue pencil, and threw in some light purple highlights in other areas.

Here’s a horn with some purple pencil and some yellowish pencil and some brown for good measure. While the outline is dark, it’s still just a dark blue. The only black (whether paint or pencil) in the whole piece is in the pupils of the eyes.

And the arm. I have about four different pencil colors at work here. An orange, yellow, pale yellow, and purple.

Thanks for following along on these progress reports about my Wild Thing. One more post to go in which I’ll reveal those terrible yellow eyes!

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