Sebastien Berger
Quebec, Canada
Illustrator, cartoonist/comic book artist and plein air painter.
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Austin Worland
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4yr
added comment inLatests watercolor sketches
Those are awesome!!
Sebastien Berger
4yr
Thank you :)
Yiming Wu
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4yr
Those are looking cool! You really got the shape simplified into chunks and the subtle color patches are looking diverse. I never really got my hands on transparent way of painting but I guess I should try sometimes.
Thank you. It’s a fantastic medium for staying loose. The water has a mind of it’s own.
Emilio Aguero
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4yr
Hey Sebastien, great paintings! What's the backwards way of working?
Thank you. By that I meant starting with the lightest color and going darker and darker. Since watercolor is transparent paint, you have to think ahead of time where your highlights are going to be and let those parts be the white of the paper. You can’t go light over dark like other paints, unless you “cheat” a bit with gouache 😉
Hello everyone ! I thought I would post my latest art as my firt topic.
I have been practicing watercolor for a year and some months now and I’m having a blast. As soon as you get over the “backwards” way of working, it’s such a great medium. Especially to convey an idea quickly when doing plein air paintings.
These 2 are based on photos and like the title says, they are my latest 2.
Sebastien Berger
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4yr
Well...you are waaaayyyy ahead of my gesture/figure drawing skills (especially my 2 - 5 mins one lol) so I don’t know what to say except your are nailing it ! Very clear and lots of weight in them. I like them a lot, good job !
Thanks! I also have been surprised with how much I've improved during quarantine. All it takes is to make a routine and follow through with it and do some gesture drawing consistently! I guarantee that after a month of these (daily or every other day) you'll reach an awesome level as well
Sebastien Berger
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4yr
Very nice. I really like the strong graphic shapes you have in your drawings.
Really cool composition. I feel like the “sewer circle” is a bit too round or we are not looking up at Leonardo enough. They kinda bug my eye a little, like they are not quite on the same perspective. But I’m being picky here. Great drawing !
Thank you. Yeah, I think that I can see what you are saying. On first look, I think may showing less of the top plan of the pecs. Probably some changes to the head could also help to reinforce the perspective.
Here's a quick edit in Photoshop. Plus the quick 3D scene I made after my thumbnails to help with the perspective.
