Chamber of Secrets: Watercolor Edition! (Agata Matteucci)

Can I say just how cool watercolor style is? Provoked by Kell's post looking for Eowyn pictures, I started looking through a page of LotR art. One of the most prominent artists had a series of awesome watercolor paintings, and I started thinking about CG equivalents. I looked through my "CG Inspiration" folder and found some watercolor HP art by a Japanese fan and decided to try my own. Line art by the fabulous Agata Matteucci.

Try it! It's fun! Grab the line art of your choice and set it to "multiply" and about 30% opacity. Then create a layer underneath (try limiting yourself to just one layer--it makes the process more interesting) and paint with the Airbrush set to "multiply" at about 20% opacity and 100% hardness. I found that really light colors seem to work well. Just keep going over everything a couple million times.

Well, I certainly enjoyed myself. Now it's your turn.