Caterpillar In Ink and Watercolor

Lazy afternoon of the famous caterpillar, the one who lives in Wonderland. At the moment he's under the mashroom, Alice is nowhere close and the caterpillar doesn't have to play his role yet. Rough sketch of this illustration is made with watercolor pencils; later the lines will vanish almost completely, no need to erase them.

The most important shapes are redrawn and/or filled with ink. Two inks are used here, blue and umbra.

The paper has been wetted, and now the dark background is painted with the same two inks. I've tried to omit the mashroom and smoke puff areas as far as I could.

The first layer of watercolor is added.

Now the caterpillar and foreground leaves are filled with thicker paint. A few blades of grass are added behind the mashroom, and opaque white ink helps to make a few tiny details brighter.