Bat-Joker
I did this for a friend as a (belated) birthday present. (Sorry for the delay, Dave!)
For those of you interested, below are the Step-By-Step for the painting above...
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STEP ONE: Here are the pencils for the Bat-Joker picture. I used a water-soluble, blue-gray colored pencil for the drawing. Originally, there was going to be a mash-up of the Bat symbol and a "J" for Joker, which I pencilled in.
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STEP TWO: Here is the first pass for watercolors/gouache (I use both interchangeably in most of my paintings), using a #12 size brush. I still left the the place to do the Bat-Joker symbol, but was still not sure if I liked it or not.
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STEP THREE: Shortly after I took the last picture, I decided I really didn't like the Bat-Joker symbol, as it looked too much like an umbrella and painted it over. I pushed some of the darks a little more, worked on some more details, and mostly finished the painting at this step.
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STEP FOUR: I thought it needed a little more to it, so I masked off the figure and spattered some red gouache in the background. Also, I mixed some Pro-White and yellow watercolor to make the "Ha! Ha! Ha!" and called it done, lest I keep messing with it 'til his next birthday comes and goes. :-D
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This was done with watercolor on 9" x 12" Fluid (#120) watercolor paper
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