Sketch

I usually use my own hands as reference and this was no excepption, don’t hide them, practice hands! It only gets easier.

I decided the witch needed a story, at least a small one always helps to add detail. First, I needed to arch her back a little more, I wanted it to look like the pumpkin was a little heavy, and added a bag as if she was back from shopping some witchy things from the market.

Search for reference pictures if you need to, I did for the feet pose. You don’t always have to do it, but if it feels like something looks off, you probably need to look for a reference.

Now let’s transfer this drawing to watercolor paper and clean it up.