As inspired by the film Ernest and Celestine (2012) I experimented with hand-drawing a setting and colouring it with watercolour paints.
I used this picture I took in Paris as a reference.
I tried to draw it very simply, only keeping a few main details.
I then painted the image. It didn't turn out very well since my paints aren't very pigmented. However I like the simplicity of using only a few colours (grey, blue and black). When digitally colouring my images I tend to use too many colours in one picture and it ends up looking slightly jarring.
I used Photoshop to enhance the colours in the image. I used varied solid colour layers but changed the opacity so that you could still see the watercolour texture. I like the way it looks, however I'm not sure how well it will fit with using flat design characters.
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