I went back to my Harmony of Colours book (Book 4) over the weekend and picked out the lion to work on with my Prismacolor set. In my head, I envisioned a pair of flashing eyes in a strong color, the face in shades of warm browns, and the mane, also in shades of warm brown, but lighter.
It didn't quite turn out like that. I mean, I got the flashing eyes all right. And even did a commendable job (Ithink!) on the "emerald" jewels on the lion's forehead. But the choice of color for the face and the mane didn't quite work so well.
In fact, it was a disaster in need of correction at a subsequent coloring session. The face was at first done in browns that were too reddish and to clayey for a lion. Then I compounded the mistake by doing the mane in ... yes, lighter, colors, but the wrong lighter colors.
When I was done, the lion didn't look anything like a majestic beast of the Serengeti. Its mane came out in streaks of Canary Yellow and Pumpkin Orange. Definitely a ginger lion, haha. And then the yellows and orange clashed with the warm reddish browns near the face.
On my next slot of two hours of free time available, I set about doing a color correct. Added Sepia (a deep brown) and 70% French grey to tone down and deepen the too-raw orange and yellow respectively, and then added Golden Rod to tone down/add yellow to the too-red browns and too-grey French greys.
The following was the result:
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| The yellows are still arguably too yellow. but you should see the original. This was supposed to have been a dignified, tawny colored beast, ruler of the African plains. Sigh. Sorry. |
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