Another paper test as an excuse to paint this wizard doing a little treasure hunting in a dark forest.
For this one I switched to a hot press, 100% cotton paper and instead of wrestling with lifting, got instead to fight with how aggressively absorbent the paper is! It’s wild how much water it will hold. Gouache doesn’t always like water, so this ended up being a very different experience!
The pencil crayon sat on top of the hot press paper much better, though, and I really like how I was able to get some cleaner linework in in addition to the more textured pencil crayon fills.
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