like sarah maycocks dog, i really like how Michelle Morin creates a wash of watercolour in a simple shapes to represent the whales, but by adding darker shades to shadow areas and important areas that need detail the whales becomes more recognisable and delicate. i like how detail is only added to important focal points, and the rest of the image relies on the simple water colour shape outline to describe the rest of the whales shape, i feel if the same level of detail was applied to the whole the visual quality would not be the same.
those these are not photo realistic i think there are just as effective.
the colours used in this pieces are all from a similar colour pallet so fit together nicely and subtly.
though i feel this style works brilliantly on animals, from testing out this technique myself using human form reference, i found it difficult to decide which areas where the most important to focus on on the human and add the detail and which to leave up to the wash to provide the impression of the figure as i feel the human form has a lot more aspects that need to be shown to show their likeness. e.g.- i found i couldn't just draw the eyes without drawing the mouth and lips in the same detail.
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