Continuing from the original idea of miniature acrobats, I love the harlequin pattern on one of them, so decided to expand upon it. Then I decided to try outlining in white, though these are not outlined, just given a space between painted areas.
Further back into Spring, you can see that I had continued to explore micro worlds, as I had thought of my miniature acrobats strolling or parading through this world, and not my original idea of cartoon insects. This is the first colour version, in pencil crayon. I used the inspiration from the wind and rain swept earth forms, shells, and crystals.
I started my first watercolour of combining both ideas as you can see from the character on the Penny-farthing bike: he's a miniature acrobat, and with the insect ballerinas, Ladybug balloon carriers, and a hedgehog for fun! Unfortunately, I did not like how the characters turned out in my sketch due to the rougher texture of the watercolour paper and mistakes made in the drawing execution. I hoped to scan this image and remove the characters.
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Then, while getting a new black pen, I saw coloured pens and thought I'd try outlining in different colours!! I love them, but the outline is too fine. Then I tried a new character, and outlined her in black and only her clothes in coloured line.
I wanted to have characters that were not seemingly only Caucasian, and thought of a bionic robot type of character and the ability to colour them all the rainbow and Bipoc colours as well! I still love the harlequin pattern! I tried to add white outline, but it wasn't as successful with the medium I used - onward with the journey of discovery!!
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