I'm still having trouble controlling the bleeding of these inks. As you can see, at the top of the shell, there was major bleeding. I've been blotting with paper towels trying to soak up any excess water or ink before it bleeds but it doesn't really work all that well.
I left this to dry and when I came back the inks had wicked out a lot. Its also really hard to get rid of those hard dry lines and if you want to put a lighter color on top of the darker ink it won't work. You'll have a dark ugly spot in your lighter area. You have to paint over it with the more opaque white, let it dry then paint over it, which also has its problems.
My first application of paint, is just to rough in the areas with a light wash of color, then I simply keep adding darker areas, until I'm happy. Apply highlights, white or light colors, after everything is dry.
I added the blue and brown/yellow areas (water/sand) last. You can see how the dark bleed area looks after applying blue to it. Not good. The turtle still looks okay but I'm going to have to work on bleeding areas.
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