Thrilled about finding an art competition,  and even more thrilled that it was a no theme, this week! 

So I stuck to my much loved ocean theme. I find it suits my style very well.  Watercolor and ink.


![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/partiko.io/img/0b7c524a5d10c1d9376b521c1f53b34613cc4525.png)

so I've tried numerous ways of doing my art style, but I always end up preferring to do it with the watercolor first, and secondly the lineart or ink over it.



![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/partiko.io/img/ac849b21f7a60a3f3f5921d2f95c836e0283a970.png)

This was my initial sketch I did. it's always very loose, but composition and balance is what I'm looking for mostly at this stage. 


![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/partiko.io/img/dc220c52dd46e8682b1eb5f49d16467d1594b597.png)

Mr whale doesn't look very inviting at the watercolor stage either. but I'm making sure I know where I want my shading,  and I have  movement in color and shapes on the paper for my lines with the ink which is next. 


![](https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/partiko.io/img/ce4ed585ee98ddbb5a6ed091155ecf6299d749eb.png)

A close up of the ink linework .

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