Character Study!

So this is another character study of Molly, of In My Mother's Closet.  This one is in gouache, I've never done an image entirely in gouache and I really love the flat quality. It feels very solid. I did another one in watercolor that just didn't feel right and the previous Molly face in just some quick washes which I liked. 

Gouache turns out to be a medium I really like. The problem is if you want flat solid color you have to mix it prior and then fill it in and make sure you don't overlap with another color otherwise it will mix with the other color. Hence there is no painting over gouache, but that is only a small con for me. It is still much easier than watercolor which is very unforgiving.  Anyways, I think I will try doing an entire piece in gouache this time and post later. 

Molly, the mischievous and the fashionable

  So, I was trying to come up with a new character to play around with. It was originally intended as a character for a fashion blog I was working on, but maybe I'll do a book as well. I wanted a character that was sort of like me as a child. I was very mischievous and would love to go through all the closets and drawers in my apartment to find cool things. A majority of the time I found really cool stuff, like old long embroidered hand gloves, neat rhinestone jewelry, and long printed scarves. Occasionally I would find a hidden christmas present my mom was hiding which was always awesome. All of it was vintage and I'd love to play dress up and then my mom would see the mess I had made and would then scold me. Then I'd do it all over again the next day. So Molly had to be very mischievous and of course loves fashion. So here's the first Molly portrait.